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Bonds.com integrates RFQ into corporate bonds order book

Bonds.com has added a request for quote (RFQ) protocol to its corporate bond order book, using MultiLynq’s multi-dealer messaging and connectivity capabilities.

Bonds.com expands platform & launches new matching protocol following 50% volume growth in 2025

Today we are proud to announce that we have expanded the bonds.com platform with the launch of a new matching protocol, following more than 50% year-on-year volume growth in 2025.

J.P. Morgan: Survey Reveals Specific Growth Opportunities for Fixed Income E-Trading

Expectations of volatility jump as traders across the market seek liquidity and cost management through single dealer platforms.

J.P. Morgan: Survey Reveals Specific Growth Opportunities for Fixed Income E-Trading

Expectations of volatility jump as traders across the market seek liquidity and cost management through single dealer platforms.

Fixed Income Automation Surge: 60% of Credit Traders Now Use Robots

The electronification of fixed income markets is accelerating, driven by increased adoption of automated trading systems, with 60 per cent of credit market participants now using automated execution – up sharply from 40 per cent in previous years, according to Barclays’ latest market structure survey.

J.P. Morgan: Finding the Best Path in E-Trading Fixed Income

Electronic trading may resolve key structural challenges in the market for buy-side traders, including instrument selection, with guidance from key dealers.

Ten Years of Research: Lessons for Trading Platforms in Fixed Income

Lessons on the viability and competitiveness of liquidity aggregation tools can be drawn form the last decade of research conducted by The DESK.

TS Imagine Data Shows Major Shifts in Fixed Income Trading

TS Imagine, a global multi-asset SaaS platform offering portfolio and risk management, electronic trading, and prime brokerage solutions for the buy- and sell side, today released new year-over-year data from its TradeSmart fixed income execution management system (EMS) showing that fixed income electronification continues to accelerate and trading behavior continues to evolve.

2024 Buy-Side Fixed Income Technology Innovation: A Matter of Workflows

“There’s been a significant step up in trading technology sophistication within fixed income in recent years. This rapid uptick in electronification is supported largely by the proliferation of robust, non-standardized electronic trade data and the emergence of AI-driven tools and trading solutions…”

Partnering to revolutionize the buy-side trading experience

“Seeing the value that MTS streaming data & executable markets has added to our clients’ workflow, once within TS Imagine, is tremendously satisfying.”

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The Corporate Bond Market Favors Revolution Over Evolution

“…there needs to be more centralized liquidity and easier access to different pools in a single place. It is also worth noting that it’s not just about liquidity, but also about prices: what is the real market-wide price for a given security, and how deep is it?”

Electronic trading for corporate bonds – enhancing efficiency and addressing brokerage costs

“BondsPro’s all-to-all nature ensures that traders have broader access to a diverse pool of counterparties through a single interface, and without a huge price tag.”

Revolution over evolution: The corporate bonds landscape

“The all-to-all model allows the market to become more consolidated and improves access of traders to traders. It shortens the search process and provides greater access to liquidity. It also helps spread market information around prices more broadly, which helps to get people more comfortable with taking risk in the asset class. And importantly, within the all-to-all model more nuanced information streams and styles of trading can reside, all relying on and interfacing with the broader market as appropriate.”

All-to-all trading: the corporate bond market revolution

“After a long period of frustration, the market today is finally at a tipping point where the confluence of technology, data, and interconnectivity are winning the battle against fragmentation.”

Corporate Bond Electronification: Echoes of The Boom

“The electronification of the US corporate bond market is bringing faster, more efficient trading and opening up the way for new tools such as automation and data-driven trading models.Seeing the value that MTS streaming data & executable markets has added to our clients’ workflow, once within TS Imagine, is tremendously satisfying.”

US Corporate Bond Trading in 2017: This Time It Really Is Different, But We Need to Work Together

“We are at the tipping point where technology and interconnectivity are finally winning the battle against fragmentation.”

BondsPro Bridges Global Markets with Launch of 22-Hour Trading Day

“We take our role in helping to enhance market liquidity and maximizing trading opportunities for clients seriously. Extending trading hours to maintain a global market around-the-clock will further support this [effort].”

BondsPro Expands Access In Frontier And Emerging Markets

“This is an important step to support diversity of interest in the US corporate bond market, a sign of growing global electronic volumes and a reflection of the increasing appeal of the all-to-all trading model for fixed income securities.”

