NEW YORK, Oct. 2, 2014 (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, today announced total monthly trading volume for September 2014 of $66.3 billion, consisting of $41.0 billion in U.S. high-grade volume, $19.7 billion in other credit volume, and $5.6 billion in liquid products volume.
For the month of September 2014, estimated FINRA reported U.S. high-grade TRACE volume was $333.7 billion, consisting of $290.1 billion in registered securities and $43.6 billion in 144A securities. MarketAxess believes that certain broker-dealers initiated reporting of affiliate back-to-back trades to FINRA in April 2014. The Company believes that this double counting of trades inflated the TRACE reported volume by approximately 3.5% for September 2014 and, accordingly, reduced the Company's estimated U.S. high-grade market share by approximately 0.5%. MarketAxess is providing both the reported and the adjusted estimated U.S. high-grade TRACE volumes on its website. The Company believes that adjusted estimated volumes provides a more accurate comparison to prior period reporting and, in the case of affiliate back-to-back trades, the adjusted volumes assumes a base level of such double-reported trades consistent with prior periods. FINRA has not yet made available any historical 144A data for periods prior to July 1, 2014.
This data can be accessed on MarketAxess' website at investor.marketaxess.com/volume.cfm
Monthly volume updates are posted in the Investor Relations section of the website on or before the tenth business day of each month. The data provide current month and historical volume totals on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis.
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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. Actual results in future periods may differ materially from those currently expected or desired because of a number of risks and uncertainties, including: 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 matching back-to-back trades; 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 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's actual results and financial condition may differ, perhaps materially, from the anticipated results and financial condition in any such forward-looking statements. 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 .
About MarketAxess
MarketAxess operates a leading electronic trading platform that enables fixed-income market participants to efficiently trade corporate bonds and other types of fixed-income instruments using MarketAxess' patented trading technology. Over 1,000 institutional investor and broker-dealer firms are active users of the MarketAxess trading platform, accessing global liquidity in U.S. high-grade corporate bonds, emerging markets and high-yield bonds, European bonds, U.S. agency bonds, credit default swaps and other fixed-income securities. MarketAxess SEF Corporation has received temporary registration from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to operate a swap execution facility. MarketAxess also offers a number of trading-related products and services, including: market data to assist clients with trading decisions; connectivity solutions that facilitate straight-through processing; technology services to optimize trading environments; and execution services for exchange-traded fund managers and other clients. Through its Trax® division, MarketAxess also offers a range of pre- and post-trade services, including trade matching, regulatory transaction reporting and market and reference data, across a range of fixed-income products. Trax is the trading name of Xtrakter Ltd., a MarketAxess group company.
MarketAxess maintains its headquarters in New York and has offices in London, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, São Paulo and Singapore. For more information, please visit www.marketaxess.com .
Investor Relations Contact: Tony DeLise MarketAxess Holdings Inc. +1-212-813-6017 Media Relations Contacts: Florencia Panizza MarketAxess Holdings Inc. +1-212-813-6029 William McBride Bryant Park Financial Communications +1-917-239-6726
