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This team gives market color and truly acts in a hybrid manner.” MTS has added additional headcount to the desk to help clients who prefer to trade via the telephone but want MTS to enter their orders electronically. ![Mark Monahan, MTS Markets International](https://static.hsstatic.net/BlogImporterAssetsUI/ex/missing-image.png) Mark Monahan, MTS Markets International “They are a bridge between traditional phone trading and pure electronic brokerage,” he said. “Many customers love having the extra attention, especially on their larger trades.” The desk may handle telephone-based requests; it seldom executes a voice trade itself, according to Monahan, who estimates that 999 out of 1,000 trades are done electronically. The platform operator also has seen a trading uptick from firms using its API. Monahan attributes the increased volume coming from platform aggregators instead of high-frequency traders and believes that market aggregation in the corporate bond market only will continue to grow. MTS also in the midst of rolling out trading of USD-denominated corporate bonds to the European markets, Monahan added. The alternative trading system already offers such trading in the UK and Switzerland. 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