TS Imagine adds loans trading to TradeSmart EMS

TS Imagine announced that its TradeSmart fixed-income EMS now supports loans trading, adding leveraged loans, syndicated loans and distressed debt to the platform’s product set. The update allows institutional traders to access loans alongside bonds and other assets through a single front-office interface.

The loans capability is integrated into TradeSmart’s existing electronic front-office system, which combines multi-asset trading, portfolio management, prime brokerage and financial risk management functions. TradeSmart already covers investment-grade and high-yield credit, municipal, mortgage and government bonds, asset-backed securities, credit default swaps and interest rate swaps, as well as listed securities and cryptocurrencies.

TS Imagine said the change responds to demand from trading desks for more scalable, automated and integrated workflows as they manage larger multi-asset books. The company cited its Automation 2.0 event-driven trading engine, which lets desks define and execute rule-based workflows across asset classes, as a factor supporting increased automation.

Platform data released by TS Imagine showed automated fixed-income execution volumes rose 200% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2026. Over the same period, overall fixed-income trading on TradeSmart increased 44% year-on-year.

Rob Flatley, founder and chief executive of TS Imagine, said the update addresses operational friction caused by fragmented toolsets and enables trading desks to handle more of their workflows within a single platform.

Loan markets such as leveraged and syndicated loans and distressed debt have historically had lower levels of automation than many bond markets. TS Imagine’s addition of loans trading is intended to let desks execute and monitor loans within the same workflow environment they use for other fixed-income and listed products, and to extend automated execution capabilities to a broader set of credit instruments.