Arcesium integrates additional MarketAxess data and analytics to enhance fixed income workflows. Newest integration designed to streamline fixed income workflows for hedge funds, institutional asset managers and capital markets firms Published on 10/07/2026 at 09:07 am EDT Business Wire Arcesium, a leading global financial technology provider to the investment industry, today announced an integration with MarketAxess Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: MKTX), a leading electronic trading platform for fixed income securities, to provide investment firms with seamless data solutions across the fixed income trade lifecycle. With the integration of MarketAxess CP+(TM) and TraX(R) market data into Arcesium's Aquata(R) and Opterra(R) platforms, hedge funds, institutional asset managers and capital markets firms can now connect front-to-back workflows and improve data accuracy across investment and operational processes. The integration with Arcesium's platforms enables mutual clients to embed MarketAxess' pricing, liquidity and transaction data directly into their fixed income operational workflows. MarketAxess CP+ is an AI-powered algorithmic pricing engine for global credit and rates markets. MarketAxess TraX, provides daily trade volumes and transactional data for more than 42,000 global fixed income instruments. Together, these datasets provide the market context needed for more efficient liquidity analysis, price discovery, relative value assessment and risk analytics, without custom integration efforts. Alex Dobson, SVP and Head of Product at Arcesium, added, "Fixed income markets can be dynamic, one market movement can have a ripple effect across portfolios. Having more data is only valuable if firms can lean on market intelligence and operational context across one view in order to make better decisions. Our integration with MarketAxess provides fixed income teams rich market data and clean operational data in one place, allowing firms to act on pricing and liquidity signals within their core operating environment." Ena Gordon, Head of Data & Analytics Product, at MarketAxess, said: "As fixed income markets grow more complex, investors need trusted data and purpose-built tools to operate at scale. By integrating our proprietary data with Arcesium's platforms, clients can gain a reliable source of truth for fixed income trading and operations." Arcesium has also integrated with MarketAxess Repo Match since June 2024. Through the integration, Arcesium submits Opterra clients' repo trades directly to Repo Match for trade-date matching against counterparty confirmations, including lifecycle events such as re-rates and close-outs. This enhances efficiency in the repo market by supporting straight through processing, earlier exception resolution and automated books and records updates. Repo Match connects 127 buy-side and sell-side firms, with over US$700 billion in matched average daily volume. Opterra is a full cloud-native operating platform designed to connect front-, middle-, and back-office capabilities within a single architecture, bringing precision to all workflows across the entire investment lifecycle - from position management and reporting to accounting to treasury and reconciliation. It is tailored to fit the unique operating environments of hedge funds, asset managers, private market funds, and capital markets firms. Aquata is a self-service data platform purpose-built for the investment industry, featuring pre-configured connectivity with data providers, as well as industry-specific data models, lineage, quality, transformation, and reporting tools. Arcesium Intelligence, embedded in Opterra and Aquata, is designed to empower firms to deploy agentic AI across investment operations and data management workflows. About Arcesium Arcesium (C) is a global financial technology company delivering front-to-back technology solutions for some of the world's most sophisticated financial institutions, including hedge funds, asset managers, private markets, sell side, and digital assets firms. Expertly designed to achieve a synchronized golden source of data throughout a client's ecosystem, Arcesium's cloud-native technology is built to systematize the most complex workflows and help clients achieve scale. Today, Arcesium services over $6.7T in gross AUM and over $1.2T in sell-side capital balances and has modelled over 178 million investments to date. Arcesium was built from a platform developed and tested by investment and technology development firm, the D. E. Shaw group, and launched as a joint venture with Blackstone Multi-Asset Investing. J.P. Morgan, another large client, later made a strategic investment in the company, helping Arcesium further its mission: to power the entire investment lifecycle. Arcesium currently has a staff of over 2,600 software engineering, accounting, operations, and treasury professionals. About MarketAxess MarketAxess (Nasdaq: MKTX) operates a leading