Trading volumes surged to new highs in the second quarter for municipal and 144A sectors while corporate and agency bond markets both saw declines in activity and total par traded.

June 2025 News Recap features media coverage on the latest Effi additions and enhancements, including a new Transaction Quality Analysis solution and seamless access to premium municipal bond content.

Our new Transaction Quality Analysis solution is now available within our Effi platform, along with seamless access to premium Muni News & MuniPOINTS content. Enhancements were also made to various Portfolio Analytics and Transaction Analytics features.

April 2025 News Recap includes media coverage on the latest QMarks Dashboards for Q1 2025 which showed significant volume growth for corporate and 144A bonds. Municipal trading took a slight breather while agency trading volume saw bigger declines.

A $250B asset manager uses BondWave’s TQA to determine why their expected portfolio alpha is not being fully realized and review possible culprits.

Many firms rely on BondWave Muni News for AI-driven insights and actionable intelligence to help make sense of the overabundance of news and other unstructured data in real-time. This case study showing a multi-year warning of a Palomar Health downgrade is just one example.

While corporate and 144A bonds saw significant volume growth in Q1, the same could not be said for municipal and agency bonds. After strong volumes to close out 2024, municipal trading took a slight breather and agency trading volume decreased significantly.

See how BondWave solved a multi-billion-dollar national RIA and independent wealth management firm’s challenges, including the lack of a unified view for multiple custodians, market event monitoring, interest rate impacts, and a cumbersome workflow for reporting.

Jan. 2025 News Recap includes media coverage on Paul Daley’s Trade Insights piece “Fixed Income Year End Trading Cost Review” in TabbFORUM. The piece looks at corporate and municipal bond trading cost trends between 2017-2024 and also explores volume trends, issuance, quantitative market making, portfolio trading and more.

Paul Daley explores trends in trading costs for corporate and municipal bonds as well as volume trends, issuance, quantitative market making, portfolio trading & more.