Stellantis’ February reset drove sharper, persistent spread widening than auto peers, while bid-ask widths recovered and Open Trading® indicators remained comparatively resilient over time overall.
Executive SummaryMarket impact is measurable and manageable. It is driven by liquidity, size, and execution choice.Median post-trade impact is 13% of the bid-ask spread in US HG and 11% in EUR IG.Liquidity matters most: low-liquidity US HG bonds show nearly twice the median impact of high-liquidi...
Block trading is increasingly being done electronically. Gareth Coltman, Head of Product, EMEA and APAC, MarketAxess, explores what's driving this trend and why it will continue.
AI is reshaping how trading decisions are made across the fragmented fixed income markets, being integrated into pricing, liquidity discovery and execution workflows. Julien Alexandre, Global Head of Research at MarketAxess, outlines the key developments and explores where AI in fixed income might go next.
CP has once again ranked among the top pricing providers in the 2025 SSC Fixed Income Evaluations Benchmark Study. Chisom Amalunweze, Senior Manager of Quant Research, explains how CP secured this ranking and provides clients with the reliable pricing they need to navigate today's markets with confidence.
Originally published on Markets Media | December 3, 2025
Steve Tait, Head of US Dealer Execution Business at MarketAxess, explains what’s behind the growing success of the Mid-X protocol.
The long end of the US investment grade curve is quietly transforming. Curve steepening has created attractive yields while liquidity has dramatically improved—RFQ responses have nearly doubled and spreads have tightened significantly. With enhanced tools and deeper markets, long-duration trading is more accessible than ever.
Kat Sweeney, Global Head of ETFs and Data Solutions at MarketAxess, sat down with Jeff Lenamon, Head of Portfolio Construction and Senior Portfolio Manager at DWS, for a conversation on how innovation is reshaping ETF management. Their discussion centered on how DWS is leveraging CP technology to enhance ETF performance, integrating it into both daily workflows and the create/redeem process.
While conventional AI chatbots can't tell you when to portfolio trade, We can. Our platform combines real-time market data with AI-driven tools like CP+™ pricing and Tradability metrics to guide your execution decisions. From pre-trade cost estimates to post-trade analysis, discover how our comprehensive data suite helps you choose the optimal trading protocol and achieve better outcomes for every bond transaction.
A decision that clients often face is which trading route to take—a high touch or low touch approach. The latest innovation is the opportunity to execute larger trades with strong execution, while gaining the transparency, competitive pricing and straight through processing benefits of e-trading.
We're out with the next installment of our 2025 Outlooks, with our Data and Technology experts forecasting key trends shaping their sectors in 2025. Will policy have an impact on fixed income in 2025? See what our featured leaders are forecasting for fixed income within Technology and Data.
CP+, our AI-powered algorithmic pricing engine for the global credit and rates markets, is an integral part of the MarketAxess trading system and a critical data input and pricing source for multiple trading protocols. CP+ consumes millions of data points across various sources to help power solutions like Auto-X™ and Portfolio Trading. Beyond fuelling trading protocols, CP+ delivers consistent and unbiased data to help provide value across the entire investment lifecycle for traders, portfolio managers and quants.
This AxessPoint takes a look at intraday liquidity trends and the factors that impact this activity. A deep dive reveals that access to liquidity is strong throughout the trading day as indicated by cost of trading and depth of liquidity. We start by looking at market liquidity through the traded...
Highlights:The unique position of MarketAxess as a leading electronic trading platform allows CP+ to leverage insights from both trades and non-traded inquiries.Our analysis reveals that on-platform trades are more reliable inputs for CP+ than off-platform trades and that even inquiries that Did ...
Highlights and objectives We aim to investigate any key drivers of Portfolio Trading (PT) Trading Cost Analysis (TCA) outcomes, as measured by PT price outcomes versus CP+™ side. An analysis of PT features found no meaningful driver of TCA outcomes for PTs across ETF overlap and L...
In a rapidly changing and interconnected world, transparency in financial markets is more crucial than ever. We recently hosted a discussion titled “Transparency in APAC fixed income markets” in collaboration with the Asia Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association (ASIFMA) t...
Institutional firms investing in Asia’s fixed income markets face the unique challenge of dealing with a wide range of countries and investor segments. They also are challenged with the availability and transparency of data. During times of heightened market volatility amid an uncertain ec...
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...
Following our win as Best Bond Trading Platform at the Asia Asset Management’s Best of the Best Awards for the third consecutive year, Christophe Roupie, CEO of EMEA and APAC, and Riad Chowdhury, Head of APAC, talked to the publication about the innovations behind our continued success, and...
