Totally Wired
This wire displays the syndicate members and their underwriting liability.
What is the AAU Wire?
This key lets you enter "edit mode" for the active cell without taking your hands off the keyboard.
What is F2?
When a bond's yield goes up, its price goes in this direction.
What is down?
Some issuers require this type of deposit, which signals that an underwriter has a vested interest in placing the issue and will therefore act vigorously on behalf of the issuer.
What is a good faith deposit?
This wire shows investors the general structure of the transaction (maturities and par amounts) without pricing detail.
What is the Structure Wire?
This service generates "gameday" which allows real-time tracking of investor orders during bond sales.
What is Ipreo?
Daily Double!
What is Ctrl + 1?
This concept represents the extra yield conferred to investors if a premium bond is not redeemed on its call date and continues paying interest.
What is yield kick?
Sales and trading use this to quickly make broad announcements in real time.
What is the Hoot-n-Holler or the Hoot.
This wire displays pricing to investors for their general feedback before the order period.
What is the Pre-marketing wire?
This application's interface hasn't changed in 20 years and is used for generating league tables
What is SDC?
This key combination automatically sums an adjacent range.
What is Alt = ?
This is a short term note that is issued in anticipation of a longer-term offering.
What is a BAN (bond anticipation note)?
Daily Double!!!!!
What is minimum denomination?
This wire confirms or adjusts the pricing after the order period and represents the levels at which the underwriter commits to purchase unsold balances.
What is the Re-Price / Verbal Award wire
Among other functions, this application can generate all outstanding debt that meets a wide range of parameters.
This sequence lets you paste just the format of a cell.
What is Alt h v s t?
Muni bonds typically have this many years of call protection.
What is 10 years?
You must notify a certain email address after this is received after pricing a bond deal.
What is the written award?
This wire reflects the final pricing and par amounts for the transaction and is typically released the morning after pricing.
What is the Final pricing wire?
Among other uses, this application lets you see Citi's secondary market share by CUSIP, sector, or state.
What is MSD data tool?
This shortcut takes you to a direct precedent in a cell's formula.
What is Ctrl + [ ?
This describes the extra money left over in the "uses" part of a sources and uses table, due to the requirement of rounding bonds to $5,000 increments.
What is additional proceeds?
This term represents the takedown, management fee, if any, and underwriters’ expenses.
What is gross spread or underwriters' discount?