MarketAxess Announces Trading Volume Statistics for December and Fourth Quarter 2025
MarketAxess Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: MKTX), the operator of a leading electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities, today announced trading volume and preliminary variable transaction fees pe...
NEW YORK: MarketAxess Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: MKTX), the operator of a leading electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities, today announced trading volume and preliminary variable transaction fees per million (“FPM”) for December 2025 and the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2025.1
Select Fourth Quarter 2025 Highlights* (See tables 1-1C and table 2)
Our new initiatives continued to show strong year-over-year progress across the client-initiated, portfolio trading and dealer-initiated channels.
Client-Initiated Channel
- 29% growth in block trading average daily volume (“ADV”), with strong growth across U.S. credit (+21%), record emerging markets (+41%) and eurobonds (+43%).
Portfolio Trading Channel
- 41% increase in total portfolio trading ADV to a record $1.5 billion, with record U.S. high-yield portfolio trading ADV of $368 million and record emerging markets portfolio trading ADV of $118 million.
- Our estimated market share of U.S. credit portfolio trading was a record 20.6%, compared to 16.2% in the prior year, and 19.1% in 3Q25. Record U.S. credit portfolio trading estimated market share in the quarter was driven in part by record U.S. high-yield estimated market share in December 2025 of 27.7%.
Dealer-Initiated Channel
- 32% increase in dealer-initiated ADV to $1.8 billion, consisting of a 20% increase in Dealer RFQ ADV and an 185% increase in Mid-X ADV. Our Mid-X protocol in U.S. credit surpassed $3.0 billion in trading volume in December 2025.
Fourth Quarter 2025 Variable Transaction Fees Per Million1 (See table 1D)
- The decline in total credit FPM both year-over-year and quarter-over-quarter was driven principally by protocol mix, partially offset by the higher duration of bonds traded in U.S. high-grade. Total credit FPM in December 2025 was flat month-over-month compared to November 2025.
- The increase in total rates FPM both year-over-year and quarter-over-quarter was driven by the impact of product mix.
*All comparisons versus fourth quarter 2024 unless noted.
Table 1: MarketAxess ADV
| Month | % Change | Quarter | % Change | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Dec-25 |
| Nov-25 |
| Dec-24 |
| MoM | YoY |
| 4Q25 |
| 3Q25 |
| 4Q24 |
| QoQ | YoY | ||||||||||||||||
MKTX ADV ($ millions) |
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Credit |
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U.S. High-Grade (incl. SD PT)2 |
| $ | 6,275 |
| $ | 7,763 |
| $ | 5,949 |
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| (19 | ) | % | 5 |
| % |
| $ | 7,035 |
| $ | 6,783 |
| $ | 6,578 |
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| 4 |
| % | 7 |
| % |
U.S. High-Grade (excl. SD PT)2 |
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| 6,043 |
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| 7,594 |
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| 5,921 |
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| (20 | ) |
| 2 |
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| 6,848 |
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| 6,558 |
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| 6,454 |
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| 4 |
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| 6 |
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U.S. High-Yield (incl. SD PT)2 |
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| 1,591 |
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| 1,791 |
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| 1,222 |
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| (11 | ) |
| 30 |
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| 1,749 |
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| 1,557 |
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| 1,378 |
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| 12 |
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| 27 |
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U.S. High-Yield (excl. SD PT)2 |
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| 1,391 |
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| 1,622 |
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| 1,219 |
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| (14 | ) |
| 14 |
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| 1,543 |
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| 1,347 |
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| 1,345 |
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| 15 |
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| 15 |
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Emerging Markets |
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| 3,515 |
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| 4,265 |
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| 2,869 |
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| (18 | ) |
| 23 |
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| 3,986 |
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| 3,803 |
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| 3,459 |
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| 5 |
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| 15 |
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Eurobonds |
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| 2,003 |
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| 2,741 |
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| 1,619 |
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| (27 | ) |
| 24 |
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| 2,407 |
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| 2,196 |
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| 2,001 |
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| 10 |
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| 20 |
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Other Credit Products3 |
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| 594 |
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| 586 |
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| 657 |
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| 1 |
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| (10 | ) |
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| 597 |
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| 631 |
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| 624 |
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| (5 | ) |
| (4 | ) |
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Municipal Bonds |
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| 593 |
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| 585 |
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| 656 |
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| 1 |
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| (10 | ) |
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| 597 |
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| 630 |
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| 620 |
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| (5 | ) |
| (4 | ) |
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Total MKTX Credit ADV (excl. SD PT)2 |
| $ | 13,546 |
| $ | 16,808 |
| $ | 12,285 |
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| (19 | ) |
| 10 |
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| $ | 15,381 |
| $ | 14,535 |
| $ | 13,883 |
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| 6 |
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| 11 |
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Rates |
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U.S. Government Bonds |
| $ | 19,406 |
| $ | 22,966 |
| $ | 18,735 |
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| (16 | ) | % | 4 |
| % |
| $ | 21,819 |
| $ | 23,130 |
| $ | 25,952 |
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| (6 | ) | % | (16 | ) | % |
Agencies and Other Government Bonds |
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| 620 |
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| 715 |
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| 1,017 |
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| (13 | ) |
| (39 | ) |
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| 686 |
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| 1,166 |
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| 1,195 |
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| (41 | ) |
| (43 | ) |
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Total MKTX Rates ADV |
| $ | 20,026 |
| $ | 23,681 |
| $ | 19,752 |
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| (15 | ) |
| 1 |
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| $ | 22,505 |
| $ | 24,296 |
| $ | 27,147 |
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