Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Creditex Starts Automated Service to Trade Credit-Default Swaps in Bulk

(Bloomberg) -- Credit derivatives broker Creditex
Inc. is starting an automated service that shortens the time it
takes to trade large blocks of credit-default swaps.

The trading platform, called Q-WIXX, will allow investors
to buy or sell electronically groups of as many as 200 different
credit-default swaps, according to Sunil Hirani, chief executive
officer at New York-based Creditex. Bulk transactions of the
contracts, used to bet on a company's ability to repay debt, can
be done in minutes rather than hours, Creditex said.


Read more at Bloomberg Bonds News

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

need third party access to trade this ? (from the banks)