The Evolution of OEMS Strategies and Front-to-Back Platforms

Portfolio & Risk Analytics

MSCI

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MSCI is a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community. With over 50 years of expertise in research, data and technology, we power better investment decisions by enabling clients to understand and analyze key drivers of risk and return and confidently build more effective portfolios. We create industry-leading research-enhanced solutions that clients use to gain insight into and improve transparency across the investment process. Learn more: www.msci.com.

Portfolio & Risk Analytics

Axioma

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SimCorp is a provider of industry-leading integrated investment management solutions for the global buy side. Founded in 1971, with more than 3,000 employees across five continents, SimCorp is a truly global technology leader that empowers more than half of the world’s top 100 financial companies through its integrated platform, services, and partner ecosystem. Learn more: simcorp.com.

The Axioma analytics suite provides portfolio construction and risk management solutions to a global client base which includes asset managers, asset owners, hedge funds and wealth managers. The offering comprises an advanced financial optimizer, a comprehensive suite of factor risk models, performance attribution, backtesting and stress testing tools.

Data

RIMES

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Rimes is an award-winning data management specialist that truly understands the challenges faced by its clients. It supports over 350 asset managers, owners, servicers and banks in 45 countries including 60 of the 100 largest global asset managers by AUM and 9 of the top 10 asset servicers in the world. The company is headquartered in New York with 14 offices worldwide. Learn more: rimes.com

Primary Markets

DirectBooks

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DirectBooks leverages its technology expertise and market knowledge to optimize global financing markets. We are simplifying the primary issuance process for fixed income by streamlining communications workflows for underwriters and institutional investors. DirectBooks was formed by 9 global banks, consisting of Bank of America (NYSE:BAC), Barclays (NYSE:BCS), BNP Paribas (FR:BNP), Citi (NYSE:C), Deutsche Bank (NYSE:DB), Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS), J.P. Morgan (NYSE:JPM), Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS), Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC). A complete list of participating underwriting firms can be found on our website. Learn more at DirectBooks.com

Liquidity & Trading

MarketAxess

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MarketAxess operates a leading, institutional electronic trading platform delivering expanded liquidity opportunities, improved execution quality and significant cost savings across global fixed-income markets. A global network of over 1,800 firms, including the world’s leading asset managers and institutional broker-dealers, leverages MarketAxess’ patented trading technology to efficiently trade bonds. MarketAxess’ award-winning Open Trading™ marketplace is regarded as the preferred all-to-all trading solution in the global credit markets, creating a unique liquidity pool for a broad range of credit market participants. Drawing on its deep data and analytical resources, MarketAxess provides automated trading solutions, market data products and a range of pre- and post-trade services. MarketAxess is headquartered in New York and has offices in London, Amsterdam, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco, São Paulo, Hong Kong and Singapore. Learn more: marketaxess.com.

Liquidity & Trading

OTCX Trading

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OTCX is the leading bilateral workflow solution for price discovery and negotiation of OTC derivatives and structured products. With its intuitive user interface, Buy Side firms can seamlessly communicate in a structured format their trading interest with their respective Liquidity Providers. The platform’s flexible trade capture, wide range of trading formats and extensive APIs set new standards in OTC trading and remove the dependence on manual processes and fragmented audit trails. OTCX will help you leverage your trading workflows through powerful pre-trade, in-trade and post-trade analytics. We are transforming OTC Derivative trading. Learn more: otcxtrading.com.

Liquidity & Trading

MTS

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MTS is one of Europe’s leading facilitators of electronic fixed income markets, connecting a network of over 500 unique counterparties across Europe and the US, with average daily volumes exceeding €130 billion in 2020. MTS is part of the Euronext Group. Learn more: mtsmarkets.com

About MTS BondsPro
MTS BondsPro is an electronic trading platform that offers access to liquidity and real-time execution on its anonymous, all-to-all order book. It supports USD and a wide range of non-USD denominated corporate bonds and emerging market debt. MTS BondsPro is part of MTS Markets International, Inc. (MMI), a FINRA-registered broker-dealer. MMI is a member of FINRA and SIPC.

