How I Invest with David Weisburd

E211: Disrupting The $100 Trillion Bond Market

Sep 10, 2025
Dylan Parker, CEO & Co-Founder of Moment, discusses revolutionizing the bond market, which still lags behind equities in tech adoption. He shares insights from his time at Citadel, highlighting how automation can drastically improve trading efficiency. Parker explains the unique tax advantages of bonds and introduces Moment's platform that allows for rapid portfolio customization. With a focus on serving diverse investors, he emphasizes the transformative potential of smart routing and automation in fixed income trading.
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INSIGHT

Fixed Income Is Large And Late To Tech

  • The fixed income market is huge but lagged equities by decades and only recently electrified.
  • Moment builds the software layer that enables electronic trading, portfolio construction, and analytics for bonds.
ANECDOTE

Citadel Origins Sparked Moment

  • Dylan recounts starting at Citadel with no fixed income experience and learning by building automated trading systems.
  • That experience showed him automation could make bond traders 25–50× more efficient and enabled new capabilities.
ADVICE

Automate Execution With Smart Routing

  • Use smart order routing to access multiple fixed-income venues and capture best available price automatically.
  • Automate execution to avoid manual browsing of exchanges and reduce trade friction and time.
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