EMBonds

EMBonds is an electronic trading platform for Emerging Markets bonds. The platform can be used by institutional investors such as mutual fund managers, hedge fund managers, private banks, and investment banks to access liquidity in corporate and sovereign issues, both local and hard currency. The company was founded by Mehmet Artun and Kerim Acanal two former Emerging Markets fixed income traders with over 15 years trading experience each. Having worked both as a market maker and portfolio manager, the founders set out to improve access to secondary market liquidity by making it easier for international investors to access local market liquidity. EMBonds is backed by Earlybird, a venture capital fund based in Germany and International Finance Corporation part of the World Bank Group.