For buy-side and hedge funds
Execute size without signalling
You pay two costs when finding liquidity manually in OTC markets. The financial cost of the trade and then the informational cost of asking multiple counterparties for a price. OptAxe allows you to surface risk systematically and discreetly.
What you get
Discretion, control and liquidity.
Discretion
A targeted request is seen only by the issuers of the axes you select. There is no broadcast, and nobody outside the request learns that it was made.
Control
You choose when to ask, whom to ask and whether to trade. Quotes are firm for a stated validity window. You can also post your own interest and let the market come to you.
One screen
Consolidated inventory from all permissioned issuers, filtered by pair, tenor, structure and direction, with saved views for the risks you run.
How it fits the desk
Connect via OMS, direct API or Web UI
Buy-side participants can access the venue across multiple channels. Screen axes in your own risk systems via API or via the UI. Request direct RFQs. OptAxe connects where you trade.
- No installation for the Web UI. REST/WS API specifications available on request.
- Trades take place directly with your bilateral counterparties.
- View and trade axes. Leave your own axes back to your trusted counterparties.
Counterparties and credit
You trade only with counterparties you have permissioned and documented. The venue does not intermediate credit. Counterparties are disclosed to each other at the point of trade.
Multi-pod funds
Entitlements can be set per portfolio manager or per pod, so each risk taker sees and posts only what they are permitted to.
Regulatory position
FCA-authorised MTF
Authorised MTF
OptAxe Limited is authorised and regulated by the FCA (FRN 1002237). The venue operates under published, non-discretionary rules.
Regulatory statusReporting
The venue handles its own reporting obligations as an MTF. Your firm's EMIR and best execution obligations remain your own.
Non-UK participants
The position for US, Swiss, Canadian and EU participants is maintained on the regulatory status page and in the updates feed.
Regulatory updatesStart with your workflow, not ours
Tell us how you find the other side today. We will show you where the venue helps, and say plainly where it does not.