Inter-dealer brokers BGC Partners has expanded its daily swap fixing to include additional countries in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and Asia Pacific have been formally recognised as official price references under International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) documentation.

This already has US dollar, euro, Singapore dollar and Hong Kong dollar ISDA fixing pages. BGC Partners' euro interest rate swap and US dollar interest rate swap pages were accepted earlier in the month by ISDA. In October 2008 the company announced the publication of its US dollar overnight index swap (OIS) and euro overnight index average (EONIA) pages as price references by ISDA.

From August 3 BGC Partners through the BGCantor Market Data service is providing ISDA defined fixings for swap and non-deliverable swaps transactions executed in Chinese renminbi, Czech koruna, Indian rupee, Indonesian rupiah, Philippine peso, Romanian leu, Russian rouble, Taiwanese dollar, Thai baht, Turkish lira and Vietnamese dong.

BGC Partners is a global intermediary to the wholesale financial markets specialising in the brokering of a broad range of financial products, including fixed income securities, interest rate swaps, foreign exchange, equities, equity derivatives, credit derivatives, commodities, futures, structured products and other instruments. It also provides a range of services including trade execution, broker-dealer services, clearing, processing, information, and other back office services.