MarketAxess Completes Acquisition of Regulatory Reporting Hub From Deutsche Börse Group
MarketAxess Holdings has completed its acquisition of Regulatory Reporting Hub from Deutsche Börse Group, effective November 30, 2020. This strategic move aims to enhance MarketAxess's regulatory reporting capabilities across Europe, supporting a full front-to-back trade lifecycle service. The acquisition reflects the company’s commitment to improving its infrastructure and service offerings in the fixed-income market.
- Strategic acquisition enhances regulatory reporting capabilities in Europe.
- Strengthens the service offering by extending front-to-back trade lifecycle services.
- Integration challenges may arise from the acquisition.
NEW YORK and AMSTERDAM, Dec. 01, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MarketAxess Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: MKTX), the operator of a leading electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities, and the provider of market data and post-trade services for the global fixed-income markets, has completed its previously announced acquisition of Regulatory Reporting Hub, the regulatory reporting business of Deutsche Börse Group. MarketAxess acquired the business through Trax NL B.V., its wholly owned subsidiary in the Netherlands, on 30 November 2020.
Christophe Roupie, Head of EMEA and APAC at MarketAxess, commented: “We’re delighted to welcome clients of the Regulatory Reporting Hub to MarketAxess. This acquisition is a firm demonstration of our long-term commitment to building our regulatory reporting infrastructure across Europe. It will help us to extend the full front-to-back trade lifecycle services that we offer, from trading and data through to reporting and regulatory compliance. We look forward to working with Deutsche Börse Group over the coming months to successfully transition all our new clients to MarketAxess services.”
About MarketAxess
MarketAxess operates a leading, institutional electronic trading platform delivering expanded liquidity opportunities, improved execution quality and significant cost savings across global fixed-income markets. A global network of over 1,700 firms, including the world’s leading asset managers and institutional broker-dealers, leverages MarketAxess’ patented trading technology to efficiently trade bonds. MarketAxess’ award-winning Open Trading™ marketplace is regarded as the preferred all-to-all trading solution in the global credit markets, creating a unique liquidity pool for a broad range of credit market participants. Drawing on its deep data and analytical resources, MarketAxess provides automated trading solutions, market data products and a range of pre- and post-trade services.
MarketAxess is headquartered in New York and has offices in London, Amsterdam, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco, São Paulo, Hong Kong and Singapore. For more information, please visit www.marketaxess.com.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release may contain forward-looking statements, including statements about the outlook and prospects for Company and industry growth, as well as statements about the Company’s future financial and operating performance. These and other statements that relate to future results and events are based on MarketAxess’ current expectations. The Company’s actual results in future periods may differ materially from those currently expected or desired because of a number of risks and uncertainties, including: risks relating to the COVID-19 pandemic, including the possible effects of the economic conditions worldwide resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic; global economic, political and market factors; the volatility of financial services markets generally; the level of trading volume transacted on the MarketAxess platform; the absolute level and direction of interest rates and the corresponding volatility in the corporate fixed-income market; the level and intensity of competition in the fixed-income electronic trading industry and the pricing pressures that may result; the variability of our growth rate; the rapidly evolving nature of the electronic financial services industry; our ability to introduce new fee plans and our clients’ response; our exposure to risks resulting from non-performance by counterparties to transactions executed between our clients in which we act as an intermediary in matched principal trades; risks related to self-clearing; our dependence on our broker-dealer clients; the loss of any of our significant institutional investor clients; our ability to develop new products and offerings and the market’s acceptance of those products; the effect of rapid market or technological changes on us and the users of our technology; our ability to successfully maintain the integrity of our trading platform and our response to system failures, capacity constraints and business interruptions; our vulnerability to cyber security risks; our ability to protect our intellectual property rights or technology and defend against intellectual property infringement or other claims; our ability to enter into strategic alliances and to acquire other businesses and successfully integrate them with our business; our ability to comply with new and existing laws, rules and regulations both domestically and internationally; our ability to maintain effective compliance and risk management methods; the strain of growth initiatives on management and other resources; our future capital needs and our ability to obtain capital when needed; limitations on our operating flexibility contained in our credit agreement; and other factors. The Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. More information about these and other factors affecting MarketAxess’ business and prospects is contained in MarketAxess’ periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and can be accessed at www.marketaxess.com.
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