SEC to Hold Fixed Income Roundtable

The SEC announced that it will hold a roundtable on April 16 to discuss potential ways to improve the transparency and efficiency of fixed income markets. The roundtable will focus on the corporate bond market and the municipal securities market, which was the subject of a July 2012 SEC report.

The 2012 Report on the munis market made a variety of recommendations to improve pre-trade and post-trade price transparency, and to strengthen brokers' existing obligations to provide investors with best execution and fair pricing. The roundtable will provide a forum for in-depth discussion of these and other ideas to enhance the munis market as well as explore the extent to which those recommendations could be applied to the corporate bond market.

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