RW Baird Taps Magenta Bond Benchmarks as Bloomberg Completes BMRK Integration

The financial firm can now use the Magenta Line pricing tool more fully now Bloomberg has integrated it into its trading platforms.i

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Bloomberg quietly acquired the Magenta Line automated pre-trade price discovery tool from real-time fixed income pricing startup Benchmark Solutions for an undisclosed sum, after Benchmark failed to generate enough business and closed down. Officials decline to comment on details of the acquisition, or whether any staff or other technologies were included as part of the deal, though the vendor confirms that there are no remaining “standalone” customers of the service.

The vendor has spent the

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‘Feature, not a bug’: Bloomberg makes the case for Figi

Bloomberg created the Figi identifier, but ceded all its rights to the Object Management Group 10 years ago. Here, Bloomberg’s Richard Robinson and Steve Meizanis write to dispel what they believe to be misconceptions about Figi and the FDTA.

Where have all the exchange platform providers gone?

The IMD Wrap: Running an exchange is a profitable business. The margins on market data sales alone can be staggering. And since every exchange needs a reliable and efficient exchange technology stack, Max asks why more vendors aren’t diving into this space.

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