Contact a Representative Would you like to speak to a salesperson or dealer relationship manager for more information? Click here to contact. Credit Awards Winner The annual Credit Awards survey is a benchmark for performance in the global credit industry. Independently surveying the largest institutional credit investors in the U.S. and Europe, Credit Magazine awarded MarketAxess best CDS trading platform in both regions.

Since launching the first client to multi-dealer platform for CDS indices in September 2005, MarketAxess has grown its product offering into an award-winning, all-inclusive destination for electronic CDS trade execution. Built on superior technology and positioned to address market growth, MarketAxess helps both institutional investors and broker-dealers deliver trading efficiencies to expand their businesses.

Client to Multi-dealer Trading

Built upon five years of experience in list trading and sourcing our deep pool of dealer liquidity, MarketAxess offers clients the ability to execute large lists of CDS single-names, in addition to trading CDS indices. The fully-electronic process helps reduce errors and increases efficiency by orders of magnitude compared to traditional methods of emailing and faxing spreadsheets. Key features include:

• Instant access to multiple leading global dealers
• CDS index trading in U.S. (CDX) and Europe (iTraxx)
• CDS single-name list trading built on MarketAxess’ proven cash list trading protocol
• Post-trade message capabilities and Excel spreadsheet downloads
• CDS EM single-name trading

Inter-dealer Trading

MarketAxess offers dealer-to-dealer CDS trading through the DealerAxess® trading platform, including CDS indices and single-name CDS in both the corporate and emerging markets sectors. Broker-dealer traders are able to experience the same speed and efficiency trading on DealerAxess® as they realize by trading cash bonds on the electronic platform.