MarketAxess Wins Technology Provider of the Year Award at the 2013 FStech Awards
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 19, 2013--
MarketAxess Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: MKTX), the operator of a leading
electronic trading platform for European and U.S. high-grade corporate
bonds, emerging markets bonds and other types of fixed-income
securities, today announced it has been awarded the
Technology
Provider of the Year award in the 2013 FStech Awards.
Robert Urtheil, Head of MarketAxess Europe and Asia, said: “We are
pleased to be recognized by the FStech awards committee for our
technological advancement in trading global credit instruments. We have
been at the forefront of fixed income electronic trading for over a
decade, providing our investor and broker-dealer clients with innovative
trading technology, valuable market data and robust post-trade
connectivity. As the market has evolved, MarketAxess has continued to
invest in developing efficient, intuitive trading protocols to help
support market liquidity.”
The award recognized the important enhancements that MarketAxess has
made to help its network of over 1,000 investor and broker-dealer firms
source liquidity in the fixed income markets. MarketAxess has developed
a suite of proprietary trading options to facilitate more Open Trading
on its platform, including Market Lists, Client Axes and electronic
order matching. These allow investors to access liquidity from the
entire MarketAxess community in a centralized marketplace for corporate
bonds.
MarketAxess is also investing heavily in CDS trading functionality and
clearing connectivity in anticipation of the new regulatory environment
under MiFID II/MiFIR and EMIR in Europe and Dodd-Frank in the U.S.
About MarketAxess
MarketAxess operates a leading electronic trading platform that enables
fixed-income market participants to efficiently trade corporate bonds
and other types of fixed-income instruments using MarketAxess’ patented
trading technology. Over 1,000 investor and broker-dealer firms are
active users of the MarketAxess trading platform, accessing global
liquidity in U.S. high-grade corporate bonds, European bonds, high yield
and emerging markets bonds, agency bonds, asset-backed and preferred
securities and credit default swaps. MarketAxess also offers a number of
trading-related products and services, including: market data to assist
clients with trading decisions; connectivity solutions that facilitate
straight-through processing; technology services to optimize trading
environments; and execution services for exchange-traded fund managers
and other clients.
MarketAxess maintains its headquarters in New York and has offices in
London, Chicago, Salt Lake City, Hong Kong, Singapore and São Paulo. For
more information, please visit www.marketaxess.com.
Source: MarketAxess Holdings Inc.
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