Retail Bonds

In the current economic climate, investors are increasingly looking beyond traditional equity to other asset classes as they search for higher yield. And with continued uncertainty across the financial markets, the security of fixed income instruments, with their regular coupon payments providing a steady income stream, are proving highly attractive to private investors.

With the launch of our new trading service for bonds we aim to respond to private investor demand for an electronic bond market by providing the liquidity and transparency needed to trade in and out of fixed income securities. Our aim is to offer greater access to trading in individual bonds for private investors as they manage and develop their own investment strategies.

An initial offering of gilts and corporate bonds, tradable in small, more easily manageable denominations, from our existing range of listed bonds are now available for trading on the new electronic Order book for Retail Bonds (ORB).