Rates

The HSBC Rates franchise provides debt issuance and advice, financing, innovative risk management and investment solutions by providing access to a broad selection of vanilla and structured products. These are available in over 50 countries through nearly 800 fixed income specialists around the world.

HSBC Rates brings together expertise from sales, trading, structuring and distribution with world-class HSBC research. We provide you with unparalleled product knowledge and access to our global liquidity, enabling us to showcase our strengths particularly in sterling, Hong Kong dollar, US dollar and euro markets.

Our expert sales teams are broadly split into investor and corporate specialists. HSBC Rates service our central bank, corporate, hedge fund and financial institutional clients by offering valued opinions, trading ideas and strategies.

Our global offices, including Dubai, Sao Paulo and Sydney, coupled with our hub dealing rooms in London, Paris, New York and Hong Kong allow HSBC Rates to have unique, global cross-border connectivity. HSBC Rates links up for 24-hour sales and trading coverage, allowing us to take advantage of opportunities and to fulfil our clients’ needs through our full spectrum of products:

• Index-linked and global government bonds
• Sovereign, agency and supranational bonds
• Covered bonds
• Repos
• Inflation swaps
• Interest rates swaps, options and forward rate agreements
• Exotic interest rate products, eg quantos
• Sovereign CDS

Multi-bank portals

Customers can access this market-leading liquidity through these multi-bank portals:

• Bloomberg
• Tradeweb
• MTS BondVision
• Market Axess
• Bondscape

We support a variety of trading models including click-to-trade, request-for-stream and request-for-quote.

Rely on our stable and robust technology; our fast execution enables us to consistently rank among the top-tier dealers on the multi-bank portals.

Contacts

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• Americas
• Asia-Pacific
• EMEA

Euromoney Rates Survey 2012

• No.1 in Australian dollar overall
• No.1 in inflation-linked overall
• No.1 in inflation-linked derivatives
• No.1 in cross-currency swaps
• No.1 in euro cash: 2-5 year
• No.1 Asia-Pacific euro
• No.1 Asia-Pacific euro cash
• No.1 Asia-Pacific euro derivatives
• No.1 Asia-Pacific dollar
• No.1 Asia-Pacific dollar derivatives
• No.1 Asia-Pacific Australian dollar
• No.1 in the ability to deal with large volumes overall
• No.1 in liquidity consistency overall
• No.1 in the ability to deal with large volumes for corporates
• No.1 in economic research for corporates
• No.1 in liquidity consistency for corporates
• No.1 in market research/strategy for corporates
• No.1 in liquidity consistency for financial institutions
• No.1 in sales coverage for financial institutions

Euromoney Rates Survey 2011

• No.1 in liquidity consistency
• No.1 in the ability to deal with large transactions
• No.1 in sales coverage/client service
• No.1 in EUR corporates by currency
• No.1 in GBP corporates by currency
• No.1 in EUR corporates by cash products

Euromoney Award for Excellence 2011

• Best Global Risk Management House
• Best Flow House – CEE
• Best Flow House – Asia
• Best Global Sovereign Advisor
• Best Debt House – Western Europe
• Best Debt House – Asia
• Best Debt House – Middle East
• Best Debt House – UK
• Best Debt House – Hong Kong
• Best Debt House – Spain
• Best Debt House – Mexico
• Best Debt House – Finland
• Best Investment Bank – Saudi Arabia
• Best Risk Advisor – Middle East

Euroweek Awards 2011

• Best Middle East House

IFR Interest Rate Derivatives House of the Year 2010