Having previously provided anonymous liquidity through MarketAxess’ Open Trading marketplace, Flow Traders is now becoming a name-disclosed liquidity provider on the MarketAxess trading platform for global credit trading products. This ultimately allows institutional investor clients to select Flow Traders by name when submitting a disclosed inquiry, enhancing anonymous liquidity already provided through Open Trading.
Ramon Balje, head of fixed income EMEA, Flow Traders, said, “The evolution in the corporate bond market continues to accelerate, mainly driven by developments in technology and the availability of higher quality data. Flow Traders is a strong advocate of bringing greater transparency, cost reduction and improved efficiency. Therefore, we’re thrilled to expand our offering by becoming an active liquidity provider on the MarketAxess trading platform.”
Flow Traders is also actively contributing streaming prices in US high yield to the MarketAxess Live Markets order book. Using the anonymous all-to-all Open Trading marketplace, Live Markets provides a single view of two-way, actionable prices for active US investment grade and US high yield bonds, including recently issued debt, benchmark issues and news-driven securities. Live Markets lets institutional credit investors and dealers place resting live orders in the market and engage firm prices provided by dealers and investors with a single click. Flow Traders joins Barclays, Goldman Sachs and another streaming liquidity provider as dedicated market makers for Live Markets.
Matheus Pereira, head of fixed income Americas, Flow Traders, commented, “We are delighted to become a name-disclosed liquidity provider on the MarketAxess trading platform. This is another proof point that market participants are looking to connect with alternative liquidity providers like Flow Traders. To expand our offering on MarketAxess further, we will also be contributing streaming prices for US high yield corporate bonds to the Live Markets order book, another mark of our commitment to innovation.”
Richard Schiffman, head of open trading with MarketAxess, added, “Flow Traders is a true change maker, bringing new and important sources of liquidity to the market, and we’re thrilled to be working with them in all aspects of trading on our platform. Matched with our unparalleled global network and innovative Open Trading solutions, Flow Traders brings meaningful pricing capabilities to our global network of institutional investors and dealers.”
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