AxeTrading

Winner Buy-Side Trading System of the Year in the 2017 FOW International Awards

AxeTrader brings your fixed income trading venues and sources of liquidity together in one single trading application - for greater efficiency and best execution

AxeTrader is the world's first and most advanced purpose-designed fixed income execution management system

Over 90% of our clients refer AxeTrading

to new customers

Within 1 month of going live with AxeTrader,
a London based brokerage saw trades increase
from an average of 30 to over 150 per day

A leading regional fixed income dealer
improved trading capability and saved thousands of dollars per year
by choosing AxeTrader as their market making solution

Execution management:
Order management system & multiple trading platform integration, trading workflow and best execution tools, reporting, post trade automation

Execution desks and agency trading:
Client order routing and execution workflow;
integration with Bloomberg TSOX<Go>

Market making:
Powerful, user-configurable pricing sheets,

auto-quoting, voice trade booking,

straight through processing

AxeTrading® specialises in providing effective technology solutions for the challenges facing fixed income investors and traders in today's markets.

Our experienced people and our unique solutions enable AxeTrading's clients to implement their fixed income electronic trading strategies successfully and to budget. They enable our clients to address the challenges posed by fragmented liquidity, regulation (including MiFID2, EMIR, Dodd-Frank, and Basel III,) and the demand for greater efficiency.

'Axe': The interest a person or trader shows in buying or selling a fixed income security.
A trader may have specific interest in a certain fixed income security based on their trading positions.

Such a person may be said to be 'Axed' in that security.

OUR SOLUTIONS

AxeTrading's unique, innovative solutions enable both buy-side and sell-side fixed income traders to take advantage of fixed income electronic trading; they streamline workflow, reduce operational risk and facilitate regulatory compliance.

Our solutions enable reporting and help our clients to extract valuable business insights from their trading activity. AxeTrading personnel have decades of experience within the financial IT industry.Quality customer service is also integral to our offering.
References may be obtained from our existing clients if required.

reasons why AxeTrading

will give you the edge

Multi Platform Integration

AxeTrading provides multiple fixed income platform aggregation including OTC, Exchanges, SEF

Best Execution

AxeTrader supports best execution and compliance with MiFID2. Compare pricing from multiple sources and automatically track the market through the life of the order

Buy- & Sell-side

AxeTrading provides fixed income electronic trading solutions that serve the needs of both
buy- and sell-side

Experience

We have decades of experience in fixed income electronic trading;
we are able to advise and assist our clients

Technology Partnership

AxeTrading builds technology partnerships with our clients. We work with them to implement effective fixed income e-trading systems & strategies

Pricing Engine

Powerful, user-configurable pricing sheets including custom calculations, conditional pricing, user-definable alerts/offline conditions, & safety features

Integration & STP

AxeTrading integrates with internal and external systems for automated trade capture & reporting (straight-through-processing or 'STP')

Service Included

Expert service & support are included with AxeTrader

The AxeTrader Architecture

User-friendly, efficient, flexible;

AxeTrader is built on the latest Java technologies and deployed within your organization.

Installed on your own infrastructure

AxeTrader Desktop

AxeServer | Database

Post Trade Automation

Electronic Markets

Data Feeds

The AxeTrader Features

Straightforward implementation from a disk or download; assistance included.

Minimal hardware requirement.

AxeTrader is a comprehensive system with a compact footprint.

Includes service and support.

AxeTrading partners with our clients to deliver effective solutions,
on time and on budget.

Flexible, user-friendly system; self-configurable - saves costs.

Scalable from 2 traders
to global enterprise.

Built-in safety features throughout AxeTrader

Powerful, flexible pricing engine - traders can configure and manage themselves.

OUR CONNECTIVITY

AxeTrading solutions integrate with order management and back office systems, as well as multiple fixed income trading platforms and pricing sources.

Our solutions bring your fixed income workflows and liquidity together into a single desktop application for more efficient trading and best execution.

Post trade integration with regulatory reporting venues including TRACE/FINRA, custodians, and clearing agencies further streamlines trading.

types of connectivity provided by AxeTrader

for efficient fixed income trading

Voice

Bloomberg VCON integration;

Voice trade confirmation via web;

FIX trade confirmation;

and others

E-Platforms

Bloomberg FIT, TSOX;

MTS/BondVision/MTS BondsPro;

MarketAxess (incl. Open Trading);

TradeWeb (Staging);

and others

Exchanges

Integration with leading exchanges (FIX)

SEF

Multiple SEF aggregation and integration

OMS

Integration with your firm's Order Management System (FIX):
Solicited or Unsolicited workflow

Data

Integrate any data (where permitted);
AxeTrading has Data Partnerships with leading fixed income data vendors to ensure quick & easy integration.

STP

Integration with middle & back office systems, including Bloomberg TOMS, MUREX, Kondor+;
Post trade integration with custodians, clearers, regulatory reporting including TRACE/FINRA

OUR CUSTOMERS

Our customers are fixed income traders including both sell-side and buy-side firms, who are searching for new or more efficient ways to trade, or to distribute their fixed income liquidity
via fixed income electronic trading networks.

Our technology helps our clients to adapt effectively to the evolving impact of regulations on the fixed income markets, including MiFID, Basel III, Dodd-Frank, and others.

WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT US

Martin Richardson - Debt Capital Markets at Rand Merchant Bank

"After evaluating a number of alternatives, we selected AxeTrader because they provided a tailor made solution for us, therefore we did not pay for any superfluous functionality. The end result is that AxeTrader provided us a great product which is extremely cost effective and perfect for our individual needs"

Richard Boast, Head of Sterling Credit Trading at Cannaccord Genuity

"In order to fulfil our requirement to trade bonds electronically via Bloomberg we looked at the options available to us and favoured AxeTrading and their solution AxeTrader. This has provided an efficient way to trade and also raised Cannaccord Genuity's visibility with clients in the market. I look forward to a long and healthy partnership with AxeTrading in the future."

OUR PEOPLE

Dinos Daborn

Co-Founder, Director

Dinos co-founded AxeTrading in 2009 and has over 25 years' experience in fixed income broking, sales and electronic trading.
His previous experience includes, among others, a senior role in credit e-sales at Citigroup and a fixed income

Ralf Henke

Co-Founder, Director

Co-founder of AxeTrading, Ralf has over 15 years' experience in fixed income electronic trading and is responsible for technology and software development at AxeTrading.
Holding a degree in Computer Engineering, his past experience

Mark Watters

Director, Sales

Mark has been responsible for business development at AxeTrading since he joined the team in 2011.
He has over 17 years’ experience at Bloomberg, including senior roles in fixed income electronic trading.
Mark gained specialist experience in

Hannes Kurth

Senior Software Engineer

Hannes has been part of the AxeTrading team since 2010 and is the Senior Software Engineer. With a Master Degree in Computer Science and over 10 years’ experience in fixed income electronic trading systems, he leads the software development

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