Emerging Market Sovereign and Corporate Eurobonds

GFI identifies opportunities for its clients in emerging market fixed income for Latin and Central America, Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia out of its offices in:

Latin American Bonds

GFI in New York provides brokerage services for Latin American emerging market fixed income products. It offers hybrid, online and voice assisted brokerage services in both corporate and sovereign bonds, including Brazil Brady bonds, global bonds and corporate bonds.

In Argentina, GFI has a minority interest in Premium Securities, an inter-dealer broker of fixed income, foreign exchange and derivative products.

GFI has a relationship with Kobra, a leading Polish broker in emerging market eurobonds, which facilitates liquidity for Eastern European and Latin American emerging market products, covering corporate and sovereign global bonds. Also, GFI offers real-time and historical emerging market eurobond data direct from the global brokerage desks, enabling better position and risk exposure analysis.
 

Investment Grade Corporate Bonds

Divided by area of issuance, GFI offers brokerage services for Europe, North America, Latin America, Australia and Asia from the following desks:

Crossover, High Yield and Distressed Bonds

GFI’s activity in High Yield and Illiquid Bonds covers European and Asian corporates and banks.

Asset Backed Securities

GFI creates market liquidity for its clients in the asset-backed secondary market. This encompasses senior, subordinated and mezzanine tranches in all fixed and floating rate note products.

Bank Capital, FRNs, Loans and Preferred Shares 

• Floating Rate Notes (FRNs)
  GFI has global expertise in this market and operates from New York and London.

• Bank Capital

• Loans

• Preferred Shares
  Preferred securities offer an attractive solution for an increasing number of institutional investors and GFI specializes in generating liquidity for these clients. Preferred Stocks include Straight Perpetual Preferred Stock/DRD, Adjustable Rate Preferred Stock, REIT Preferred Stock, Yankee/Foreign Preferred Stock, Debt/Equity Hybrid Preferred Securities, CAPS/Tier 1, 2 1000 Dollar Pars and all new issues in the securities listed above.

Bond Options 

• Emerging Market Bond Options
  GFI offers integrity and competitive brokerage services on sovereigns in Latin and Central America, Eastern Europe and Asia. This desk is run out of GFI’s New York office.

• Japanese Government Bond Options
  GFI’s specialized Japanese experts serve the JGB option market from Sydney.