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Deutsche’s Autobahn bond trading platform celebrated its fifth birthday in Europe this year. Clients get live prices on about 5,000 securities in some 20 currencies. An appealingly straightforward inventory-based system, Autobahn has won plaudits for the quality of its pricing and the breadth of securities it carries, which run across the credit spectrum. A high proportion of the bank’s bond trading volumes are executed electronically. Deutsche Bank delivers Autobahn through several channels, including Bloomberg, the internet, and its API, which went live in October 2003.

For buy-side clients, TradeWeb remains the most important single channel for liquidity in the government bond market. In US treasuries, over 65,000 trades a month are executed through the platform, with an average daily volume of over $20 billion. On one day in July, dealers traded $44.8 billion-worth of US treasuries. Trading in European sovereigns increased 86% to e509 billion between the first half of 2002 and the first half of 2003. Average daily volume has hit e4.2 billion.

In June, the 11-member Executives Meeting of East Asia-Pacific (EMEAP) central banks announced the birth of the $1 billion Asian Bond Fund 1 (ABF1) - something few market observers expected to see so soon.

Highly commended: UBS

? Running a company is a thankless task now that chairmen and CEOs are regarded with suspicion not admiration. In a further affront, in the UK at least, any CEO who makes a deal to become chairman of a merged company may well face the chop.

Internet awards 2003: Back office takes control

Highly commended: UBS

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Highly commended: Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein

Highly commended: Citigroup, Barclays Capital, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank

If you are a corporate bond fund manager and have not yet heard of Clovis, the chances are you will very soon.

Most banks keep their forex risk analysis tools in the forex research and analytics portal, and fixed-income tools in a special fixed-income site. Some banks update the data that informs these tools every 10 minutes. Some update it daily. By luck or by design, CSFB has chosen to keep hundreds of analytics tools in an enormous range of instruments all in one place – and all updated in real time.