electronic trading platform that delivers greater trading efficiency, a diversified pool of liquidity and significant cost savings to institutional investors and broker-dealers across the global fixed-income markets. Approximately 2,100 firms leverage MarketAxess' patented technology to efficiently trade fixed-income securities. Our automated and algorithmic trading solutions, combined with our integrated and actionable data offerings, help our clients make faster, better-informed decisions on when and how to trade on our platform. MarketAxess' award-winning Open Trading(R) marketplace is widely regarded as the preferred all-to-all trading solution in the global credit markets. Founded in 2000, MarketAxess connects a robust network of market participants through an advanced full trading lifecycle solution that includes automated trading solutions, intelligent data and index products and a range of post-trade services. Learn more at www.marketaxess.com. Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements This press release may contain forward-looking statements, including statements about the outlook and prospects for MarketAxess Holdings Inc. (the "Company" or "MarketAxess"), market conditions and industry growth, as well as statements about the Company's future financial and operating performance. These and other statements that relate to future results and events are based on MarketAxess' current expectations. The Company's actual results in future periods may differ materially from those currently expected or desired because of a number of risks and uncertainties, including: global economic, political and market factors; the level of trading volume transacted on the MarketAxess platform; the rapidly evolving nature of the electronic financial services industry; the level and intensity of competition in the fixed-income electronic trading industry and the pricing pressures that may result; the variability of our growth rate; our ability to introduce new fee plans and our clients' response; our ability to attract clients or adapt our technology and marketing strategy to new markets; risks related to our growing international operations; our dependence on our broker-dealer clients; the loss of any of our significant institutional investor clients; our exposure to risks resulting from non-performance by counterparties to transactions executed between our clients in which we act as an intermediary in matched principal trades; risks related to self-clearing; our dependence on third-party suppliers for key products and services; our ability to enter into strategic alliances and to acquire other businesses and successfully integrate them with our business; our dependence on our management team and our ability to attract and retain talent; risks related to sanctions levied against states or individuals that could expose us to operational or regulatory risks; the effects of climate change or other sustainability risks that could affect our operations or reputation; the effect of rapid market or technological changes on us and the users of our technology; issues related to the development and use of artificial intelligence; our ability to successfully maintain the integrity of our trading platform and our response to system failures, capacity constraints and business interruptions; the occurrence of design defects, errors, failures or delays with our platforms, products or services; our vulnerability to malicious cyber-attacks and attempted cybersecurity breaches; our actual or perceived failure to comply with privacy and data protection laws; our ability to protect our intellectual property rights or technology and defend against intellectual property infringement or other claims; our use of open-source software; limitations on our flexibility because we operate in a highly regulated industry; the increasing government regulation of us and our clients; our exposure to costs and penalties related to our extensive regulation; our risks of litigation and securities laws liability; our tax filing positions; our future capital needs and our ability to obtain capital when needed; limitations on our operating flexibility contained in our credit agreement; our exposure to financial institutions by holding cash in excess of federally insured limits; and other factors. The Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. More information about these and other factors affecting MarketAxess' business and prospects is contained in MarketAxess' periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and can be accessed at www.marketaxess.com. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20261007958696/en/ (C) Business Wire - 2026

