Reuters' outage feeds rival volumes

It is understood the outage prompted Reuters to shut down the platform's servers at 2205 GMT on Sunday July 22 for emergency maintenance.

"We tackled the problem occurring on Sunday night immediately, and full service was restored on the Matching on Reuters platform as quickly as possible," a spokesperson at Reuters said.

Rival EBS, owned by broker Icap, saw a "significant increase in activity" on the back of dealers switching to alternative platforms during the outage, market sources said, with a

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