MarketAxess Holdings Inc.

MarketAxess Holdings Inc. is a publicly traded company that was established in 2000 and is headquartered in New York, New York. It operates an electronic trading platform that provides direct access to global liquidity in the fixed income markets, enabling institutional investor and broker-dealer companies worldwide to efficiently trade corporate bonds and other fixed income securities. Through its Open Trading protocols, the platform enables anonymous, fully electronic all-to-all trading of bonds between institutional investor clients and broker-dealers.

Furthermore, MarketAxess provides investment and trading support services, such as composite+ pricing and other market data products, auto-execution and other execution services, connectivity solutions, technology services and pre-and post-trade services, such as trade matching, trade publication, regulatory transaction reporting, and market and reference data.

The company’s clients include institutional asset managers, insurance companies, pension funds, governments, hedge funds, broker-dealers, and corporations worldwide. It has clients in over 50 countries, including the United States, Europe, South America, and Asia.

MarketAxess has won numerous awards over the years, including the EuroWeek IT Award for “Best Trading Platform” nine times, the Waters Technology Award for “Best Fixed Income Trading Platform” seven times, and the Buy-Side Technology Award for “Best Cross Asset Trading Platform” five times. It has also been named by Institutional Investor Magazine as the “Best Electronic Trading Platform” for U.S. Corporate Bonds nine times and “Best Electronic Trading Platform” for European Bonds seven times. Furthermore, the company has been named to Fortune Magazine’s “100 Fastest Growing Companies” list three times, and Euromoney’s “Best Overall Trading Platform” five times. In 2020, MarketAxess was placed at the top of the entire industry in The Wall Street Journal’s U.S. Bond Trading Market Ranking.