Analysis-Three years after DirectBooks, US bond market still phoning it in

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"But, we have great momentum and have made material improvements to the primary markets workflow," he added. Orders are then logged by salespeople into their internal order portals or a system called IssueBook. Three years into it, only a small proportion of orders and allocation messages for a new bond were going through DirectBooks. A vast majority of such communication is still through legacy systems that require manual involvement, said four syndicate banking sources.

المملكة العربية السعودية أحدث الأخبار, المملكة العربية السعودية عناوين