Liquidity & Trading

LTX

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LTX is a Broadridge company offering a new AI-driven digital trading platform for corporate bonds that empowers broker-dealers and institutional investors to trade smarter. Building on the market-leading data entrusted to Broadridge, LTX combines powerful AI with next-gen trading protocols that digitize complex processes to improve market liquidity, efficiency, and best execution. Our leadership team brings over 150 years of experience in fixed income trading, with deep expertise in electronic trading, data science and AI. Learn more: ltxtrading.com.

TCA & Trade Analytics

BestX®

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BestX® is a Technology Company, with a simple fee based model, creating state of the art software to provide real-time, interactive analytics. We provide our clients with a level playing field to enable them to assess and compare the quality of their FX, Fixed Income and Equities transactions. BestX provides a totally open-architecture analytics service operating autonomously from any liquidity provider or execution venue. BestX is recognized by more than 120 of the world’s largest Asset Managers, Hedge Funds, Sovereign Wealth Funds and Banks as the Industry Standard for TCA & Best Execution Analytics.

BestX was acquired by State Street in September 2018 and is domiciled within their GlobalLink business. GlobalLink is recognized across the industry as a standalone technology services provider, alongside other State Street market utilities such as FXConnect & Fund Connect. The acquisition will enable BestX to respond swiftly to client demand to expand our existing analytics and deliver a truly multi-asset TCA platform. Learn more at bestx.co.uk

Liquidity & Trading

Tradeweb

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Tradeweb Markets Inc. (Nasdaq: TW) is a leading, global operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money markets. Founded in 1996, Tradeweb provides access to markets, data and analytics, electronic trading, straight-through-processing and reporting for more than 50 products to clients in the institutional, wholesale and retail markets. Advanced technologies developed by Tradeweb enhance price discovery, order execution and trade workflows while allowing for greater scale and helping to reduce risks in client trading operations. Tradeweb serves more than 2,500 clients in more than 70 countries. On average, Tradeweb facilitated more than $1.4 trillion in notional value traded per day over the past four quarters. Learn more: tradeweb.com.

Data & Analytics

Liquidnet Investment Analytics

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Investment Analytics (IA) is Liquidnet’s solutions business that provides tools to investments teams to help them make decisions and build conviction. Our IA solutions combine innovative AI technologies, such as machine learning and natural language processing, with a wide array of data and content, designed to help decision-making, workflow efficiency, and performance. To learn more about IA, visit: liquidnet.com.

Liquidity & Trading

Neptune

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At Neptune Networks, we deliver high-quality bond market data from sell-side banks to buy-side clients. Our technology enables real-time connectivity between banks and investors which leads to meaningful conversations, satisfying the immediate requirements of each party and ultimately, increasing trade volumes. We are uniquely positioned in the marketplace, as we have bilateral commitment from buy-side and sell-side, including representatives of each sitting on our board. Learn more: www.neptunefi.com.

Data

BondCliq

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BondCliQ is the first consolidated, institutional quote system for the corporate bond market. The platform’s unique protocols facilitate broader access to critical institutional pricing information while incrementally improving the quality of pre-trade data. The solution is specifically designed to work collaboratively with other technology partners to accelerate distribution and enhance institutional corporate bond trading workflow. BondCliQ offers several options for consuming pre-trade institutional pricing data and post-trade TRACE information. Learn more: bondcliq.com.

Liquidity & Trading

Trumid

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Trumid is a financial technology company building tomorrow’s trading network. The company optimizes the credit trading experience by combining agile technology and market expertise, with a focus on product design. The result is a differentiated and easy to use trading solution for its community of users. Learn more: trumid.com.

Data

ICE

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By combining world class technology with leading data services and operating expertise, we add transparency and enable customer efficiency gains that advance both our networks and solutions for customers. As our electronic markets and demand for clearing grew, access to new sources of information became central to our customers. We saw this evolution and consistently we advanced our capabilities, building a data business which is complementary to every part of our solution. Learn more: theice.com.