Primary Dealer by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York since 2009 and an active participant in all Treasury auctions, Treasury purchases, and Federal Reserve Open Market Operations. In an addition, Jefferies is an important provider of secondary market liquidity in the Treasury market as well as a significant underwriter of debt issued by U.S. government agencies.

Designated Primary Dealer or equivalent in the UK, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal and Slovenia. Jefferies also provides liquidity across the whole spectrum of securities issued by supranationals, sovereigns and other European governments and their agencies.

Derivatives product specialists operate in Financial Futures & Options on all major exchanges out of the New York, London, and Los Angeles offices. Using fundamental and technical analysis, they strive to add value by helping clients create and implement strategies that meet their risk profiles and trading objectives. Jefferies executes on these trade ideas using synthetic pricing, algorithms, block liquidity and market making capabilities of the Fixed Income and Equities franchises. Jefferies ranks as a top counterparty for listed derivatives in the U.S. and in Europe.

Repo Trading and Sales team is a participant in the daily Federal Reserve Securities Lending Program and Open Market Operations. In addition to providing firm liquidity, the desk maintains an active matchbook to facilitate customer financing needs.

Electronic Capabilities include providing clients liquidity through all the main electronic distribution channels: Bloomberg (JEFX), Tradeweb, BondVision, Reuters (JEFX) and MarketAxess.

Global Economics

Sitting within Jefferies Fixed Income is a devoted Economics team, focused on the U.S. and European economies. The Economist content includes analysis of monetary policy and fiscal policy developments, as well as macroeconomic forecasts. The teams sit with the respective government securities traders on the trading floor and regularly meet to discuss their views and outlook with clients from across the firm. Both teams travel extensively.

The U.S. Economics team is responsible for the Jefferies U.S. economic, Federal Reserve, Treasury financing and fiscal policy analysis and outlook.

The European Economics team covers the Eurozone and the UK, with a heavy focus on the policy debate.