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Bloomberg Secures Contracts to Provide Electronic Trading Platforms to ECB and Other Eurosystem Central Banks

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Bloomberg has been awarded three significant framework agreements with the European Central Bank (ECB) and other National Central Banks within the Eurosystem for the supply of Electronic Trading Platforms (ETPs) for trading in government bonds denominated in Euro, USD and JPY, alongside USD and JPY Interest Rate Swaps, and futures contracts.

Bloomberg’s Netherlands-based Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF), BTFE, will host any trades, with futures trading supported by Bloomberg’s Tradebook ISV and its EMSX execution management system.

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