MarketAxess Raises $178,000 for Haiti Relief Efforts

NEW YORK and LONDON, Jan. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — MarketAxess Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: MKTX), the operator of a leading electronic trading platform for U.S. and European high-grade corporate bonds, emerging markets bonds and other types of fixed-income securities, today announced it raised $178,000 for the American Red Cross through its Haiti Charity Trading Day that took place on January 21, 2010.

 ”We are extremely thankful to our investor and dealer clients for their remarkable support,” said Richard M. McVey, chairman and chief executive officer of MarketAxess. “We are fortunate to have a strong global community of fixed income professionals that came together to make our Haiti Charity Trading Day a tremendous success.”

 The funds raised will be contributed to the American Red Cross to aid victims of the earthquake in Haiti.

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 About MarketAxess

MarketAxess operates a leading electronic trading platform that enables investment industry professionals to efficiently trade corporate bonds and other types of fixed-income instruments.   MarketAxess’ patented trading technology allows institutional investor clients to request competitive, executable bids or offers from multiple broker-dealers simultaneously, and to execute trades with the broker-dealer of their choice.  Approximately 700 institutional investors are active users of the MarketAxess trading platform, accessing the global liquidity provided by MarketAxess’ 67 broker-dealer clients in U.S. high-grade corporate bonds, European bonds, high yield and emerging markets bonds, agency bonds and credit default swaps.  MarketAxess also offers a number of trading-related products and services, including: market data to assist clients with trading decisions; connectivity solutions that facilitate straight-through processing; technology services to optimize trading environments; and execution services for exchange-traded fund managers and other clients.  

 MarketAxess maintains its headquarters in New York and has offices in London, Chicago and Salt Lake City.  For more information, please visit www.marketaxess.com.

 About the American Red Cross:

The American Red Cross shelters, feeds and provides emotional support to victims of disasters; supplies nearly half of the nation’s blood; teaches lifesaving skills; provides international humanitarian aid; and supports military members and their families. The Red Cross is a charitable organization — not a government agency — and depends on volunteers and the generosity of the American public to perform its mission. For more information, please visit www.redcross.org or join our blog at http://blog.redcross.org.