Cortex Fixed Income
Cortex Fixed Income offers a comprehensive platform that combines intuitive technology and access to BNP Paribas liquidity across the entire fixed income market, including interest rates, credit, inflation, foreign exchange, and hybrid structures, as well as thousands of corporate and government bonds.
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Cortex Rates
Cortex Rates provides live pricing and click-and-trade execution for a range of derivative products across interest rates. The intuitive platform employs a simple booking interface that connects you to an array of products including interest rates swap, options and structures.
Whether you want to develop innovative trading strategies, price and execute a variety of derivative products or monitor and manage your trading activity, Cortex Rates has been designed to offer you a fully integrated solution that is simple to use and offers complete transparency.
Flexible booking interface
An intuitive product menu enables you to find the products you need quickly and easily. Combined with dedicated deal capture screens for all support products, you have complete control in how you price and execute trades using the platform.
Performance-driven pricing
All pricing works on an RFQ basis – simple click-and-trade from price generation through to execution.
Interest rate structures supported
Click and execute a variety of Interest Rates products including Cap, Collar, Floor, Swap and more.
Historical reporting & termsheet generation
Broad reporting features offer on-demand reporting for all historical RFQs and trade executed. Additionally, termsheets are generated before any trade confirmation to ensure full execution transparency.
Market Intelligence
Cortex Rates is fully integrated into Global Markets, BNP Paribas’ comprehensive capital markets research, analytics and market intelligence portal.
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Cortex Secondary
Combining intuitive technology and access to BNP Paribas liquidity, Cortex Secondary gives you the flexibility to securely click and trade real-time secondary market prices across interest rates, credit, inflation, foreign exchange, and hybrid structures together with thousands of corporate and government bonds.
Dynamic interface design
Cortex Secondary employs a comprehensive search filter that enables you to view the full inventory of instruments available on the platform (searches can be customised by ISIN, maturity, strategy or current). Once a product has been selected, Cortex Secondary allows you to create your own unique customised trading interface with only the products you need.
Corporate & government bonds
Access real-time executable secondary market prices across 16,000+ supported cash fixed income products.
Structured fixed
income products
Access real-time executable secondary market prices across 700+ supported structured fixed income products.
Competitive pricing
Our competitive and consistent pricing has been configured to perform and provide ef cient execution in different market conditions.
Reporting and evaluation tools
Reporting and evaluation tools enable you to view all your trading activity from fully customisable trader blotters. Alternatively, the platform can also create market snapshots by exporting historical price charts, coupon history and termsheets to excel.
Latest News on Cortex
Cortex is recognised as OTC Trading Platform of the Year, as single dealer platforms gain traction with their innovative features and functionality.
BNP Paribas recognised for its corporate FX and forwards and swaps capabilities at the FX Markets eFX Awards 2024.
BNP Paribas receives four accolades at the Euromoney FX Awards 2023 for its FX trading capabilities and market-leading technology, ALiX.
