Liquidnet Launches Primary Markets Offering with Goal to Electronify the Full Life Cycle of a Bond

Liquidnet, the global institutional investment network, announced the launch of Liquidnet Primary Markets, a new offering providing an electronified Debt Capital Markets (DCM) workflow for new issue announcements alongside a new protocol for trading new issues. Integrated into the existing Liquidnet Fixed Income trading application, the DCM workflow provides a dashboard of new issue announcements. It will also be available to non-trading desk users, such as portfolio managers, analysts, and compliance teams, through a web-based portal. The New Issue Trading protocol enables Members to trade new issues in the European investment grade, high yield and emerging bond markets, and in the US, in emerging bond markets.