Citi provide world-class financing solutions that are as diverse as the needs of the consumer, corporates, institutions, governments, and individual investors we serve in 160 countries and territories. The breadth, depth, and strength of our underwriting, sales and trading, and distribution capabilities span asset classes and currencies, sectors and industries, covering a vast array of products. Our research and analysis offer the highest-quality corporate, sector, economic, and geographical insights — from equity and fixed income research to market and product analysis — helping individual and institutional clients navigate a complex global marketplace. Further information can be found at www.citigroup.com

Eurex is the leading European derivatives exchange and one of the leading global central counterparties. We are the architect of market liquidity, efficiency, and integrity, by providing innovative solutions to seamlessly manage risk. On the trading side, we offer a range of international benchmark products, operating the most liquid fixed income markets in the world, and featuring open and low-cost electronic access. As central counterparty, Eurex Clearing builds trusted relationships with and among market participants, paving the way for efficient risk management via unique clearing models. Eurex Repo is a leading provider of international financing in the secured money market.

Tradeweb Markets Inc. (Nasdaq: TW) is a leading, global operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money markets. Founded in 1996, Tradeweb provides access to markets, data and analytics, electronic trading, straight-through-processing and reporting for more than 40 products to clients in the institutional, wholesale and retail markets. Advanced technologies developed by Tradeweb enhance price discovery, order execution and trade workflows while allowing for greater scale and helping to reduce risks in client trading operations. Tradeweb serves approximately 2,500 clients in more than 65 countries. On average, Tradeweb facilitated more than $920 billion in notional value traded per day over the past four fiscal quarters. For more information, please go to www.tradeweb.com.

TransFICC is an eTrading technology company, which provides solutions for the Fixed Income and Derivatives markets. TransFICC specialises in API translation, workflow and connectivity technology, to address the three issues of fragmentation, market data throughput and regulation. It is ‘One API for eTrading’ delivers low latency, scalable and secure connectivity for banks and the buy-side trading in the fixed income and derivatives markets. The TransFICC development team has significant expertise in building high performance, yet robust eTrading technology solutions. For further information, please visit our website: www.transficc.trade

EmergingMarketWatch is a subscription-based analytical service, covering the emerging regions of Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America as well as the Eurozone periphery. We add value to the information flow through local knowledge, derived from local contributors, and through our experienced team of economists. We provide the essential combination of reliable and timely information flow with in-depth macroeconomic and political research and analyses.

The mission of ICMA is to promote resilient and well-functioning international and globally integrated cross-border debt securities markets, which are essential to fund sustainable economic growth and development. ICMA is a membership association, headquartered in Switzerland, committed to serving the needs of its wide range of members. These include public and private sector issuers, financial intermediaries, asset managers and other investors, capital market infrastructure providers, central banks, law firms and others worldwide. ICMA currently has some 600 members in more than 60 countries. ICMA brings together members from all segments of the wholesale and retail debt securities markets, through regional and sectoral member committees, and focuses on a comprehensive range of market practice and regulatory issues which impact all aspects of international market functioning. ICMA prioritises four core areas – primary markets, secondary markets, repo and collateral markets, and the green, social and sustainability markets.

Best Execution reviews the issues that impact the achievement of best execution in the global securities markets throughout the trading lifecycle (from pre-trade to trade execution to post-trade). Increasingly driven by regulation we report on the seismic shifts that are occurring in capital markets across asset classes, with a key focus on the cutting-edge technology solutions and services that are needed to meet these changes. www.bestexecution.net

We need to talk about bonds. Liquidity has been sucked out of the credit markets by regulation. It can only be replaced by a structural change in the secondary market, or a change to the issuance model in the primary market. Neither is happening right now. Fixed income trading costs are opaque at best, so achieving best execution in the bond market seems an impossible task. Wedded to illiquidity, a lack of price transparency could threaten to impact issuers. The DESK provides buy-side traders with precise detail on the macro-drivers, events and plans that are shaping liquidity and price discovery in fixed income markets. Published quarterly, The DESK delivers facts from the frontline of trading, opinion on the potential of new initiatives and support for fixed income desks across investment firms. Talking about bonds starts at The DESK. www.fi-desk.com