Reuters Trading for Fixed Income to Go Live in Brazil

RTFI currently features tradable prices from fourteen leadingfixed income banks with another fifteen expected to go live this year.Over the coming months, leading fixed income price makers are expectedto add Brazilian domestic bonds and instruments to RTFI, bringingprice takers a comprehensive service encompassing both internationaland national instruments.

The first price taker to go live on RTFI in South America wasCredit Suisse Asset Management, which expects to grow its globalliquidity for all fixed income international instruments. Carlos Buenofrom Credit Suisse comments: "Reuters unifies its global expertise inproviding content and electronic trading for the fixed income marketin Brazil, through an easy and reliable platform."

Ricardo Diniz, Managing Director of Reuters Brazil, believes RTFIwill grow liquidity by connecting market makers and market takers. Hesaid: "The launch of RTFI in Brazil reinforces the importance of thelocal and international fixed income market. It will result in thegrowth of access to liquidity and volumes being traded."

Reuters held an RTFI launch event for the Brazilian market onThursday, May 18th in Sao Paulo at Unique Hotel which featured a paneldiscussion around the fixed income market with panelists from theBrazilian National Treasury, Central Bank, Banco Itau and DeustcheBank.

Note to editors:

Reuters Trading for Fixed Income allows price takers easy accessto consolidated liquidity, currently offering them access toexecutable prices in over 15,000 instruments, including EuropeanGovernments, US Treasuries, Corporates and Emerging Market debt, in 31currencies across 30 countries. RTFI is available over Reuters 3000Xtra, the company's flagship desktop which provides real-time news,data, analysis tools and high quality executable prices from leadingglobal liquidity providers.

With its single sign-on, Reuters Trading for Fixed Income supportsflexible trading models for both single dealer and multi dealertrading and allows portfolios and workspaces to be customised tofacilitate quick decision making. In addition, it also provides accessto clearly defined price classification - firm, indicative, closed,suspended - to indicate the trading quality of a price.

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