AxeTrading EMS Connects to UBS Bond Port
AxeTrading’s clients will now be able to access UBS Bond Port, which has the equivalent of USD 30 billion of daily liquidity in credit, rates and emerging market bonds. They can choose to distribute prices to other participants of the Bond Port network on an anonymous basis and access firm liquidity in over 40,000 ISINs across 19 currencies.
Clients can control their orders to optimise market making and order execution workflows as the AxeTrader pricing engine actively manages live orders within Bond Port to keep them current, and access depth of market.
Nico Masso, Global Co-Head Credit Execution UBS Bond Port said, “Building on our 35% year-on-year volume growth, we are delighted to welcome AxeTrader clients to the expanding UBS Bond Port platform. Our object is to ensure our clients can trade credit across multiple channels and have the optimum connectivity options to access the deepest liquidity.”
Mark Watters, CCO and co-founder of AxeTrading said, “By connecting AxeTrader to UBS Bond Port our clients will benefit from the broadest access to an established and proven truly global fixed income order book that goes far beyond other matching tools. This offers them aggregated firm liquidity backed by the market strength of UBS as the trading counterparty.”