ACTIV Financial Systems Partners with BondCliQ to Offer Real Time and Historical Corporate Bond Data Product

Provides much needed transparency and access to US corporate bond market data.

New York, London -- March 10, 2020 -- InvestorsHub NewsWire -- BondCliQ, the first consolidated quote system for the US corporate bond market, today announced a partnership with ACTIV Financial Systems Inc. (ACTIV), a global distributor of financial market data. The new agreement allows ACTIV to distribute BondCliQ's rich set of real-time and historical corporate bond data.

Through this collaboration, ACTIV is now a reseller of institutional corporate bond quote (pre-trade) information and enriched transaction data (TRACE) that is competitive to analogous offerings from established providers in the industry.

Chris White, Chief Executive Officer of BondCliQ says: "There is huge demand for higher quality institutional pricing information in the US corporate bond market. By coordinating directly with 35 dealers, BondCliQ has produced the first centralized data feed. We are excited to partner with ACTIV to deliver this essential information to the market. ACTIV's global buy and sell side network and successful market data solution align with our goal to distribute data through the premier channels customers prefer."

BondCliQ's data is suitable for all corporate bond market participants for trading, analytics and valuations. Dealers and buy-side clients can improve their institutional trading capabilities by viewing real-time market movements, analyzing liquidity conditions and evaluating historical quote activity.

ACTIV offers a full path of solutions making them the only truly end-to-end, independent market data utility in the industry. Their offerings include normalized feeds covering equities, derivatives, forex, financial newswires, reference, company fundamental and historical data, all of which are accessible through a modern set of APIs that can satisfy all use cases from algorithmic trading and risk management to financial websites. Configurations include multi-tenant and private deployments, all delivered as a fully managed service.

"ACTIV Financial is excited to expand its content value proposition through this new agreement with BondCliQ. BondCliQ offers unique data sets that can be leveraged across multiple areas for our customers" said Mike Misiaszek, Global Head of Sales at ACTIV. "Choosing to work with BondCliQ to expand our fixed income offering makes perfect sense. "BondCliQ is among the first to market as an aggregator of corporate bond pricing that is bringing unprecedented transparency to this critical market.  We are eager to join them in this journey."

The service is available through FIX API, or via secure FTP files at intervals.

About BondCliQ

BondCliQ is a market data solution for the US corporate bond market. Our corporate bond market system uses a unique set of protocols to centralize and organize institutional pre-trade quotes to empower market makers to become more active liquidity providers for buy-side clients. The BondCliQ team is uniquely qualified to bring an innovative solution to the US corporate bond market because of their invaluable experience in fixed income technology and market development, including senior roles at Goldman Sachs, Blackrock, NYSE, and MarketAxess. To learn more, please visit www.bondcliq.com.

About ACTIV Financial

ACTIV is a global provider of real-time, multi-asset financial market data and solutions. ACTIV offers neutral, managed services for buy and sell-side firms and technology providers seeking a complete market data solution that encompasses both global content management and data delivery. With coverage spanning more than 220 equity and derivatives exchanges around the world, ACTIV is the only truly end-to-end, independent market data utility in the industry. Founded in 2002 by market data specialists, the firm is privately owned and has offices in Chicago, New York, Tokyo, Singapore and London. More information can be found at http://www.activfinancial.com and https://twitter.com/ActivMarketData.