Tradeweb Enhances Ai-Price, Advancing Corporate Bond Pricing

Advancements improve pricing model accuracy and support more efficient execution across U.S. credit markets, including through trade automation

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tradeweb Markets Inc. (Nasdaq: TW), a global leader in electronic trading across asset classes, today announced a suite of advancements to Tradeweb Ai-Price, its automated bond pricing engine, including expanded data inputs, upgraded machine learning models and more real-time, intraday-responsive pricing – enhancements designed to further improve price discovery, execution quality and access to liquidity across U.S. corporate bond markets.

Tradeweb Ai-Price improves its pricing accuracy for U.S. investment-grade and high-yield corporate bonds by integrating public TRACE data with Tradeweb's proprietary datasets, leveraging advanced machine learning and analytics to produce more dynamic, responsive bid and offer estimates that better reflect real-time market conditions. Tradeweb's position within the trading ecosystem, underpinned by its global client base, enables the generation of real-time prices that respond to intraday market movements, drawing on institutional trading activity, including European credit.

Troy Dixon, Co-Head of Global Markets at Tradeweb, said: “Corporate bond trading is undergoing a fundamental shift toward more electronic and automated execution, and that shift is redefining what market participants demand from pricing. As that happens, market participants are increasingly relying on pricing that is more dynamic and responsive to evolving market conditions. The quality, speed and accuracy of that data now directly shape how effectively participants can assess liquidity and act on execution decisions. The enhancements to Tradeweb Ai-Price are the next steps in how we’re applying machine learning to pricing, drawing on Tradeweb’s deep data assets, technology infrastructure and long-standing leadership in electronic credit trading.”

Tradeweb Ai-Price supports decision-making across the entire trading lifecycle – helping clients estimate execution costs and assess liquidity pre-trade, evaluate dealer responses and market opportunities at execution, inform automated trading workflows such as Tradeweb’s Automated Intelligent Execution (AiEX) tool and drive transaction cost analysis and performance reporting post-trade. By delivering more responsive pricing, the model aims to reduce the need for manual intervention in automated execution protocols to give clients greater confidence to route large orders through Tradeweb AiEX and dedicate more time to complex, high-touch trades. Tradeweb Ai-Price also powers next-generation pre-trade analytics, helping clients better evaluate which bonds are driving trade costs across execution strategies, while its dynamic bid-offer estimates provide deep insight into liquidity conditions throughout the day to enhance post-trade performance evaluation.

Tradeweb Ai-Price is currently available for investment-grade and high-yield corporate bonds. Tradeweb is actively expanding coverage of Ai-Price across additional fixed income products, including emerging market bonds, with future development efforts focused on broadening asset class coverage and unlocking new use cases across pricing, automation and portfolio analytics.

About Tradeweb Markets
Tradeweb Markets Inc. (Nasdaq: TW) is a leading, global operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money markets. Founded in 1996, Tradeweb provides access to markets, data and analytics, electronic trading, straight-through-processing and reporting for more than 50 products to clients in the institutional, wholesale, retail and corporates markets. Advanced technologies developed by Tradeweb enhance price discovery, order execution and trade workflows while allowing for greater scale and helping to reduce risks in client trading operations. Tradeweb serves more than 3,000 clients in more than 85 countries. On average, Tradeweb facilitated more than $2.9 trillion in notional value traded per day over the past four fiscal quarters. For more information, please go to www.tradeweb.com.

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