Agentenbasierter Rentenhandel

In bond markets, most trades are conducted via bilateral negotiations or the use of brokers.Especially in the case of large blocks, the anonymity of the traders is very important. In a jointproject of Deutsche Börse AG, Compaq Computer GmbH, living systems AG and the chair ofInformation Systems of the University of Giessen, a trading system was modelled and implementedwhich allows the identification of potential trading partners within an anonymous market. Softwareagents represent the orders and try to match both, products and partners. Alternative pricingmechanisms were realised. The architecture is based upon the FIPA-specification. The system wasmodelled object-oriented and implemented in Java.