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MarketAxess Holdings Inc. reports on its electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities, where institutional investors and broker-dealers trade across credit and rates products. Company updates commonly cover commission revenue, trading volume, average daily volume, variable transaction fees per million, and market-share data across U.S. high-grade, U.S. high-yield, emerging markets, eurobonds and portfolio trading activity.
MarketAxess news also includes developments in its Open Trading marketplace, automated and algorithmic trading tools, data and index products, post-trade services and technology integrations. Recurring announcements address partnerships that expand fixed-income workflow connectivity, access to institutional liquidity, primary issuance data, management changes, dividends, share repurchases and broader capital-allocation actions.
MarketAxess (NASDAQ:MKTX) reported strong Q2 2025 financial results, with record revenue of $219.5 million, up 11% year-over-year. The company achieved record commission revenue of $191.8 million, driven by a 10% increase in credit commission revenue and a 40% increase in rates commission revenue.
Notable achievements include record block trading volumes across U.S. credit, emerging markets, and eurobonds, along with a 69% increase in portfolio trading ADV to $1.5 billion. The company reported EPS of $1.91 (or $2.00 excluding notable items), representing an 11% increase. Operating expenses were $127.6 million, up 10% year-over-year.
The company maintained strong liquidity with $620.9 million in cash and investments and declared a quarterly dividend of $0.76 per share.
MarketAxess (Nasdaq: MKTX) reported strong trading volume statistics for July 2025, with total credit Average Daily Volume (ADV) growing 12% year-over-year, driven by a 21% increase in combined Emerging Markets and Eurobonds ADV.
Key highlights include a 32% increase in portfolio trading ADV to $1.3 billion, a 33% rise in dealer-initiated ADV to $1.5 billion, and 9% growth in block trading. The company's U.S. high-grade market share was 18.2%, down 50 basis points year-over-year. Variable transaction fees per million showed a slight decline in total credit and a marginal increase in rates compared to July 2024.
MarketAxess (Nasdaq: MKTX), a leading electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities, has announced significant enhancements to its dealer-initiated protocols, including the launch of Mid-X in US Credit and improvements to its Dealer RFQ protocol. The enhanced Mid-X protocol, which operates as an anonymous mid-point matching session, will be launched in September for US IG and HY Bonds.
The company reported impressive growth in its existing Mid-X protocol for emerging markets and eurobonds, with Q2 2025 volumes increasing 70% compared to Q2 2024. The enhanced protocol is powered by CP+™, MarketAxess's AI-powered real-time predictive pricing engine, and will feature a new one-step submit and trade protocol to improve trading efficiency and liquidity access.
MarketAxess (NASDAQ:MKTX) has achieved a significant milestone with the successful execution of the first electronic trade of Indian Government Bonds (IGBs) between BlackRock and Standard Chartered on its newly launched trading platform.
The platform, specifically designed for Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) and market makers, represents a major step in making India's onshore bond market more accessible and efficient. BlackRock's Head of International Trading highlighted the growing opportunities in India's bond market, particularly noting the increased interest due to inclusion in major global indices.
This development marks MarketAxess's strategic expansion in the Asian market, with the company's purpose-built solution aimed at meeting institutional investors' specific needs for trading Indian Government Bonds.
MarketAxess Holdings (Nasdaq: MKTX), a leading electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities, will release its Q2 2025 financial results on Wednesday, August 6, 2025, before market open.
CEO Chris Concannon and CFO Ilene Fiszel Bieler will host a conference call at 10:00 a.m. ET to discuss results and provide a strategic update. The call will be accessible via phone (646-307-1963, ID: 1832176) and webcast through the company's investor relations website.
MarketAxess (NASDAQ:MKTX), a leading electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities, reported record-breaking trading volumes for Q2 2025. The company achieved a historic milestone by surpassing $1 trillion in Total Credit quarterly trading volume and setting a new record of $2 trillion in Total Rates volume.
Key highlights include a 43% increase in Total Trading ADV to $49.0 billion in Q2 2025, driven by a 22% rise in Total Credit ADV to $16.8 billion and a 58% surge in Total Rates ADV to $32.2 billion. The platform demonstrated strong performance across multiple channels, with notable growth in block trading and portfolio trading activities. U.S. government bond trading ADV increased by 57% to $30.8 billion, capturing an estimated market share of 2.6%.
MarketAxess Holdings (Nasdaq: MKTX) has appointed Dean Berry as Group Chief Operating Officer and CEO of EMEA & APAC. Berry will oversee MarketAxess Global Operations, Risk, Product and Technology, while also leading the EMEA and APAC businesses. He joins from LSEG, where he served as Group Head of Workflows businesses and interim co-Head of Data & Analytics. Berry brings extensive experience as a fixed-income trader with previous roles at Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, and Société Générale, along with international experience from positions in Singapore, Tokyo, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, and London. He is expected to join MarketAxess in Q4 2025, based in London, reporting to CEO Chris Concannon.