In Brief: State St. Automates Fixed-Income Trading

State Street Corp. Wednesday unveiled Bond Connect, an electronic execution system developed with Bridge Information Systems and Net Exchange.

Bond Connect was developed to tap the potential for an automated trading environment in fixed-income securities. Combined U.S. fixed-income trading reached nearly $80 trillion in 1997. Industry analysts predict 10% of this volume will be traded electronically by 2000.

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