Credit Information Overload – The Desk 

The inability to process pricing data for corporate bonds is preventing buy-side traders from finding real opportunities to trade. Data is readily available; broker-dealers, specialists data aggregators, TRACE, Bloomberg data and benchmark providers all give guidance on where a price may be. In fact there is too much of it. The quality of that information is highly variable, the volume provided by dealers is increasing, and the absence of a standard format makes it hard to compare.