Technology Services

Technology Services Overview

U.S. High Grade

DELIVERING BEST-IN-CLASS TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS TO THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL MARKETS Drawing upon a wealth of experience, knowledge and expertise of cutting-edge trading systems, MarketAxess offers a broad range of customized technology solutions for the global financial markets. Let us help you build and enhance your trading system.

Eurobonds

Ideally Positioned to Serve Your Business Needs

Technology

• Recognized leader in electronic trading platforms

Connectivity

• Multi-class, -participant and -protocol, fully-integrated software solutions • Enterprise plant to support systems monitoring, disaster recovery and helpdesk

• SDLC Methodology ensures top-quality, timely deliverables

• API integration with dealers, instutional investors and OMS vendors is our specialty

Credit Default Swaps

• Technical staff of 110+ professionals with unparalleled experience in systems development

• With 4,000+ concurrent buy- and sell-side users, MarketAxess can develop and integrate solutions quickly

Emerging Markets

Expertise

Agencies

SERVICE OFFERING - PRODUCTS

Technology Services

SERVICE OFFERING - EXPERTISE • RFQ State Engine • Web Based User Alerts • Bond Analytics • Working with Portfolios • Bond Reference Data

STP Solutions

• Reporting Service • Watch Lists/Portfolios • Liberator Adapters for Internal Systems • Security Master Enrichment • Calculations Server • Web Framework

BondTicker™

• RFQ Engine • Transformation Engine / Common Messaging • RPC Framework • RV-JMS Bridge • Instrument Search Engine • Alerts Server • Graphing Package

High Yield / Crossovers

Technology Services

• Fixed Income FIX Messaging • Flexible Instrument Searching • Streaming Prices on Web • Available Live Levels based on Permissioning • Order Processing

In addition to the products and expertise listed above, MarketAxess offers licensing opportunites of our proven technologies, including live executable markets, dealer inventories, RFQ and crossmatching systems.

PROVEN TECHNOLOGY

Our Staff and Our Approach We have over 110 technical staff in New York and London including highly-skilled developers, project managers, business analysts and QA testers. Our fixed income domain expertise is deep, and includes U.S. & European High-Grade, Emerging Markets, Agencies, U.S. Treasuries, Credit Default Swaps, High Yield and SAS. Our technological expertise is complemented by a team of senior executives with deep broker-dealer backgrounds. Our development approach implements the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) model to ensure we meet and exceed your expectations, both in quality and timeliness. This formal Sarbanes-Oxley compliant process includes project management, business analysis, design, software development, quality assurance and performance and fail-over testing. We have established a track record of timely deliveries that has historically included four major releases and four minor releases each year, as well as weekly maintenance releases. We know how to deliver results. GLOBAL EXPERIENCE AND REACH Fixed Income Trading Connectivity Given the global desktop presence of our trading platform, we understand how to integrate trading technology solutions quickly with the world’s largest buy-side and sell-side firms. In fact, our users include over 675 active institutional investor firms (including 80 of the top 100 global holders of U.S. corporate bonds), 26 leading global broker-dealer clients and a total of over 4,000 concurrent users. Our experience with Application Protocol Interface (API) integration is extensive. We have 20 broker-dealers per region who have trading APIs, post-trade and/or allocation modules to increase trading efficiencies. On the sell-side, 103 institutional clients are connected (88 Fix, 14 SOAP, 1 FpML), and our trading system is able to easily integrate with the leading OMS vendors, including Bloomberg, Charles River, Latent Zero, Decalog, LineData, Macgregor, BlackRock, Advent and Straight Through. ABOUT MARKETAXESS MarketAxess operates one of the leading platforms for the electronic trading of corporate bonds and certain other types of fixedincome securities, serving as an electronic platform through which our more than 500 active institutional investor clients can access the liquidity provided by our broker-dealer clients. MarketAxess’ multi-dealer trading platform allows our institutional investor clients to simultaneously request competitive, executable bids or offers from multiple broker-dealers, and to execute trades with the brokerdealer of their choice. MarketAxess offers our clients the ability to trade U.S. high-grade corporate bonds, European high-grade corporate bonds, agencies, high yield and emerging markets bonds. MarketAxess also provides data and analytical tools that help our clients make trading decisions, and we facilitate the trading process by electronically communicating order information between trading counterparties. MarketAxess’ current participating dealers are: ABN AMRO, Banc of America Securities, Barclays PLC, Bear Stearns, BNP Paribas, Citigroup Global Markets, Credit Suisse First Boston, Deutsche Bank Securities, DZ Bank, FTN Financial, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, ING Financial Markets, JP Morgan, Jefferies & Company, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, The Royal Bank of Scotland, Santander Investment Securities, SG Corporate & Investment Banking, UBS and Wachovia Securities FOR MORE INFORMATION Please contact George O’Krepkie, Head of Technology Services Sales and Marketing, at 212.813.6055 or [email protected].

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BROAD EXPERTISE

MarketAxess

When you partner with MarketAxess, you partner with the experience that comes with years of development and nearly $100m of investment in a leading multi-class, multi-participant, multi-protocol technology. MarketAxess’ real-time fixed income trading technology is unparalleled, and can be integrated with third-party solutions, including Fix Engine (Cameron), Fix Tools (Verifix), Gateways (Ion, iCubic, Kestral), Analytics providers (TIPS/FinCad) and Real-Time Data delivery (Caplin). Along the way, we have developed a comprehensive suite of infrastructure and software behavior monitoring tools (24x7x265 basis), and have expertise in building worldclass data centers for hosting and disaster recovery, as well as a responsive helpdesks with 2am - 6pm EDT call support.