The French Finance Ministry announced today that it is to issue the first ever long dated, 30 year Government Bond linked to the Eurozone inflation rate. It expects the bond to be particularly attractive to pension funds, life companies, and
Credit Suisse First Boston announced effective today that CSFB's Liquid Global Fixed Income Indices are now available on Bloomberg. CSFB customers who are Bloomberg users are able to access all of CSFB's liquid bond indices, including the Liquid U.S. Corporate
Barclays Capital and Schroder Salomon Smith Barney (SSMB) have joined MTS Ireland. This takes the total number of market makers in Irish government bonds on EuroMTS to nine. Barclays Capital and SSMB, which has also become an official Primary Dealer
BrokerTec Clearing Company, L.L.C.(BCC), the clearing affiliate of BrokerTec Futures Exchange L.L.C. (BTEX), announced today the appointment of Frank Perrone from Deutsche Bank Futures, Inc. as Chairman and Ronald Filler from Lehman Brothers Inc. as Vice Chairman. Perrone has over
Activity on the SENAF repo trading platform in Madrid exceeded expectations when the market opened today, with a volume of over Euros 1 billion being traded. "The volume reflected a positive response from SENAF market members, providing liquidity and narrow
Allied Irish Banks confirmed today that it is in discussions with a U.S. bank in relation to a possible partnership involving Allfirst Financial Inc. A further statement will be issued in due course, it said.
In an announcement anticipated for some time, the German Finance Agency (Bundesrepublik Deutschland Finanzagentur GmbH) finally confirmed today that it would make its holdings of Bunds available to the market through Clearstream. This huge augmentation of liquidity in German government
Deutsche Brse today launched a new service to help its participants analyse their trading behaviour and manage and control the risks they assume as a result. The new product is a database application based on the daily updated StatistiX data
BrokerTec claimed today that, following its launch of Swedish bond trading, it has now become the only electronic trading platform to serve all fourteen European Union government bond and repo markets. Alongside existing basis trading and spreads functionality, clients can
Bayerische Landesbank has chosen the Algo Collateral software application developed by Algorithmics to manage their cross product margining requirements. "We needed a proven cross product margining application to automate and improve the operational aspects of our existing Repo margining processes,