BondsPro Targets Emerging Markets with Mexican Bonds Expansion

“We are delighted to extend access to our rapidly growing MTS BondsPro global fixed income community to a wider set of global market participants. This is a sign of growing global electronic volumes and a reflection of the increasing appeal of the all-to-all trading model for fixed income traders.”

BondsPro to Offer US Corporate Bonds to Swiss Market

“By enabling Swiss market participants to trade in MTS BondsPro’s liquidity pool, we continue to further diversify the network for the benefit of the market overall.”

BondsPro Gains Direct Trading Access to Bloomberg TSOX

“Vendor becomes first unaffiliated electronic platform to have a direct access trading connection to Bloomberg TSOX.”

BondsPro Integrates with TradingScreen for Greater Client Accesibility

“Fitting into the bespoke workflow that each customer develops on their own accord is critical. Through this partnership, we will continue to offer an accessible, integrated service for trading.”

TORA OEMS deepens Fixed Income offering with BondsPro integration

“Integrating with TORA’s advanced OEMS is very exciting for the MTS BondsPro business, as it makes liquidity via our platform more widely available to the market and easily accessible to TORA’s global client base.”

Charles River® IMS Integrates with MTS BondsPro ATS, Enabling All-to-All Access Across Global Fixed Income Markets

“Offering our customers the ability to interact with our markets in the most natural way, as defined by each client, has never been more important.”

MMI Head of Sales Interviewed by Andy Nybo, Tabb Group

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BondCliQ users get BondsPro data for US credit market

“This is a natural step towards establishing better price transparency by consolidating and centralising corporate bond pre-trade information.”

BondsPro and BondCliQ launch liquidity mapping tool for US corporate bonds

“This is the perfect collaboration between MTS’ heritage in electronic fixed income and innovative new approaches to providing traders and portfolio managers with the tools they need.”

Best Collaboration Initiative – BondsPro and Bloomberg TSOX

“the collaboration with Bloomberg is part of MMI’s and LSEG’s commitment to provide market participants with greater market access and to meet the market’s demand for tighter trading front-end and liquidity integrationThis is the perfect collaboration between MTS’ heritage in electronic fixed income and innovative new approaches to providing traders and portfolio managers with the tools they need.”

Best Partnership or Alliance – BondsPro & Bloomberg

“[Users] benefit from increased price discovery by way of real-time ticking bond prices and more streamlined trading options through the platform’s click-to-trade function, with the ability to leave anonymous resting orders directly from their terminals.”

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Wall Street’s Tech-Powered Bond Trades Hit Record $1 Trillion

A tech-powered approach to bond trading that helps firms move hundreds of securities in one go has just posted its best year yet.

Corporate-Bond Trading Gets Frenzied as More Volume Goes Digital

Credit trading volumes reached a fresh record in 2024 and could hit a new high this year, potentially resulting in lower borrowing costs for US companies.

All-to-All Trading Thrives as Markets Face Volatility, Report Finds

The growth reflects increasing buy-side demand for all-to-all trading, particularly driven by the corporate bond market, according to the latest Coalition Greenwich report.

Aided by AI & the Electronification of the Fixed Income Markets

Data Vendors’ Fixed Income Sales & Trading Revenues Hit $7.3 Billion in 2024, up 7.9%. This is a direct sequel to TabbFORUM’s content already featured in your “In the Press” section and is from the same publisher.

The TRADE Predictions Series 2025: Technology Is King

The TRADE sits down with experts from BMLL, MarketAxess, Adaptive, The Broker Club, Bloomberg, LMAX Group to discuss the ever-evolving technology landscape, wherein innovation is set to be more important than ever.

Three Rising Fixed Income Trade Lifecycle Trends for H2 2025

The fixed income markets are evolving at speed, according to LSEG attendees at a recent fixed income conference in Washington DC. Key observed trends included continued electronification of fixed income trading – such as the leverage loan trading making market potentially more liquid and transparent.

The Quant Revolution Comes for Fixed Income

The fixed income market is undergoing a full-scale transformation as quantitative strategies, once the domain of equities and derivatives, begin to reshape how bonds and credit products are priced, traded, and risk-managed.

