MutualFundWire.com: Fink Scraps BlackRock's Planned Corporate Bond Platform
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Fink Scraps BlackRock's Planned Corporate Bond Platform


BlackRock [profile] customers will not be able to trade corporate bonds on the companies platform, as the firm has cancelled plans to attempt to expand into that business, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

According to reporters Kirsten Grind and Telis Demos, sources close to the situation say the testing phase of the effort went poorly, with only a few trades taking place each day.

Instead of developing its own platform, BlackRock will announce that clients will be able to trade through MarketAxess Holdings Inc., the story says.

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