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[ B U Y- S I D E has two traders in London – with a third due in the near future – and two in Hong Kong. The move to a global approach al- lows the asset manager to be curren- cy agnostic when executing trades. And, like many other asset managers, I N T E R V I E W | J I M S W I T Z E R ] AllianceBernstein is trying to run the business as lean as it can. This leads to the next big change—technology. Fixed income investors have always been slower to embrace technology than their equity counterparts. But the fluctuations in the business since Issue 52 TheTradeNews.com 19