据说，银行建立起来的市场实际上是它们的内测市场，主要功能是方便银行及其客户对某些金融工具进行定价 — — 没有市场交易，这种定价通常是不可能的。
The banks themselves established what in effect were their own substitute markets, which allowed their customers and themselves to price instruments that would otherwise have been impossible to value.