e-trading: Dealers hedge themselves

TradeWeb sells minority stake to nine banks, as LiquidityHub gets going.

In October, Thomson Financial finally revealed that nine dealer banks had bought a minority stake in its TradeWeb debt trading platform. The move, one of the worst-kept secrets in the trading technology sector (see The coming revolution in fixed income e-trading Euromoney, August 2007), gives strong signals about future likely distribution channels of fixed-income product. Furthermore, it bolsters TradeWeb’s position just as another dealer consortium – LiquidityHub – gets up and running. LiquidityHub started trading interest rate swaps late last month.

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