IMTC, MarketAxess Enter Relationship to Enhance Liquidity, Scale Custom Fixed Income Portfolios

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Integration links IMTC’s platform with MarketAxess’ global electronic trading network to help institutions trade more efficiently, improve execution quality

New York, N.Y. – September 9, 2026 – IMTC, the fixed income technology platform trusted by buy-side portfolio managers, today announced an integration with MarketAxess Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: MKTX), a leading institutional electronic trading platform for global fixed income markets, to enhance liquidity opportunities for market participants.

The integration will allow MarketAxess liquidity to be accessible from IMTC’s portfolio and order management workflows. Directly from IMTC’s platform, mutual clients can now route orders to MarketAxess and tap into its differentiated liquidity across credit products, all while maintaining rigorous compliance and operational control.

The relationship is designed to:

• Bring MarketAxess’ electronic marketplace and liquidity closer to the point of portfolio decision-making, directly within IMTC’s portfolio construction and optimization workflows.
• Support portfolio managers in scaling custom fixed income portfolios, model-driven strategies and SMAs by linking IMTC’s optimization outputs with MarketAxess’ electronic trading protocols and diverse liquidity pools.
• Help mutual clients improve execution quality, reduce transaction costs, and streamline end-to-end trade workflows from idea generation and portfolio construction through execution and reporting.

FROM MARKETAXESS HEAD OF PRODUCTS, AMERICAS, SPENCER LEE:

“MarketAxess continues to expand the reach of our global network and bring more differentiated liquidity and data to institutional investors. By integrating with IMTC’s portfolio and order management technology, we are embedding that liquidity directly into the investment workflow, making it easier for our mutual clients to discover opportunities, execute with confidence, and achieve better outcomes across fixed-income markets.”

FROM IMTC CEO RUSSELL FELDMAN:

“As firms look to scale fixed income management, PMs need optimization, compliance, and execution to operate in one connected workflow. Partnering with a leader like MarketAxess allows our mutual clients to tap into a deep liquidity network while turning portfolio decisions into executable orders with greater precision, scale, and auditability.”

ABOUT MARKETAXESS

MarketAxess (Nasdaq: MKTX) operates a leading electronic trading platform that delivers greater trading efficiency, a diversified pool of liquidity and significant cost savings to institutional investors and broker-dealers across the global fixed-income and other markets. Approximately 2,100 firms leverage MarketAxess’ patented technology to efficiently trade fixed-income securities. Our automated and algorithmic trading solutions, combined with our integrated and actionable data offerings, help our clients make faster, better-informed decisions on when and how to trade on our platform. MarketAxess’ award-winning Open Trading® marketplace is widely regarded as the preferred all-to-all trading solution in the global credit markets. Founded in 2000, MarketAxess connects a robust network of market participants through an advanced full trading lifecycle solution that includes automated trading solutions, intelligent data and index products and a range of post-trade services. Learn more at www.marketaxess.com.

ABOUT IMTC

IMTC is the fixed income technology leader trusted by portfolio managers, providing end-to-end portfolio and order management, compliance, and reporting on an AI-enhanced platform 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 MarketAxess integration?

The integration makes MarketAxess liquidity accessible from inside IMTC’s portfolio and order management workflows. Mutual clients can route orders to MarketAxess directly from the IMTC platform and tap into its differentiated liquidity across credit products, without leaving the environment where they build, optimize, and monitor portfolios. Compliance and operational controls stay in place throughout. For IMTC, it extends a consistent approach: connect portfolio construction, optimization, compliance, and trading in one fixed income workflow.

What does it mean to route orders to MarketAxess from IMTC?

A portfolio manager can send trades to the MarketAxess marketplace from the same platform where the trade decisions were made. The orders are the output of IMTC’s optimization workflows, already checked against the firm’s compliance rules, so there is no rebuilding them in a separate execution system. The intent behind each trade carries through from portfolio decision to execution.

What is MarketAxess?

MarketAxess (Nasdaq: MKTX) operates a leading electronic trading platform that delivers greater trading efficiency, a diversified pool of liquidity and significant cost savings to institutional investors and broker-dealers across the global fixed-income and other markets. Approximately 2,100 firms leverage MarketAxess’ patented technology to efficiently trade fixed-income securities. Our automated and algorithmic trading solutions, combined with our integrated and actionable data offerings, help our clients make faster, better-informed decisions on when and how to trade on our platform. MarketAxess’ award-winning Open Trading® marketplace is widely regarded as the preferred all-to-all trading solution in the global credit markets. Founded in 2000, MarketAxess connects a robust network of market participants through an advanced full trading lifecycle solution that includes automated trading solutions, intelligent data and index products and a range of post-trade services.

How does the integration help portfolio managers scale custom fixed income portfolios, models, and SMAs?

Scaling custom portfolios, model-driven strategies, and SMAs depends on turning many portfolio decisions into executable orders without adding manual work for every account. The integration links IMTC’s optimization outputs directly to MarketAxess’ electronic trading protocols and liquidity pools, so a manager can optimize across accounts, run compliance checks, and route the resulting orders in one connected flow. Execution keeps pace with portfolio decisions as account counts grow.

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