Dealer board

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an old-fashioned, but nonetheless highly sophisticated, telephone system used on investment bank trading desks. When on a dealer board one never uses ones own name. One answers the phone in a faceless monotone, by the name of your employer. You just do.

A dealerboard features in the apocryphal Goldman story.