Bond Investor Demand for Automation and APIs Grows

For the corporate bond market, the last decade was about the growth of electronic trading. The buy side wants the next to be about automation.

Top Market Structure Trends to Watch in 2026

Every year since the 2020 inflection point, the pace of change has felt monumental, and 2025 was no different. Endless artificial intelligence (AI) innovation, a complete change in regulatory posture in the U.S., trading volume records in nearly every market, and economic growth expectations despite bubble concerns made 2025 a year to remember.

What to expect in fixed income – part two

Thought leaders from TransFICC, Tradeweb and Bloomberg explore the next chapter for fixed income, touching on the changing regulatory landscape, the dealer to client and dealer to dealer space, emerging markets and more.

Credit trading finally exits the Dark Ages

“After decades of inertia, corporate bond trading has evolved by leaps and bounds in the last several years. Frankly, it’s pretty remarkable how far it’s come.”

Understanding Fixed-Income Markets in 2023

“Fixed-income markets are the lifeblood of the global economy”

The future of fixed income is electronic

“In the U.S., electronic volume has been steadily growing with the greatest impact on corporate and municipal bonds. New regulations, an explosion of new datasets and demand for greater efficiency are driving growth.”

Fixed Income Trading Shifts To All-to-All

“The share of bond electronic trading venues offering buy-side firms the opportunity to act as price-makers…illustrates that…change has happened, and continues to happen at a rapid pace.”

Electronic trading in U.S. corporate bonds is finally taking off

“We’ve had 20 years of innovation,” said Wendy Wyatt, a portfolio manager at DuPont Capital, of the slow embrace of corporate bond trading in the digital age. “There were hard hurdles that needed to be overcome.”

Winning the Technology Race in Fixed Income

“BondsPro’s David Parker expects dealers to move to an “electronic first” mentality around executions and for this pattern to migrate down the liquidity spectrum. He also expects investors to start using technology to set up and monitor hedges.”

Bond traders swap phones for new technology as market catches up

“Proponents say the shift to electronic and automated trading should make the bond market more transparent, lower costs for the ultimate buyers – asset managers like pension funds – and give fund firms power held by banks to get the best prices.”

Record E-Trading Brings More Liquidity to Corporate Bond Market

“Investors say improved algos keep bid-ask spreads narrow.”

Buy-side bond traders reevaluating traditional RFQ model

“Latest study from Liquidnet suggests a shift in sell-side relationships is threatening defacto RFQ model.”

Pandemic propels old-school bond traders towards an electronic future

“Electronic trading – where transactions are carried out using software on online platforms, rather than via dealer-client “voice” trades – can carry major benefits for the $100 trillion-plus world of government and corporate debt.”

The Bond-Trading Revolution Is Real This Time

“Electronic fixed-income platforms made inroads during the pandemic and haven’t lost momentum.”

Bond trading: technology finally disrupts a $50tn market

“…a confluence of factors is now beginning to have a profound impact on the $50tn fixed income market.”

The next quant revolution: shaking up the corporate bond market

“It comes with real challenges, but it really does feel like the forefront, the bleeding edge of systematic strategies. We all know the golden years of systematic equity were the 80s, 90s and 2000s. I think we’re in the golden years of credit.”

Quants focused on the corporate bond market are in high demand as firms like AQR, Blackstone, and Point72 lean in

“One electronic marketplace says it’s seen the number of systematic strategies on its trading venue double every year since 2017.”

Bond Liquidity for US Mid-Market Buy Side

“As fragmentation and volatility persist, it is reasonable to believe that data and technology could level the playing field in terms of liquidity access through information aggregation and improved connectivity to dealers.”

‘All-to-All’ Bond Trading Poised To Win

“All-to-all bonds trading venues represent the eventual end point of the marketplace’s experimentation with new models.”

The Future of Bond Trading—and Why It Matters

“The pandemic has accelerated an evolution in bond trading, and it is already making a difference for investors—if bond managers have embraced tech-enabled trading.”

Record E-Trading Brings More Liquidity to Corporate Bond Market

“Electronic trading of corporate bonds has reached record levels, as credit-trading algorithms get smarter, grab market share, and make it easier for investors to buy and sell corporate bonds without affecting prices too much.”

Electronic Platforms are Challenging Bond Broker-Dealers

“Slowly at first, and lately more quickly, the corporate-bond market is embracing trading on electronic platforms.”

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