Despite availability of interested buyers, the government securities have not been traded at all in the last three trading sessions, including Sunday, market operators said.
They said only two trades were executed on debut of the much-hyped securities on Tuesday last.
The market operators attributed it to investors' lack of knowledge, insufficient training of market operators and inherent complexities in trading such a new instrument.
"Some buyers have contacted us to know about the treasury bonds (T-Bonds) while the sellers are less interested. That's why no trade was executed following the debut trading," said a senior executive of a leading brokerage house that executed the debut trading.
He said investors and many market operators are not fully aware of the T-Bonds.
"Many investors do not have complete information on the tenure and coupon rates of the T-Bonds. Awareness will have to be increased," said the official.
On debut, trades of the units of two bonds worth Tk 1,004,390 were executed in Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) while the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed the trades of units worth Tk 105,190.
"The sellers still require taking clearance from the central bank to sell their securities. Some formalities to facilitate easy transfer of the T-Bonds remain incomplete," said DSE Chairman Md. Eunusur Rahman.
He said the T-Bond is still a new product for the investors who are accustomed with daily trading of equities.
"Investors will have to be informed about the government securities at a large scale along with resolving the complexities, if any," said Mr Rahman.
He said the securities regulator, the central bank and the market operators would sit soon to address the problems hindering the regular trading of the government securities.
There is enough demand for the government securities and both demand and supply sides of the T-Bonds will have to be streamlined, he added.
Asked, Mohammad Rezaul Karim, an executive director of the securities regulator, said the transfer process of the T-Bonds to the investors' BO accounts is yet to be smooth.
Presently, there are 250 T-Bonds listed with both stock exchanges of the country.
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