RBS debuts electronic trading of inflation swaps

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has launched electronic inflation swap trading within its single-dealer portal on Bloomberg.

The RBS inflation trading engine provides a real-time tradable market to be streamed to customers' desktops. The service covers the main European indexes: the Eurozone consumer price index, the UK retail price index and French consumer price index excluding tobacco. RBS is offering zero-coupon inflation swaps, which account for the majority of the inflation derivatives