Tabb Report: Illiquid Bond Pricing is "World's Most Complex Sudoku Puzzle"

The Tabb report─which surveyed a selection of the major bond data providers to establish the current state of fixed income market data against a backdrop of increased electronic bond trading and regulatory change─found that data vendors must leverage a wide array of datasets including metadata such as issuance size, credit ratings, region, reference data and benchmarks to provide the context necessary to price illiquid fixed income instruments in a more accurate and timely manner.

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