MarketAxess Holdings Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates an electronic trading platform that allows investment industry professionals to trade corporate bonds and other types of fixed-income instruments. Its multi-dealer trading platform allows institutional investor clients to request competitive, executable bids, or offers from broker-dealers, and to execute trades with the broker-dealer of their choice. The company provides its clients the ability to trade the U.S. high-grade corporate bonds, European high-grade corporate bonds, and emerging markets bonds, including investment-grade and non-investment grade debt, as well as crossover and high-yield bonds, agency bonds, asset-backed and preferred securities, and credit default swaps. The company offers its trading platform services to institutional investors, including investment advisers, mutual funds, insurance companies, public and private pension funds, bank portfolios, broker-dealers, and hedge funds. It also provides Corporate BondTicker service, which offers fixed-income market data, analytics, and compliance tools that help its clients make trading decisions; and Financial Information eXchange message management tools, connectivity solutions, and ancillary technology services that facilitate the electronic communication of order information between trading counterparties. In addition, the company offers capital market data, trade matching, and regulatory reporting services to the securities market. MarketAxess Holdings Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in New York, New York.