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 1,300 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, leveraged loans, european bonds, u.s. agency bonds, municipal bonds, credit default swaps and other fixed-income securities. our "all-to-all"​ market for corporate bonds, open trading™, allows investment managers, broker-dealers at investment banks and other market participants to trade directly with one another electronically on an anonymous basis. 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 proc