New transparency in bond offerings.

Newtrex is an electronic auction platform for large, liquid benchmark bond transactions — rethinking issuance in primary bond markets for frequent borrowers and institutional investors. Transparent. Efficient. Fast. Cheap.

$145tn
global fixed income outstanding, 2024 (SIFMA)
€580bn+
euro benchmark SSA issuance in 2025
100% allocation
orders fill in full at your price — confirmed in real time
At a glance

Rethinking issuance in primary bond markets.

Newtrex

A financial technology company rethinking how new bonds are priced, allocated and settled.

Objective

To establish a new, automated issuance process that is simple, transparent and fair.

Product

An electronic auction platform focused on large and liquid benchmark bond transactions.

Clients

Frequent borrowers and institutional investors — professional market participants only.

Today's syndication process

Every message relayed manually — over days
  • Price discovery by phone over 1–3 days
  • Allocation at the banks' discretion — investors may receive only partial fills
  • Prices known only after the final deal announcement
  • Intransparent, complicated, slow, expensive

The Newtrex auction

One platform, direct and real-time
  • Live countdown from start price to reserve price — open and rule-based
  • Orders fill in full at the investor's price; pro-rata only among orders at the final price
  • Pre-order or join live — in cash price or asset-swap terms, with automated hedge execution
  • Transparent, efficient, fast, cheap
The Newtrex bond auction

From announcement to post-trade — one transparent workflow.

01

Announcement

All deal details on the platform: deal size, issuer profile, investor presentation, term sheet, documentation and comparables.

02

Pre-issuance

Enter limit orders before the auction — in cash price or as an asset-swap level. ASW orders are converted to cash prices continuously against the swap curve, and the hedge executes automatically on any fill.

03

Auction

The price counts down live from the start price toward the reserve price. Orders execute in full the moment their limit is reached or when entered live. Executed volume is not published during the auction — no strategic waiting.

04

Allocation

The auction ends once orders reach the deal size. Every executed order is filled in full; only orders at the very last price share the remaining amount on a weighted basis.

05

Post-trade

Final details and weighted-average deal price published; real-time statistics; flexible settlement options.

Full allocation at your price, confirmed immediately — pro-rata applies only among orders at the final price. The most transparent and fairest treatment for investors.

Live execution — the auction clock
100.00
current price
0.500 %
current yield
Start 100.00Reserve 99.71
Order book open…
Swap spread−5.21 bp
Benchmark spread55.89 bp
EUR 1.0bn deal — executed volume shown for illustration onlyEUR 0m
Order execution

Inspired by the Dutch flower auction, where the clock counts down and the first bid wins — it's why our logo is a tulip.

Price discovery

The new issue premium, made observable.

In a traditional syndication, the new issue premium — the extra yield an issuer pays over its own curve — emerges from phone calls and guidance revisions. Nobody can verify how it was set.

On Newtrex, the auction opens at the start yield, anchored to the issuer's interpolated secondary curve, and can move no further than the reserve yield the issuer has set in advance. Within that band, real demand determines where the deal clears.

The result: the NIP becomes an observable market outcome — simple, transparent, and verifiable by issuers, investors and regulators alike.

One platform, three participants

Built for issuers and investors. Open to banks.

Issuers

A quicker, more transparent process at significantly lower cost than traditional syndication fees.

Investors

A transparent pricing and allocation process. Each investor determines their fair value and can achieve full allocation.

Banks

Banks are welcome to participate — entering client orders and acting as hedge managers on transactions.

Settlement, your way — including on-chain.

The Newtrex auction is settlement-agnostic. Allocations can settle traditionally via bank, agent or clearing house — or on distributed-ledger infrastructure with tokenised bonds and digital cash, as adopted by a growing number of public-sector issuers. The engine stays the same; the rails are your choice.

  • Conventional settlement via bank, agent or clearing house
  • DLT settlement with tokenised securities and atomic delivery-versus-payment
  • Smart-contract-supported documentation through external providers
  • Optional underwriting by financial institutions or insurers
Get in touch

See the platform in action.

We work with frequent borrowers, institutional investors and banks who want a more transparent primary market.

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