Trade Insight and Execution

Barclays Capital Sales and Trading teams are integrated to provide clients with distinctive trading insight, full-service trade execution and customized solutions across all products. Our market leadership in risk transfer provides clients with minimized risk, improved pricing and lower transaction costs.

Barclays Capital sales professionals cover growing distribution across geographies worldwide. Our multi-product distribution teams focus on the particular needs of our clients. Teams represent all products and services across equities. They also represent product and services from other Barclays Capital business areas and match client needs with solutions and insight.

Cash Trading
Our Cash team is a sector-based, single-stock trading desk focused on generating ideas and providing principal and agency trade execution. Highly experienced team of Sales Traders and Traders provide efficient principal and agency execution. Targeted use of our risk capital provides liquidity in various market conditions to generate positive results to reduce impact cost, lower opportunity costs, and minimize reinvestment risk. Our multi-product, industry sector focus provides expertise across markets.

Program Trading
Our Program Trading team facilitates cost-efficient trade execution and customized solutions across multiple markets for trading “baskets” of stocks. We offer portfolio trading to suit investor needs, whether they be agency only or require some form of risk transfer to achieve the desired objective. We utilize technology at every stage of the process, aimed at reducing market impact and increasing liquidity sourcing. Our pre-trade quantitative trading analytics provides clients with sophisticated algorithmic strategies, customized analysis and index-related research. Clients can hedge or enhance portfolio returns by trading ETFs or index and single-stock futures contracts, can access the FX desk to hedge portfolios spanning multiple currencies or settle equity transactions in local currencies.

Special Situations
The Special Situations team provides multi-product coverage and focus on event-driven scenarios and provides insight into risk arbitrage involving mergers and acquisitions, special situations, spin-offs, stub trades and share class trades. The team is a central point for merger arbitrage stocks, trading equity for hedge funds and traditional fund managers. They offer superior spread trading expertise, and capability, and market-making in new equity issues post-reorganization. Barclays Capital has a distinctive risk arbitrage research team. Our analysts have active dialogue with buy-side analysts and arbitrage funds; conduct extensive analysis of mergers, Dutch tenders, and exchange offers; and produce widely-read quarterly reviews, thematic reports, and weekly monitors for our clients.

Electronic Trading
Equities Electronic Trading is built on a heritage of strong high-touch sales trading and is modeled on the same principles of high-touch service. The Electronic Sales Trading team provides trading insight, tailors solutions and advises clients on how to get the most from our products.

We invest in the research and development necessary to solve the buy-side trader's most difficult problems. Our algorithmic trading strategies and Dynamic Router are built on proprietary research and market intelligence that allows them to predict liquidity and respond to market conditions in real time. By optimising order placement, we minimize information leakage and protect clients orders. LX®, our internal liquidity cross, improves execution opportunities by aggregating a unique pool of liquidity, and protects clients by giving them control over the counter parties with which they interact. Our analytics suite, Portfolio WebBench®, helps clients analyse single stocks and portfolios pre- and post-trade, as well as monitor intra-trade performance in real time.

In an increasingly complex equities market, Barclays Capital provides the tools necessary to access, aggregate and analyse liquidity so that clients are empowered to compete with the most advanced market participants.

Equity Flow Derivatives
Our Equity Flow Derivatives business provides a comprehensive set of derivatives products from vanilla exchange-traded options to exotic custom products, enabling clients to hedge, leverage, index and finance their portfolios. We are active in all exchange traded derivatives, including single stock, index, ETFs, sector and flex options on all North American derivatives exchanges. We offer clients the ability to transact options off-exchange, providing a direct link between buyer and seller.

Clients have access to our client web portal for equity flow derivatives. It features macro and index volatility publications from our dedicated derivatives research teams, single stock trade notes, systematic volatility strategies and analytics.

Desk-Based Analysts and Industry Specialists
Our desk-based analysts and Industry Specialists produce non-published analysis that combines fundamental company analysis with market sentiment. Working side-by-side with traders and sales professionals, they provide clients with unique sector and trading insight. Barclays Capital has a distinct market intelligence model that provides actionable topical market views to traders, portfolios managers and analysts. Our experienced analysts have sector expertise, a strong fundamental background and provide creative ways to monetize market opportunities.

Equity & Funds Structured Markets
Barclays Capital is a market leader in the global derivatives marketplace, providing fully-integrated solutions across all the major equity-linked segments to deliver innovative equity, structured and fund-linked derivative solutions to clients. Our innovative products enable clients to achieve a variety of investment objectives, including management of risk exposure, income generation, access to emerging or developing markets, indexation and benchmarking, and diversification.

Convertibles
Barclays Capital provides clients with a global convertibles platform from origination and sales to trading and research. Our dedicated sales team has demonstrated superior client coverage and execution capability, selling benchmark transactions, complex structured private solutions and product tailored for each issuer’s sector and circumstance.

A comprehensive innovative research platform is part of our core offering and includes daily and weekly market views, thematic research analysis, convertible analytics, new issue data and related equity, credit and strategy research, and tailored analysis for clients. Our dedicated research team has product depth and expertise across the convertible market, producing strategy reports, sector analysis, periodicals, and annual outlook event-driven publications.

CB Insight is a comprehensive web-based analytics platform on the convertibles market, providing clients with access to the same models and data used by our desk. The platform features tools to identify liquid sectors and issues, analyze the supply in the new issues market, structuring and valuation analysis; and relative value evaluations of individual issues.