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title: Cross Trading Corporate Bonds
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/5263491/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
index: https://www.ml-quant.com/llms.txt
identifier: SSRN 5263491
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5263491
featured: 2025-05-30
citations: unknown
topic: Trading, Microstructure & Execution
---


# Cross Trading Corporate Bonds

The study finds that mutual funds often cross-trade in corporate bonds, which is beneficial during stressful times, but new regulations have reduced the associated cost savings.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5263491
- Identifier: SSRN 5263491
- Released: 2025-05-21
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 99 (2025-05-30): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2025-05-30/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Trading, Microstructure & Execution

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