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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

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.

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

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

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.

Trading, Data and Analytics

Octaura

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Octaura is a leading provider of electronic trading, data, and analytics solutions for syndicated loans. Founded as an independent company in 2022, Octaura represents a significant milestone in the advancement of trade modernization for these markets through common operational criteria, automation across pre- and post-trade life cycles, improved ease in transactions and advanced data and analytics. To learn more, visit octaura.com.

TCA & Trade Analytics

ChartIQ I S&P Global

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ChartIQ is a data visualization and charting solution that brings any dataset to life with interactive graphic displays designed for the financial industry. Retail brokerages and trading platforms use ChartIQ to elevate their user’s trading experience. Financial institutions and banks use ChartIQ to provide their end users with powerful data visualization tools that facilitates discovery of critical information. ChartIQ is now a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. Learn more: spglobal.com.

Liquidity & Trading

FX Connect

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FX Connect is part of GlobalLink – a suite of market-leading e-trading platforms, technology, data and workflow solutions from State Street Corporation. FX Connect is a market-leading FX execution venue that helps real money managers and hedge funds efficiently manage multiple portfolios, connect with counterparties and streamline global trading operations. Learn more: www.fxconnect.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.

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.

Liquidity & Trading

Luminex Trading

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Luminex Trading & Analytics offers low-cost trading and superior execution quality with minimal information leakage by interacting only with venue-approved participants. Our collaborative approach seeks to improves trust, liquidity, and control, and help buy side traders execute large block trades with little market impact. Rather than retain profits for the benefit of consortium members, Luminex is committed to reinvesting excess cash flow to deliver continued improvements in trading performance. Learn more: www.luminextrading.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.

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/IA.

Liquidity & Trading

360T

360T is uniquely positioned to help connect the global FX industry via our proprietary suite of web-based technology solutions. Part of Deutsche Börse Group, we are a fully regulated entity offering access to the complete spectrum of FX and Short-Term Money Market products, in addition to listed derivatives. Our suite of innovative products and services enables clients to streamline their workflows across the entire trade lifecycle, reduce operational risks and enhance their execution outcomes. Learn more: 360t.com.