Tradeweb completes Yieldbroker acquisition
The A$125 million acquisition broadens Tradeweb’s Asia-Pacific footprint, further opening the door to Australia and New Zealand.
The A$125 million acquisition broadens Tradeweb’s Asia-Pacific footprint, further opening the door to Australia and New Zealand.
The move will help bring increased liquidity, transparency and efficiency to Australian and New Zealand fixed income markets.
If a definitive agreement is reached, Tradeweb anticipates that the acquisition would be an all-cash transaction with a purchase price of $82.7 million.
Price data and analytics for Australian and New Zealand fixed income and interest rate derivatives to be provided through Elektron and Eikon platforms.
The exchange’s post-trade division increased 17.4% year-on-year, while its data and analytics offering rose by 7.3%, and capital markets by 6.1%.
The acquisition was announced last November; r8fin co-founder Assad Fehmy set to join Tradeweb following completion of deal.
Tradeweb is the second major fixed income venue to move to acquire an algo provider in H2 of this year after MarketAxess confirmed it was set to purchase Pragma in August.
Learn more about the four firms shortlisted for The TRADE’s 2023 Editors’ Choice Award for Outstanding Fixed Income Trading Venue: including Bloomberg, Euronext MTS Markets, MarketAxess and Tradeweb.
Move follows the recent broadening of Tradeweb’s Asia Pacific footprint through the A$125 million acquisition of Yieldbroker last month.
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