This case study reviews one of the world’s most comprehensive electronic bond trading systems -- Deutsche Bank’s electronic bond trading offering, Autobahn.

Deutsche Bank has developed a system that allows the bank’s clients to receive live, executable prices for about 5,000 fixed income securities, denominated in 20 currencies. In addition to viewing these prices, clients can use Autobahn to execute their trades for these securities. The system was first deployed in 1996, and the past two years have seen significant extensions in the range of functionality and delivery channels offered.

The case study reviews the technologies used for the deployment, the delivery channels supported, as well as analyzing trade volumes that pass through Deutsche Bank’s e-bond trading systems.