MTS Finland, the Finnish arm of the electronic bond trading network, has launched a facility that will allow the Finnish State Treasury to buy back Finnish government bonds.

The buy-back facility will mean the government can post bids and lift offers displayed by the primary dealers of Finland through a specific market segment on the system. It will extend the trading activity of the MTS, which has so far been contained in the secondary market, to the primary market. The buy-back facility already operates on the Belgian segment of MTS.