UK GILTS - not available, is it possible please?

Support Questions
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UK GILTS are the UK Treasuries issued by the UK Government. In the UK they are very popular because they don’t pay capital gains tax and are safe.

For some reason I cannot seem to be able to create a Gilt as an asset, so I can do it manually, but I rather ask before I do as updating will also have to be manual. BTW, I think this happens in excel too.

(What people do in many cases is to build a Gilt “Ladder” for income, so buy Gilts at different maturity dates and coupon rates to have very safe, capital gains free income but with income from the coupon, which is taxed). Being able to have this feature in capitally would be fantastic.

For example United Kingdom Bonds, T26, Gilt 0.125% 30jan2026, GBP (GB00BL68HJ26) does not come up. I think it is an access problem although if you do a google search you can find it or looking in the LSE:

  1. ISIN

    GB00BL68HJ26

  2. CFI

    DBZTFR

  3. FIGI

    BBG00SSK93Y0

  4. SEDOL

    BL68HJ2

  5. Ticker

    UKT 0.125 01/30/26

thank you!

Polu

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Hi, yes, currently we don’t have them. As I understand, they’re government-issued bonds, that you buy directly - not on the market?

If yes, then they can be created manually with Interest Based Pricing - you create them once (as a Bond type) and once set-up, they will create payout transactions automatically. If interest rates are dynamic, you can model that too.

We currently have support for Polish direct-to-consumer governments bonds that are using the above mechanism. Gilts could be added in the future though if the interest is large enough (as long as there’s a data source, and they’re direct-to-consumer, not market-traded assets).