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A dealer regularly handles equity security trades and fixed income transactions for a retail client. The client requests a currency transaction for 250,000 Canadian dollars (CAD) and Czech korunas (CZK), an uncommon pairing and a relatively small transaction size. The dealer prepares a bid/ask quote for the client. Which of the following factors would most likely lead to a tighter spread between the bid and ask for the transaction?