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About MTS
MTS Group is the leading market in Europe for the trading of fixed income securities. The MTS group of companies has over 1,200 participants1 throughout Europe and Israel with average transaction volumes above €80 billion a day (single counted). The MTS market model allows for the use of a common trading platform, whilst corporate governance and market supervision remain with the domestic regulators and financial community in each respective market.

1 Same participant can be active on more than one MTS market and therefore may be counted more than once.
Real-Time Price Information is complemented by a variety of benchmark value-added products including -

  • MTS Reference Data
  • MTS Reference Prices
  • MTS Time Series Data
  • MTS Snap-Shot Data
  • MTS Delayed Data
  • EuroMTS Indices

Together these data products bring you unparalleled access to the European bond market, meeting your needs for the best in market data.
For further information please select the link above or contact the MTS Data department:




MTS Suite of Exclusive Benchmark Products

Real-time tradable prices from the only electronic system offering data across the entire European Government,
Quasi-government and covered bond market.
  • Best bid / offer quotes, market depth and last traded price, all complete with related volumes.
  • Actual traded prices or prices live on the MTS platform at which MTS participants may deal - no indicative prices.
  • MTS market-making system ensures narrow bid-offer spreads and continuous, aggressive pricing on a wide range of products, irrespective of market conditions.
  • Available via the following vendors - Bloomberg LP, Borsa Italiana, Class Editori SpA, Fixnetix, Il Sole 24 Ore, Interactive Data Real Time Services, Thomson Reuters, SIX Telekurs and Sungard.

Official open and close prices calculated at 11:02 and 16:02 CET daily, based on benchmark trading data from the MTS platform:
  • for all European government bonds and bills traded, and all European non-government bonds traded on MTS Markets;
  • Actual traded prices or prices live on the MTS platform at which MTS participants may deal - no indicative prices.
  • Available via Thomson Reuters and Exchange Data International via www.mtsreferencedata.com
    (register at this website for a 30 day free trial).

  • Direct from the MTS platform, MTS Time Series provides a high frequency, tick-by-tick data source for practitioners and academics conducting in-depth research in time series and market microstructure of fixed income markets and instruments.
  • Dating from April 2003 the MTS database contains daily cash and repo information and high frequency trade and quote data, for all bonds traded on the MTS System.
  • Available via www.mtsreferencedata.com, register for a free sample of the data.

Sourced directly from the MTS platform, produced in collaboration with Exchange Data International, providing:
  • information relating to all bonds listed on the MTS Markets including: bond types, issuer, coupon, maturity and MTS Market amongst others;
  • highly configurable search functions and results you can export;
  • email alerts when changes occur in the data;
  • Available via www.mtsreferencedata.com, register for a 30 day free trial.
  • Up to 5 real-time updates per day;
  • Available via Interactive Data and Thomson Reuters.
  • 15 minutes delay;
  • Available via SIX Telekurs, Interactive Data and Thomson Reuters.
  • Transparent, tradable, independent and real-time Eurozone government bond indices.
  • Tradability stems from the use of MTS Markets' prices in calculating and disseminating the indices every 30 seconds. Over €600 billion in assets are benchmarked to the EuroMTS Indices.
  • Transparent - freely available methodology and data, all data necessary to replicate the indices is available for free at - www.euromtsindices.com
  • Available via the following vendors - Bloomberg LP, Class Editori SpA, Factset, Fixnetix, Interactive Data, Mellon Analytical Solutions, SIX Telekurs, Thomson Reuters, Rimes, Risk Metrics and Traderforce.
Conferences & Events 2009
  • May 20th to 22nd in New York - North American Financial Information Summit
    http://web.incisive-events.com/fit/2009/05/north-american-financial-information-summit/index.html
    EuroMTS are Lead Sponsors at this event and also participating on the panel "An evolving relationship: Finding a balance between exchanges and customers".
  • 1st to 3rd July in London - MTS Scientific Conference
    The Fifth MTS Conference on Financial Markets - The Fixed Income Markets and the Crisis Hosted by EuroMTS at the London Stock Exchange, this event focuses on academic research and the presentation of this research to academics, practitioners, issuers, treasury officials and senior bankers.
  • 22nd September in London - European Financial Information Summit 2009
    http://eu.financialinformationsummit.com
    EuroMTS are Lead Sponsors at this event and also participating on the panel "Exchanges: Fighting Back Against the MTF Onslaught".
  • 3rd to 8th October in Athens - World Financial Information Conference
    http://www.siia.net/wfic/2009/
    Rafah Hanna is moderating the Exchange Constituency Group and also participating in the Exchange workshop being held at this event.
  • 1st to 5th November in Hong Kong - Asia Pacific Financial Information Conference
    http://www.siia.net/apfic/2009/overview.asp