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UK Financial Watchdog Asks for Bond Tape Suspension to Be Lifted

The Financial Conduct Authority has applied to a London court for permission to lift the suspension on a major bond data initiative.
Plans to build a so-called consolidated tape, bringing all bond trading data in the UK into one single stream, were put on holdBloomberg Terminal in September due to a legal challenge. It meant the contract awarded to Etrading Software was automatically suspended due to UK public procurement law.




