Debt trading poll 2006: Which firms are the best debt traders and why?

Euromoney’s inaugural debt trading poll gives unprecedented insights into the increasingly complex derivatives-led world of debt trading.

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Trading: the future

Who and what we asked

Methodology

Debt poll of polls: Customer votes reveal the new big three

Alex Chambers weighs up the data.

YOU MIGHT NOT have noticed it but the old Eurobond trader is dead. Not physically but in spirit. In the space of six years, European debt market trading has mutated from the straightforward high-grade Eurobond into a credit-intensive, derivative-led sector that bears little resemblance to its precursor.

The new bond trader is a completely different animal, and should be able to far better understand credit, capital structures and balance sheets than any of his or her predecessors were if he or she wants to remain competitive.

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