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Asia Credit’s structural shift: What’s powering the market’s evolution

Trader’s Table event highlight: Backed by resilient macro fundamentals and a strong primary market, Asia Credit is staging a solid recovery in 2025. Cathy Cai, Senior Sales Relationship Manager, shares her outlook on the evolving landscape, how MarketAxess’ data and protocol solutions support market makers, and key takeaways from a Trader’s Table discussion on the fixed income market landscape in 2025. 

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Originally published on The TRADE | July 11, 2025

Fireside Friday with MarketAxess’ Riad Chowdhury and Paulo Costa

Riad Chowdhury, Head of Asia-Pacific, and Paulo Costa, Global Head of Data Sales, sits down with The TRADE to discuss the importance of data transparency across fixed income. Diving specifically into its potential impact across the APAC sphere, possible challenges posed by the region and what the buy-side is thinking.  

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Seizing the opportunity How electronic trading is enabling larger trades in Asia Credit

Asia Credit is trading bigger—and smarter. In this article, Andre Cherbonnier, Head of Sales, Singapore at MarketAxess, explores how technology and data innovations are enabling larger, more efficient trades across the region.

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Originally published on WatersTechnology | 27 June 2025

Shaping tomorrow’s fixed-income landscape with Targeted RFQ

Riad Chowdhury, Head of Asia-Pacific, and Dan Burke, Global Head of Emerging Markets, sit down with WatersTechnology to discuss e-trends in EM fixed income, and how AI fits into the enhancement of Targeted RFQ.

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Bridging the gap: How automation is empowering Asian private banks

In today’s increasingly complex and fragmented fixed income landscape, private banks in APAC face a unique set of challenges when trading fixed income securities. Axess IQ and Axess IQ Lite bridge the gap in enabling smarter and more efficient trading.

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From high-touch to low-touch: The evolution of fixed income e-trading in APAC

Kai Chang, Head of Trading Hong Kong at Ninety One, speaks with Tricia Chan, our Senior Sales Relationship Manager, about how e-trading has become an essential toolkit for their desk—from low- and high-touch trading to the expanding role of data.
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The Evolution of Bond Trading in Japan

As Japanese investors seek newer, higher-yielding opportunities away from home, electronic trading is playing an increasingly important role in how they navigate the global market challenges today. We explore this in our latest white paper that was published in collaboration with Coalition Greenw...

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The transformation of China’s onshore bond market

Setting the scene: Fixed income in ChinaChina’s fixed income market has continued to thrive and flourish despite recent volatility in global fixed income markets. Relative to other Emerging Markets, investors and traders have been benefitting from the People’s Bank of China (PBOC)’s accommodating...

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Market analysis: What’s next for Asian bond markets?

In the fourth edition of the Asian international bond markets report, ICMA leverages MarketAxess TraX® data to provide an updated overview and analysis of secondary market trends in the region.
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What 2023 taught us about the APAC bond markets

As we navigate the early days of 2024, it's helpful to take stock of the year gone by—a year that was replete with global events and policy decisions that have left an indelible mark on the Asia-Pacific bond markets. Let’s delve into the economic undercurrents of 2023 and cast an eye ...

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Achieving data democracy in APAC fixed income markets

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...

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Why data matters for the Asian fixed income markets

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...

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Navigating the Asian bond markets: a report by ICMA

The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) released its latest edition of the Asian International Bond Markets report, and MarketAxess is proud to be a contributor for the third consecutive year. This report leverages our TraX data to provide global market stakeholders with an updated ov...

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