Since the birth of financial futures, market practitioners have exhorted exchanges to list “corporate bond futures”. What they envision, typically, are contracts that would be traded and transparently priced on a regulated exchange, and that would be guaranteed by a centralized clearing house, and that would (by whatever means) furnish a generic proxy for the price exposure of investment grade corporate bonds

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 - CDS Reference Guide - 07.12.2007