ION Markets announced the connection of its LatentZero buyside clients to UBS’s Bond Port trading platform, providing more trading flexibility and anonymous access to a large liquidity pool of 2,500+ clients in over 65 markets with firm pricing in over 25,000 instruments, trading in 19 currencies.
Client liquidity is integrated with external venues, regional dealers, and alternative providers and users have access to a range of trading protocols and an aggregated view of the current market.
“Access to the UBS Bond Port trading platform will provide our buyside clients with even greater visibility and flexibility to make informed asset management choices. This is the latest development demonstrating ION Markets’ mission to use cutting-edge technology to fuel simplicity, automation and reliability for clients, underpinning hundreds of thousands of transactions every day,” said Hishaam Caramanli, ION Group’s chief product officer.
“Connectivity to OMS providers is at the heart of Bond Port’s client strategy. This connection will allow LatentZero clients to see our live order book, add orders and trade the resting liquidity all within their natural workflow,” said Simon Linwood, EMEA head of UBS Bond Port, in a statement.