MarketAxess selects Ancoa’s Market Surveillance Capabilities for its European Fixed-Income Trading Platform.
LONDON, 1 September 2016 – Ancoa, provider of contextual surveillance and insightful analytics for exchanges, regulators, buy- & sell-side firms, today announced that MarketAxess Europe Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of MarketAxess Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq:MKTX), has deployed Ancoa’s market surveillance capabilities across its European fixed-income multilateral trading facility (MTF). As a leading electronic fixed-income trading platform and provider of market data and post-trade services, MarketAxess operates an electronic trading platform enabling more than 1,100 institutional fixed-income trading firms to efficiently trade corporate bonds and other types of fixed-income instruments globally.
In recent years, regulators have expanded the scope of surveillance of fixed-income trading. The Market Abuse Regulation (MAR), which came into effect in July 2016 across the European Union, will require all market participants and EU regulated trading venues to comply with more stringent market surveillance criteria. Market surveillance will, for the first time, need to capture market manipulation intent, as the existing obligation to report suspicious transactions (STRs) extends to include suspicious orders (STORs).
MarketAxess deployed Ancoa’s platform to monitor instances of potential market abuse on its MTF, and meet the scenarios set out under MAR. As an asset class, bonds are typically less liquid than cash equities which makes assessing a trade’s price normality a challenge. To address this, Ancoa, in conjunction with MarketAxess, designed and deployed new specialised RFQ-based trading alerts. Ancoa also provides functionality to ensure that MarketAxess receive alerts for sanctioned instruments across its bond universe. Ancoa’s visualisation tool aggregates all trading and contextual data onto a single screen and MarketAxess’ analysts now have access to the insights Ancoa generates, considerably improving their analytics and compliance-oversight capabilities.
Kurt Vandebroek, Chief Executive Officer, Ancoa, added, “We are delighted that MarketAxess has deployed Ancoa’s market surveillance capabilities for their EU fixed-income trading operations. Our growing focus on the FICC markets and expertise in market surveillance for RFQ based trading, has enabled us to deploy our monitoring platform within a short timeframe, helping MarketAxess detect and deal with potential market abuse and, meet their regulatory obligations with confidence and ahead of deadline.”
Media Contact: On behalf of Ancoa
Sybille Mueller / Holly Finn, Streets Consulting
Tel: +44 (0)20 7959 2235
Sybille.Mueller@streetsconsulting.com
Holly.finn@streetsconsulting.com
About Ancoa
Ancoa provides contextual surveillance and insightful analytics for exchanges, regulators, buy & sell-side firms. Our highly sophisticated, yet easy to deploy and simple to use, monitoring and surveillance platform helps firms take full control of their regulatory, reputational and operational risks across markets, functions and asset classes.
We help improve market integrity by providing greater visibility over trading behaviour. Our independent and real-time approach to monitoring, analytics, alerting and reporting, using powerful visualisation tools, enables firms to identify and manage potential risks of market abuse, fraud and operational shortcomings on a single platform.
Founded in 2010, Ancoa’s management team brings together a strong pedigree & track record in capital markets, technology, surveillance, analytics and entrepreneurship.
For more information visit www.ancoa.com or follow us on twitter @AncoaSoftware.
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