Debt Market round-up: LIFFE’s long shot

Euronext.liffe makes an attempt to regain a foothold in derivative futures trading at the long end of the European bond curve this month when it launches a new range of bond futures based on the whole eurozone and the largest eurozone countries – Germany, France and Italy.

Unlike a classic bond future, which entails physical delivery of an underlying at the settlement date, the products Euronext.liffe has created include several total return futures contracts based on the EuroMTS government bond indices.

Dealer-to-customer cash bond trading in the government sector is dominated by EuroMTS, so if the futures contracts attracted liquidity they could provide a powerful hedging or speculative tool for dealers and other market participants.

However, eurozone bond futures liquidity currently resides with the Eurex Bund contract.

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