MTS announces integration of BondVision With BLOOMBERG AIM

MTS announces that its BondVision premier Multidealer-to-Client market for fixed income trading is now available via the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL service. Bloomberg, the world leader in financial data, news and analytics has rolled out a BondVision FIX interface on the Bloomberg AIM Portfolio Order Management System.

This new integration enables clients of Bloomberg AIM to seamlessly send fixed income block trades for execution to the BondVision market and to transmit the allocations originated in the order management system.

The trades are executed by means of outright, switch and butterfly request for quotes sent to up to five BondVision Dealers. Following execution, BondVision enriches the trades with standard settlement instructions and records of best execution streamlining the trade processing.

Chris Hodder, head of Trading Systems at Bloomberg, said: "As a broker-neutral platform, Bloomberg AIM delivers liquidity options that allow Bloomberg users to achieve maximum trading efficiency. The integration of BondVision on Bloomberg AIM will bring substantial benefits to our institutional European clients by increasing the liquidity they can access over Bloomberg in a secure electronic fashion.”

Fabrizio Testa, Head of Product Development in MTS, said: “The need for swift execution and flawless trade processing has never been greater as investors are facing unprecedented volatile market conditions and are managing diverse portfolios to improve margins and hedge their exposure. Our link with Bloomberg POMS represents one of the initiatives that extend the connectivity between our premier execution system to pre and post trading portfolio management systems.”

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Notes to Editors:

MTS Group

The group of MTS companies, part of the London Stock Exchange Group, collectively comprises Europe’s premier electronic market in fixed income securities with daily volumes exceeding €85 billion (single counted). The MTS model utilizes a common trading platform, although regulatory responsibility remains under the jurisdiction of the relevant domestic competent authorities.

The group of companies include the following wholesale markets: EuroMTS, EuroCredit MTS, NewEuroMTS, EuroGlobalMTS, MTS Quasi-Government Market, Eurobenchmark Treasury Bills Market, EuroMTS Linkers Market, MTS Cedulas Market, MTS Amsterdam, MTS Austrian Market, MTS Belgium, MTS Denmark, MTS Deutschland, MTS España, MTS Finland, MTS France, MTS Greek Market, MTS Ireland, MTS Israel, MTS Italy, MTS Poland, MTS Portugal and MTS Slovenia. The group also includes BondVision, the Internet-based multi-dealer-to-client platform and MTSNext, the company that manages the EuroMTS Indices, the first range of independent, transparent, real-time and tradable eurozone fixed income indices.

Tradable products on the MTS markets comprise Austrian, Belgian, Brazilian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Cypriot, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Israeli, Italian, Lithuanian, Mexican, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovakian, Slovenian, South African, Spanish, Turkish and Venezuelan government bonds; quasi government bonds such as EIB, KfW, Freddie Mac and CADES; Pfandbriefe, Obligations Foncières, Cédulas, Irish ACS; Dutch, Italian, UK and US covered bonds and EONIA swaps.

More information is available on www.mtsmarkets.com