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No, I think they are competing for dark venues (if they are really trying to compete with sell-side). For example, most primes have internalization services, because their clients might be going the opposite direction. Also, they offer to trade on-swap directly, so quant firms like that better. It's a pretty niche but one of the big ticket sources of revenue for prime brokers.