Interactive Brokers Expands Global Bond Offering, Adds CHF Bonds

Interactive Brokers enhances its global bond offering by expanding CHF-denominated bonds and trading hours and broadening client access to fixed-income markets.

Key Points:

• Expanded Bond Access: Interactive Brokers now offers CHF-denominated bonds and extended trading hours for global bonds, including corporate bonds and European Government Bonds.
• Enhanced Trading Opportunities: Clients gain greater liquidity, product choice, and transparency, enabling more diversified investments across global fixed-income markets.

Interactive Brokers (NASDAQ: IBKR), a leading global automated electronic broker, has announced substantial enhancements to its global bond offering through the IBKR Bond Marketplace. These enhancements will increase clients’ access and liquidity across multiple bond markets worldwide.

To broaden its reach in the fixed-income market, Interactive Brokers has expanded trading hours for global corporate bonds, European Government Bonds (EGBs), and UK Gilts, making them available for up to 22 hours daily. This expansion also includes the introduction of Swiss Franc-denominated (CHF) bonds to the IBKR platform, a significant addition for clients seeking exposure to the Swiss market.

Interactive Brokers Expands Global Bond Offering, Adds CHF Bonds

Including Swiss government bonds and a wide range of global corporate bonds priced in CHF marks a critical enhancement to IBKR’s bond offerings, which already include bonds denominated in USD, EUR, GBP, CAD, and HKD. This development further solidifies IBKR’s commitment to offering its clients comprehensive bond market access.

“IBKR is pleased to once again deliver on our long-term program to substantially add to bond market access for our clients in terms of products, price discovery, liquidity, and hours of availability,” stated Thomas Frank, Executive Vice President of Interactive Brokers.

Interactive Brokers’ clients, spanning retail investors, active traders, and institutional investors, will benefit from the enhanced liquidity and broader product range, allowing them to trade bonds alongside global stocks, options, futures, currencies, mutual funds, and more—all from a unified platform. The ability to trade CHF-denominated bonds gives clients more opportunities to navigate and capitalize on the European fixed-income landscape.

These enhancements also aim to improve transparency and offer more trading opportunities, enabling IBKR clients to diversify their portfolios and better express their views across various fixed-income markets. The IBKR Bond Marketplace, known for its cost-effective trading environment, now offers global access to over one million bonds, including Corporate, Municipal, Treasury, and non-US sovereign bonds. Clients can use the IBKR Bond Search Tool to compare bonds by criteria such as type, maturity, and yield, simplifying the adjustment of bond holdings.

With these latest enhancements, Interactive Brokers continues to position itself in the global bond market, providing its clients with unparalleled access to tools and opportunities in the fixed-income space.

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