Liquidnet Adds Emerging Market Bonds to Trading Platform

Liquidnet, the global institutional trading network, announced that it has added emerging market bonds to its institutional Fixed Income trading platform. This latest addition comes amid growing institutional investor appetite for emerging markets bonds as they seek to diversify their portfolios and access growth opportunities in fixed income markets outside of North America and Europe. Liquidnet’s member firms can now trade bonds issued by corporations domiciled in emerging markets, as well as emerging markets government bonds in both hard and local currency. Six local markets have been included in the initial launch Mexico, Turkey, South Africa, Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland, with additional markets to be added in the coming year.