IMTC and ICE Bonds to Enhance Liquidity, Workflows for Portfolio Managers

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Provides click-to-trade access to ICE Bonds’ BondPoint and TMC marketplaces within IMTC’s portfolio and order management workflows

New York, N.Y. – July 7, 2026 — IMTC, the fixed income technology platform trusted by buy-side portfolio managers, announced an agreement with ICE Bonds, part of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE) to integrate ICE Bonds’ fixed income liquidity into the IMTC platform, enhancing liquidity and trading workflows for fixed income portfolio managers.

The integration supports click-to-trade and optimization-embedded trading workflows for IMTC clients trading through ICE Bonds’ BondPoint and TMC marketplaces, allowing clients to further align trading decisions with portfolio objectives. The relationship dovetails with IMTC’s broader strategy of connecting portfolio construction, optimization, compliance, and trading in a single fixed income workflow.

From Peter Borstelmann, President of ICE Bonds:

“Integrating ICE Bonds with IMTC’s workflow solution makes fixed income liquidity more accessible for our mutual clients and helps them achieve greater execution certainty when trading through ICE Bonds’ BondPoint and TMC marketplaces. ICE has decades of experience bringing innovation and greater electronification to the markets we serve and we’re pleased to work with IMTC to provide access to our deep pools of liquidity and help our mutual clients streamline their fixed income trading workflows.”

From Russell Feldman, IMTC CEO:

“This agreement with ICE Bonds enhances our ability to help clients trade faster, act on liquidity more efficiently, and produce executable output in accordance with portfolio strategies. By embedding electronic trading capabilities directly into IMTC, we are delivering on our promise to make it easier for clients to optimize and execute within one connected workflow.”

About Intercontinental Exchange

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE) is a Fortune 500 company that designs, builds, and operates digital networks that connect people to opportunity. We provide financial technology and data services across major asset classes helping our customers access mission-critical workflow tools that increase transparency and efficiency. ICE’s futures, equity, and options exchanges — including the New York Stock Exchange — and clearing houses help people invest, raise capital and manage risk. We offer some of the world’s largest markets to trade and clear energy and environmental products. Our fixed income, data services and execution capabilities provide information, analytics and platforms that help our customers streamline processes and capitalize on opportunities. At ICE Mortgage Technology, we are transforming U.S. housing finance, from initial consumer engagement through loan production, closing, registration and the long-term servicing relationship. Together, ICE transforms, streamlines, and automates industries to connect our customers to opportunity.

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About ICE Bonds

Trading and execution services are offered through ICE Bonds Securities Corporation or ICE Bonds, a member of FINRA, MSRB, and SIPC. The information found herein, has been prepared solely for informational purposes and should not be considered investment advice, is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to buy any financial product(s), is intended for institutional investors only and is not intended for retail customer use.

About IMTC

IMTC is the fixed income technology leader trusted by portfolio managers, providing end-to-end portfolio and order management, compliance, and reporting so firms can trade smarter, move faster, and scale with confidence. For more information, visit www.imtc.com.

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Q&A

What is the IMTC and ICE Bonds integration?

The IMTC and ICE Bonds integration connects ICE Bonds’ fixed income liquidity directly into IMTC’s portfolio and order management platform. It gives buy-side portfolio managers click-to-trade access to ICE Bonds’ BondPoint and TMC marketplaces without leaving their IMTC workflow, so trading decisions stay aligned with portfolio objectives. The agreement embeds electronic trading into the same environment where IMTC clients already build, optimize, and monitor portfolios. Rather than moving between a construction tool and a separate execution venue, managers can act on liquidity inside one connected workflow. IMTC’s strategy centers on linking portfolio construction, optimization, compliance, and trading in a single fixed income system, and this relationship extends that approach to execution through ICE Bonds’ marketplaces.

What is click-to-trade access in fixed income?

Click-to-trade lets a portfolio manager send an order to a trading venue directly from the platform where the trade decision was made, in a single action, rather than rekeying it into a separate system. In fixed income, it shortens the path from portfolio decision to execution and cuts manual handoffs. The value grows when click-to-trade sits inside the same workflow as portfolio construction and compliance. Within IMTC, managers can move from an optimized, compliance-checked set of trades to execution through ICE Bonds’ BondPoint and TMC marketplaces without breaking context. That keeps the intent behind each trade intact from decision to fill and limits the errors that creep in when orders travel across disconnected tools.

What are ICE Bonds’ BondPoint and TMC marketplaces?

BondPoint and TMC are electronic fixed income trading marketplaces operated by ICE Bonds, part of Intercontinental Exchange. They provide access to pools of liquidity across a range of fixed income instruments, giving buy-side managers electronic venues to source and execute bond trades with greater execution certainty. ICE Bonds brings decades of experience in electronification across the markets ICE serves. Through the IMTC integration, clients who trade on BondPoint and TMC can reach that liquidity from inside their IMTC workflow. The venues a platform connects to matter for managers evaluating fixed income technology, because they determine how readily a portfolio decision can be turned into an executable trade.

How does IMTC connect portfolio optimization to trade execution?

IMTC connects optimization to execution by treating trading as the final step of one workflow rather than a separate system. Portfolio managers optimize across constraints, run compliance checks, and then send the resulting orders to market through integrated venues such as ICE Bonds’ marketplaces, all without leaving the IMTC platform. This is what IMTC calls optimization-embedded trading. Because the trades that reach execution are the same ones the Optimizer produced under the manager’s constraints, the executable output stays in accordance with portfolio strategy. Embedding electronic trading directly into IMTC closes the gap between deciding what to trade and acting on it, which is where intent is usually lost when construction and execution live in different tools.

Who benefits from the IMTC and ICE Bonds integration?

Buy-side fixed income portfolio managers who use IMTC and trade through ICE Bonds’ BondPoint and TMC marketplaces benefit most directly. The integration is built for firms that want to align execution with portfolio strategy and reduce the manual steps between constructing a portfolio and trading it. It fits managers running many accounts who need execution to keep pace with portfolio decisions without adding operational overhead. By making ICE Bonds’ liquidity accessible inside the IMTC platform, mutual clients of both firms can source liquidity more efficiently and keep trading connected to compliance and optimization. The relationship reflects IMTC’s focus on helping portfolio managers scale with a connected workflow.

How does embedding electronic trading improve fixed income workflows?

Embedding electronic trading into a portfolio and order management platform removes the handoffs between deciding on a trade and executing it. Managers reach liquidity from the same place they build and check portfolios, which streamlines the workflow and helps keep every order aligned with the strategy behind it. In disconnected setups, orders are often rekeyed from a construction tool into a separate venue, which adds delay and room for error. IMTC’s integration with ICE Bonds keeps the full path in one system, from optimization and compliance to execution on BondPoint and TMC. For fixed income desks, that connectivity is what lets portfolio intent survive all the way to the fill.

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