BPI Annual Conference: Fixed Income Pricing Market Structure, Data & Technology

Topics of Discussion

• Evaluated Pricing — What is driving innovation among evaluated pricing providers? How can pricing services use data and technology to ensure at-the-market valuations?
• Electronic Trading & Transparency — What is the state of fixed-income market liquidity? What evolutionary issues are driving the expansion of electronic trading? Will institutional trading in spread products become more electronified?
• Other Bond Price Types: Dealer Quotes/BWICs etc. — Is pre-trade transparency in the fixed income markets important to evaluated pricing?
• Use Cases: Analytics, Indices, Etc. — Is the US municipal market well served by the pricing benchmarks that are widely available? What are the benefits and applications for evaluated pricing outside regulatory compliance?
• Trade Reporting — Would one-minute trade reporting as proposed by the MSRB and FINRA be helpful to the market? What can FINRA and the MSRB do to improve the quality, usefulness, and accessibility of the trade data they collect?

More information to come!