Uncover new opportunities across multiple territories
All performed seamlessly on one single efficient platform. With the most comprehensive and global EM solution at your fingertips.
- 1,600+ market participants
- 120+ countries
- 28 local currency bond markets
Bringing innovative technology to emerging markets
Learn how we helped VanEck develop their footprint across all our emerging local markets, now including China.
The Network Effect: creating new opportunities for EM bond traders
Today’s emerging market (EM) traders are different to just a few years ago, with an increasing need for information, access and liquidity for a broader spectrum of EM to meet the investment profile of portfolios.
Portfolio Trading for Emerging Markets
Streamlined list trading for illiquid bonds.
MarketAxess sees EM Portfolio Trading volume increase – adding to the $696B* in global EM volume being transacted electronically.
*As of FY 2022
The evolution in the credit markets continues to accelerate. One specific development is that market participants are increasingly seeing the benefits of Portfolio Trading, as it saves time, increases efficiencies and enables greater transparency. All benefits Flow Traders strongly advocates for.
Switch Trading: a new way to play the yield curve
Switch to superior execution.
- Use switches for both EM hard currency and local currency bond markets.
- Move positions quickly and easily in one trade.
- Mitigate duration risk and reduce errors.
- Enjoy tighter spreads.
- Experience greater transparency.
- Settle your local market trades in USD.
Request-for-Market (RFM)
A block trading solution that enables EM traders to tap into new sources of global liquidity.
The EM block trading solution that delivers superior execution results.
Susana Ho discusses RFM as an efficient way to trade in large block sizes.
Natixis leverages RFM to achieve best execution.
RFM is electrifying EM local bond trading.
Trading China onshore bonds is simple when you know how
A seamless and centralized user experience to trade onshore China bonds via Bond Connect and CIBM Direct, now available on MarketAxess.
Voted Best Emerging Markets Bond Trading Platform in the 2020 Global Capital Bond Awards.
We have long been at the forefront of the evolution in emerging markets bond trading and are proud to be spearheading the next changes in the globalization of the business.
Higher yields have led global fixed income investors to switch from hard currency bonds to EM local currency bonds in record numbers. Data gathered by MarketAxess illustrates the size of the inflow into local currency bond trading.
Craig talked to Shanny Basar at Markets Media about how Open Trading addresses the problem of liquidity fragmentation in emerging markets as MarketAxess provides distribution scale to local banks anywhere in the world.
Craig McLeod, Head of Emerging Market Product Management, discusses how the electronic trading evolution is set to accelerate in Asia and Latin America.
CP+™ - our award-winning algorithmic pricing engine for emerging market bonds.
“For any market where there is a wider bid-ask spread, as there is in the emerging markets, the more people you can put in competition, the more it will help in better execution and liquidity.” - Dennis Dow