Portfolio trading at Tradeweb improves execution efficiency by allowing institutions to package multiple bonds into a single basket, negotiate a portfolio level price with liquidity providers including banks and principal trading firms, and execute in a single transaction. Tradeweb was the first trading platform to offer portfolio trading for corporate bonds and has facilitated a total
The new Tradeweb functionality allows institutional clients to submit a portfolio trade to multiple liquidity providers simultaneously. Clients choose the number of liquidity providers for each trade, which allows them to balance the potential for price improvement and limiting information leakage. In addition, clients can include both buy and sell orders for individual bonds within the same portfolio trade, making the protocol more flexible when handling various types of fund flows and managing transition trades. In the coming weeks, Tradeweb will extend the availability of the portfolio trading protocol to its institutional marketplace in
“Portfolio trading is fast becoming a vital new liquidity source for institutional clients seeking to trade large, complex baskets efficiently,” said
Integration with unique Tradeweb innovations throughout the full trade lifecycle supports Tradeweb portfolio trades. Pricing and spread analytics are powered by Ai-Price, which delivers real-time reference pricing for more than 18,000 corporate bonds. Post-trade, portfolio trades benefit from net-spotting, a service that compresses interest rate risk through seamless hedging on Tradeweb’s U.S. Treasury marketplace, providing clients with the opportunity to reduce their transaction costs.
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So far this year2, Tradeweb has facilitated an average 11.8% of high grade TRACE volume and over
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