Meanings of trade bilaterally in English

Although such contracts rarely trade bilaterally, euro, sterling, yen, Swiss franc and Australian dollar NDFs will be cleared to the platform during the first half.

So many Asian banks now prefer to trade derivatives with non-U.S. counterparties, or look to settle trades bilaterally.

The OTC market is where derivatives are traded bilaterally between brokers, investment banks, oil companies, trading firms and other counterparties.

Swaps are a loose denomination for a variety of largely unregulated financial instruments that are traded bilaterally, and not on exchanges.

Regulators are encouraging exchange trading and central clearing of derivatives contracts currently traded bilaterally between banks in a bid to cut risks.

These contracts are traded bilaterally by banks but the reforms will require them to pass through third-party clearing houses backed by a default fund.

Many bonds are traded bilaterally but ESMA has proposed that traders should publicly display the offered and traded prices for "liquid" or heavily traded debt.