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Advantages and Benefits

MarketAxess can help you achieve straight through processing (STP) with the most customizable and flexible approach to connectivity solutions available to the credit markets. Integrating your front and back-office systems has never been faster or more efficient with a complete suite of work flow solutions. 

MarketAxess’ STP tools allow you to create, negotiate and execute orders, deliver trade allocations to your dealer counterparty and receive allocation acknowledgements – all with seamless integration. With four main modules that can be customized and configured independently or concurrently, according to our client investors’ needs, connectivity can be achieved with ease.

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• FIX Messaging – messaging infrastructure that provides real-time bi-directional connectivity automating the entire trade process thus reducing error and maximizing efficiency.
• SOAP Web Service – interface that allows any system with access to the internet to have bi-directional connectivity to allow all trading and allocation activity to appear in MarketAxess.
• Excel Add-In – establishes a connection to the MarketAxess system that allows orders and allocations to be sent in, as well as orders, trades, and allocations to be downloaded directly.
• STP Messenger – a Windows-based service that disseminates real-time messages on trade executions, sub-account allocations and dealer acknowledgements.
• LiquidityBridge - Institutional clients can find nearly any connection they need through the LiquidityBridge library to quickly connect to multiple trading platforms and other systems. For more information, click here.

Industry Partnerships

To help buy-side and sell-side clients improve their connectivity throughout the trade cycle, MarketAxess has partnered with 6 of the leading order management systems (OMS) providers.

• Linedata Services
• Charles River
• ITG
• Bloomberg
• LatentZero
• Decalog

Dealer Connectivity

In addition to providing an assortment of investor client solutions, MarketAxess offers Application Programming Interface (API) services to our dealer clients for pre-trade, trade execution and post-trade services. Dealer APIs are effective in improving trading efficiencies and reducing trade processing errors.