AI Bots Are Transforming Bond Markets, Barclays Warns of Volatility Risk
THE SO WHAT
If AI agents are on track to trade up to 65% of US investment-grade bonds, microstructure risk becomes a software problem as much as a macro one. Risk teams should be asking counterparties—and their own desks—how agent behavior is monitored, throttled, and stress-tested under liquidity shocks.
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