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AFS Blue
AFS Blue connects Issuers and Investors in the primary and secondary markets for debt instruments with a minimum of an (implicit) AA rating in the following sectors:
- European Local and Regional Government
- Housing Associations
- Regional Water Authorities
- Guaranteed Export Finance
- Other Public Sector & Healthcare
The AFS Blue platform is part of AFS Interest.
Benefits
- AFS Blue helps Issuers and Investors to automate the manual processes involved in bond issuance, allowing them to reduce costs and increase efficiency, while at the same time helping Issuers to diversify their funding base.
- AFS Group’s existing large, European network of Investors and Issuers will automatically have access to the platform. AFS serves clients throughout Europe, Middle East and Asia
- Issuers have the choice to list their loan as tradable on the secondary market. This enables tradability in a growing liquid marketplace with more Investors. This will eventually result in better yields for Investors and lower costs for Issuers.
- AFS Blue offers a secure environment, whereby the Investor to safe-keep his assets with the (inter)national Central Security Depository (CSD/ICSD) – The external custodian and payment provider.
- Our platform provides flexibility and choice for any Issuer to get support from one of our professional Lead Managers or to sell to Investors directly.
- In the secondary market our platform supports a rule-based allocation process, which means that an allocation is not affected by any arbitrary decision of an intermediary party.
- Our platform will provide a valuation tool, actual and historical Interest Rate data and multiple grouping account structures.
