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Originally published by Capital Markets FinTech Forum | Oct 5, 2026
Gareth Coltman discusses how MarketAxess is using AI, machine learning, and automation to improve liquidity discovery, counterparty selection and execution, while exploring the opportunities and challenges of agentic AI in institutional trading.
Discover how AI is reshaping fixed income trading by enhancing workflows, improving access to data and making human judgement, trust and context more valuable than ever.
As private banks face growing pressure to scale efficiently, automation, AI and data-driven execution are moving from competitive advantage to business necessity. Erik Tham, Head of Product Management, Global Private Banking and Andre Cherbonnier, Head of Client Sales, Singapore, shares how MarketAxess’ suite of solutions for private banks and wealth managers are helping desks scale more efficiently while delivering a better client experience.
Originally published on The DESK | June 15, 2026
Spencer Lee of MarketAxess on the evolution of automation, liquidity provision and the case for a single trading cockpit. Creating more effective ways for traders to match orders takes technology, strategic vision and trading experience.
Automation in European credit trading is moving from early adoption to mainstream execution, driven by greater transparency, deeper liquidity pools and the rapid expansion of high-quality data.
The buy and sell sides are increasingly becoming comfortable with and utilizing automation in credit trading. Ryan Steffen, Product Specialist, explains what's behind this growth and how traders can gain a competitive edge using the MarketAxess suite of automation products, Auto-X™.
Traders and portfolio managers are becoming more confident putting automation to work to optimize their fixed income trading workflows, and are increasingly harnessing a greater risk appetite, as both dealer and buy-side algos continue to offer immense time savings.
During April 2025’s tariff-driven turbulence, credit markets saw notable but orderly volatility, unlike the severe disruptions of the COVID-19 crisis. The April 2 tariff announcement triggered uneven global market swings, highlighting credit markets’ growing resilience through increased dealer algos and steady PT performance, which are strengthening market structure.
MarketAxess is on a mission to optimize trading workflows and technology resources by enhancing and expanding our Auto-X™ suite of automation protocols. The efficacy of our classic Auto-X RFQ (launched in 2018) is evidenced by the impressive growth in auto-executed trade volume, surpassing ...
Highlights and objectives We aim to examine the price impact of client-initiated inquiries on the market, during a period of extreme volatility, to examine what drives information leakage. When trading large EUR IG blocks on MarketAxess in March 2023 , traders managed to minimize market...
In the ever-evolving landscape of fixed income electronic trading, automation technologies are quickly gaining popularity as a necessary trading tool. In our last blog on automation, we discussed how the MarketAxess automation toolkit has seen rapid growth in the recent past, even through times o...
Automation technologies touch so many parts of our lives that we often forget how integral they are to our every day. From setting the thermostat before you go to sleep to the camera in your smartphone and the advent of self-driving cars, automation has penetrated our lives to a degree that would...
Highlights Time to trade is on average 13 times faster in the EU markets than in the US: the median time to trade is 43 seconds in EUR IG vs 10 minutes in USD IG. Growth of algos in both EU and US markets means that trading can be faster than it used to be. Submitters already calibrate their...
At the outset of a new year, it’s common to make new year’s resolutions for personal improvement – eating healthier, exercising more often, keeping a gratitude journal. When reflecting on your business goals for the year, are there specific areas you’ll be focusing on in 2022? One thing we would ...
In early 2018, we launched our Auto-Execution tool for corporate bond trading and Parametric was one of the earliest adopters. In addition to their wide-ranging institutional and mutual fund businesses, Parametric provides a separately managed account service for individual investors, Corporate L...
