TradingScreen Powers SGX's Bond Trading Platform

SGX partners with TradingScreen to deploy SGX Bond Pro, the first OTC trading venue dedicated to Asian Bonds

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Dec 10, 2015, 06:15 ET

SINGAPORE and NEW YORK, Dec. 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Singapore Exchange (SGX) today announced the successful launch of SGX Bond Pro, the first OTC trading venue dedicated to Asian Bonds, which is powered by TradingScreen's Galaxy global fixed income platform infrastructure.

TradingScreen, the leading independent provider of liquidity, trading, and investment technology via SaaS, was selected as SGX Bond Pro's technology platform provider in 2014, and provides infrastructure available in SaaS or as an implemented application.

SGX Bond Pro connects buyers and sellers of Asian bonds and provides them with multiple trading protocols that cater to their liquidity needs. The trading protocols were developed in consultation with the industry to facilitate how participants, including accredited investors such as global asset managers, private and investment banks, want to access liquidity.

SGX Bond Pro has additional functionality designed to achieve greater efficiencies in trading and settlement. With sophisticated tools to access liquidity through quote-driven and order-driven trading protocols including auctions, crossing, RFQ and RFS, the platform adapts uniquely to the new liquidity reality of the fixed income market. It also adapts to the particular characteristics of Asian bond market, which is the largest growth market for fixed income securities.

All market participants have the choice to access the new venue through multiple interfaces from a high level, fast FIX API, a state-of-the-art, intuitive award winning HTML5 user interface.

Muthukrishnan Ramaswami, the President of SGX, said, "SGX Bond Pro is indicative of our strategy to innovate and build infrastructure where there is a clear market demand. It also demonstrates our ability to develop solutions that address the liquidity challenge in the Asian bond market. We continue to receive positive feedback from the market and we hope that a strong community will anchor itself around this innovative platform. The partnership with TradingScreen has offered SGX the opportunity to offer a world class trading venue in record time."

Philippe Buhannic, CEO of TradingScreen, says, "This launch is the start of a revolution in fixed income trading in Asia and represents a significant milestone in the fixed income market, as well as, a technology breakthrough. The single trading model that the market has been using over the past decade has proved limited in handling the demands of the buy-side. In the future, liquidity management will become central to the market evolution and SGX Bond Pro has been launched as a significant liquidity solution. We are confident that both the buy and sell-side will be quick to recognize its unique value."

TradingScreen has earned numerous awards for its innovation on this project and is delighted to have again brought its unique and extensive expertise in global multi-asset trading to the Asian fixed income market.

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About TradingScreen
TradingScreen is the leading independent provider of liquidity, trading, and investment technology via SaaS to the financial community. TradingScreen's goal is to simplify the complexity of markets, by consolidating all investment workflows for exchange-traded and OTC instruments on a single platform. TradingScreen brings the major, global sell-side participants, leading regional brokers and the largest Buy side firms to a common environment, delivering market access, order- and liquidity-management and Investment services. The benefit to clients is an exceptional reach across counterparties, asset classes, and geography, and a full integration of services front to back. TradingScreen was named the Best Fixed Income Trading Platform in 2014 by Wall Street Letter for the second consecutive year, in addition to winning numerous awards for best trading technology. TradingScreen provides global coverage from offices in Boston, Chicago, Geneva, Hong Kong, London, New York, Paris, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo. For more information on TradingScreen, go to http://www.tradingscreen.com.