Top three fixed income venues confirm bid to deliver EU consolidated tape for bonds

Bloomberg, MarketAxess and Tradeweb will join forces to create an independent company and will submit a request for information in search for a third-party vendor to partner with.

The top three venues in fixed income by trade volume—MarketAxess, Tradeweb, and Bloomberg—have confirmed their plans to compete for the contract to deliver the regulator-backed consolidated tape (CT) for bonds in the EU. WatersTechnology first broke the news of this partnership back in November 2021.

“With our collective expertise in fixed-income markets and in operating regulatory reporting entities—notably Approved Publication Arrangements (APAs) for Mifir reporting—we are in a unique

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