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Rates

Advanced thinking delivers actionable ideas

To keep up in the ever-fluctuating global rates markets, you need more than a reliable partner with a global view and regional expertise.

You need more than the right resources, specialized services and liquidity. You need nothing less than actionable ideas that come from advanced thinking, with fast, truly scalable algorithmic electronic trading that together deliver liquidity.

We deliver tailored investor and liability management products and are a true global liquidity and financing partner. The team has main offices and trading centers in London, New York, Paris, Singapore, Tokyo and Zurich.

Leading rates flow franchise for cash and derivatives
We are a global market maker in cash and derivatives markets and a primary dealer in multiple jurisdictions including US, Eurozone, UK and Japan. This covers the full spectrum of government and agency bonds and swap and flow option products and enables us to service issuers, risk managers and investors in all aspects of their activities.

Tailored investor and liability management products
We offer our clients an extensive suite of investor and liability management products that incorporate innovative leading ideas that price, manage risk and structure interest rate, FX and hybrid solutions in OTC, note and other forms. In addition, combinations of cash and derivative products, including the important inflation asset class, ensure a combined, yet tailored rates package across all instruments. We are a leader in the emerging Longevity/Mortality asset class, offering innovative hedging and risk management solutions to institutional holders of risk and providing our clients a means to access this low correlation alternative asset class for investors looking for diversification.

Innovative algorithmic and index capability
We deliver to our clients a growing set of innovative rates indices that include a multi-currency, multi-tenor swap rate index (TFMI) that partners Credit Suisse with a leading algorithmic fund manager (Fortinbras), CSAVI - Credit Suisse's adaptive IR volatility index, plus future enhancements and evolutions in other rates areas. Consistent with these products is the ability to offer debt management tools built around market signals, a variety of instruments and algorithmic curve forecasting technology.

Strong global liquidity and financing partner
We give our clients access to a global liquidity and firm financing capability that utilizes repo and related instruments to help clients with balance sheet management and optimization of funding. Together with our ability to offer global access to liquidity, this makes Credit Suisse a partner that is always there for our clients.