The New York Stock Exchange is planning to start trading corporate bonds in a big way, not exactly as it did back in 1792 when the exchange started, but on a new electronic trading platform. According to The Wall Street Journal, the exchange is jockeying for a bigger share of the bond market, currently largely serviced by large investment banks, by aiming to quadruple the 1,000 bond issues as a way of making the exchange a "one-stop shop" for all types of investors. Over the past two decades, the NYSE has shied away from bonds mainly because of complexities associated with them.