MarketAxess To Acquire Xtrakter From Euroclear

MarketAxess maintains its headquarters in New York and has offices in London, Chicago, Salt Lake City, Hong Kong, Singapore and São Paulo. For more information, please visit  www.marketaxess.com.

About Xtrakter and Euroclear

Xtrakter is a leading provider of capital market data, trade matching and regulatory reporting services to the global securities market. It has an established track record in providing innovative, secure and reliable solutions to the financial services sector. Xtrakter was established in 1985 and has been part of the Euroclear group of companies since April 2009.

In 2011, Xtrakter processed 950 million transactions on behalf of its user community and currently provides capital market firms with information to assist them in conducting net asset valuations, mark-to-market calculations, fixed-income portfolio mapping, liquidity and volume modeling, as well as reference data population updates.

Xtrakter also provides a wide range of market (pricing) data for approximately 53,000 international securities and internationally traded government bonds, as well as securities reference data for 290,000 government bonds, corporate bonds, medium-term notes and private derivative issues. Xtrakter employs 70 people and is based in London.

Euroclear is the world’s largest provider of domestic and cross-border settlement and related services for bond, equity, derivatives and fund transactions. User owned and user governed, the Euroclear group includes Euroclear Bank, based in Brussels, as well as Euroclear Belgium, Euroclear Finland, Euroclear France, Euroclear Nederland, Euroclear Sweden and Euroclear UK & Ireland. Euroclear also owns Xtrakter, operator of the TRAX trade matching and reporting system.

Copyright Business Wire 2010

« First ‹ Previous 1 2