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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) has expanded its AI-powered pricing engine, CP+, to cover municipal bonds. The system leverages proprietary data from the MarketAxess trading platform, TraX® market data, and public sources like TRACE to provide real-time pricing for approximately 930,000 municipal bonds.
The expansion aims to deliver accurate and unbiased reference pricing for MSRB-reportable municipal bonds, enhancing transparency and efficiency in the historically fragmented municipal bond market. CP+, which was first introduced in 2017, serves as a critical data input for multiple MarketAxess trading protocols and solutions, including Auto-X™ and Portfolio Trading.
MarketAxess Holdings (Nasdaq: MKTX) reported its November 2024 trading statistics, achieving a total average daily volume (ADV) of $44.9 billion, up 56% year-over-year but down 3% from October 2024. Total rates ADV reached $30.7 billion, showing a 112% increase from the previous year. Total credit ADV was $14.3 billion, flat year-over-year but down 5% from October.
Notable achievements include record emerging markets ADV of $3.8 billion (up 15% YoY) and record municipal bond ADV of $631 million (up 5% YoY). The company's portfolio trading solution showed positive engagement with 21 dealers and 26 long-only clients, with average trade size over $4 million notional. A record 76% of portfolio trading volume was executed on X-Pro.
MarketAxess Holdings (Nasdaq: MKTX), a leading electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities, has announced its participation in the Goldman Sachs Financial Services Conference. CEO Chris Concannon and CFO Ilene Fiszel Bieler will engage in a fireside chat on December 11, 2024, at 8:40 a.m. ET.
The event will be accessible through a live webcast, with a replay available on the MarketAxess Investor Relations website's events and presentations section.
MarketAxess Holdings (Nasdaq: MKTX) announced that Founder and Executive Chairman Rick McVey will retire at the end of the year, with Carlos Hernandez succeeding as Chairman effective January 1, 2025. McVey, who founded MarketAxess in 2000 and stepped down as CEO in April 2023, will remain as Chairman of MarketAxess , the company's international holding company. Hernandez, who previously served as a Director from 2006 to 2019 and rejoined in September 2023, retired from JPMorgan in April 2023 after 37 years, where he was Executive Chair of Investment and Corporate Banking.
MarketAxess Holdings (Nasdaq: MKTX) reported strong Q3 2024 financial results with total revenues increasing 20% to $206.7 million. The company achieved a 30% increase in diluted EPS to $1.90 on net income of $71.5 million. Key highlights include 24% growth in U.S. high-grade commission revenue, 20% growth in emerging markets, and record portfolio trading ADV of $1.1 billion. Total expenses rose 14% to $119.7 million. The company maintained strong liquidity with $602.5 million in cash and investments, while declaring a quarterly dividend of $0.74 per share.
MarketAxess Holdings (Nasdaq: MKTX) reported record total trading average daily volume (ADV) of $46.2 billion in October 2024, up 40% year-over-year. Total credit ADV reached $15.0 billion (+19% YoY), while record total rates ADV hit $31.2 billion (+54% YoY). Despite record trading volumes, U.S. high-grade market share declined to 18.0% from 20.3% last year. The company achieved record total trading volume of $1.0 trillion, increasing 47% from the previous year. Preliminary fee capture for total credit improved to $154 per million, up from $153 year-over-year.
MarketAxess Holdings (Nasdaq: MKTX) and S&P Global Market Intelligence have announced a strategic data partnership to enhance fixed-income market transparency. The collaboration involves integrating S&P Global Bond Reference Data into MarketAxess's data products and incorporating MarketAxess CP+™ real-time pricing into S&P Global's Evaluated Bond Pricing. The partnership combines S&P Global's evaluation of over 1.2 million bonds with MarketAxess CP+'s AI-powered real-time pricing, which provides updates every 15-60 seconds. The data integration is set to begin in the first half of 2025.
MarketAxess Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: MKTX), a leading electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities, has announced it will release its third quarter 2024 financial results on Wednesday, November 6, 2024, before the market opens. The company will host a conference call at 10:00 a.m. ET on the same day to discuss the results and provide a strategic update.
Key executives participating in the call include Chris Concannon (CEO), Richard Schiffman (Global Head of Trading Solutions), and Ilene Fiszel Bieler (CFO). Investors can access the call by dialing 646-307-1963 (U.S./International) and using the ID 1832176. Additionally, a live audio webcast will be available on the Investor Relations section of the MarketAxess website, with an archive available for 90 days following the announcement.
MarketAxess Holdings (Nasdaq: MKTX), a leading electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities, reported record trading volumes for September and Q3 2024.
Key Highlights:
- Record total average daily volume (ADV) of $45.2 billion in September, up 52.5% YoY.
- Total credit ADV of $16.5 billion, up 40.1% YoY.
- U.S. high-grade ADV of $8.4 billion, up 56.2% YoY.
- U.S. high-yield ADV of $1.4 billion, up 8.1% YoY.
- Portfolio trading ADV reached $1.1 billion.
- Open Trading ADV of $4.8 billion, up 46.8% YoY.
- Municipal bond ADV of $577 million, up 35.1% YoY.
- Total rates ADV of $28.7 billion, up 60.7% YoY.
- Preliminary variable transaction fees per million (FPM) for total credit at $150, slightly down from $151 YoY.
CEO Chris Concannon highlighted the robust market volumes, strong new issue calendar, and the successful roll-out of X-Pro to their global client base as key drivers of growth.
MarketAxess Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: MKTX) has announced an expansion of its decade-long partnership with BlackRock to enhance connectivity and efficiency in global credit markets. The collaboration will integrate MarketAxess credit trading protocols, pricing, and data into BlackRock's Aladdin® order execution management system (OEMS). This builds on their existing partnership in Open Trading and MarketAxess analytics that began in 2013.
The integration aims to provide common clients of Aladdin and MarketAxess with an improved trading experience through native integration of select MarketAxess credit protocols within the Aladdin platform. The partnership will bring MarketAxess' latest automation protocols, including Adaptive Auto-X, RFQ solutions, Open Trading, and Live Markets central limit order book directly to Aladdin clients.