Compliance Jobs Report: Oct. 2. The Compliance Jobs Report this week has hiring news at Crocs, Chewy, Block, Stryker, Ritz-Carlton Yachts (yes, that's a thing) and a slew of financial firms. Radical Compliance also have promotions to note at McKesson, BNP Paribas, and elsewhere; and job leads in retail, healthcare, and payments. The healthcare salary will make you faint. Radical Compliance gather the Jobs Report news items from LinkedIn, press releases, and wherever else Radical Compliance can find tips - and thank you to everyone who sends them in, you make the Jobs Report possible! If you have any gossip to share (even confidentially) email me at [email protected] or find me on LinkedIn. Compliance Jobs. This week Radical Compliance begin at Crocs, perhaps the world's most well-known maker of ugly but comfortable shoes; the company has hired Anne DeTraglia as vice president of internal audit and enterprise risk. DeTraglia walks into Crocs from Sabre Corp., where she had also been VP of audit and risk until she left the company earlier this year. Gina Bucker is joining Chewy, the online pet food delivery people, as head of internal audit; she starts Oct. 5. Bucker comes to Chewy from JetBlue, where she had been chief audit executive since the start of 2025. Changing of the compliance guard at Swedbank! The Swedish bank says chief compliance officer Britta Hjorth-Larsen is stepping down after four years on the job for personal and family reasons and is moving home to Denmark. Eva Wilhelmsson, deputy CCO and a long-time Swedbank executive, has been appointed acting chief compliance officer until further notice. Payments firm Block has hired Nick DiBari as lead for compliance issues management. DiBari joins the company after seven years at Interactive Brokers, the last five of them as global head of anti-money laundering compliance. (This would be the same Block, by the way, that proudly announced eight months ago that it was cutting 40 percent of its staff to embrace AI. Glad to see at least some humans are still getting hired.) First Citizens Bank has deposited Matt Marteney onto the payroll as vice president of compliance. Marteney joins First Citizen after 28 years at Wells Fargo, where he had most recently been director of financial crimes governance. Wolfgang Rieg has joined British insurance firm Howden as executive compliance business partner. Rieg comes to Howden all the way from New Zealand, where he had been a manager of conduct supervision for the country's Financial Markets Authority. Speaking of executive compliance roles, Judy Lipton just gave up her job at BlackRock as global head of executive compliance; to join asset management firm Millennium ($92 billion assets under management) as compliance chief operating officer. Lipton had been with BlackRock in various compliance roles for 11 years. Nancy Freda-Smith has stepped down from her role as chief audit executive at Ralph Lauren Corp. after 15 years at the company in various audit roles. Next up: Freda-Smith has joined the board of Tempest Therapeutics, where she will serve as audit committee chair. Moment, a fintech that bills itself as "the AI operating system for investment management," has hired Ron Steinfeld as chief compliance officer. Steinfeld joins the firm from MarketAxess, where he had also been chief compliance officer. Jim Back has been hired at Tata Steel in the Netherlands, working as antitrust counsel on the company's ethics and compliance team. Back was last seen at Teva Pharmaceuticals, where he had been senior counsel for EU antitrust issues until last year. David Colford has left Airmar Technology, where he had been a regulatory compliance and sustainability specialist. He's now at Insulet Corp. as a senior product stewardship specialist. Sophie Hibburd has joined Astellas Pharma as ethics and compliance affiliate business partner for Australia. Hibburd had previously been Takeda's head of ethics and compliance for the Oceania region. Merrick Bank, a merchant bank based in Salt Lake City, has hired Brooke Weaver as a level II compliance analyst. Weaver previously worked at Medallion Bank on its compliance testing team. In Omaha, Neb., OrthoNebraska has hired Brayden Walsh as a compliance coordinator. Walsh previously worked at the Developmental Disability Center of Nebraska as director of quality assurance and compliance. Meghan Weaver has been hired as a senior compliance officer at Financial Plus Credit Union in Flint, Mich. Weaver comes to Financial Plus from Comerica Bank, where she had been a retail compliance advisory manager. Amanda Holst has a new gig at Stryker as senior director of compliance, governance, risk, and strategy. Holst comes to the medical equipment maker from United Therapeutics, where she most recently had been senior director of compliance program operations. Chromally, an aerospace manufacturer, just picked up Darie Achstein-Conway as U.S. import compliance manager. Achstein-Conway has previously worked as a trade compliance consultant with Axiom, where Chromally had been one of her clients. Lisa Pepe-Whittaker has taken a job with Fortitude Re as senior vice president of compliance and legal. She previously worked at Deutsche Bank for four years, most recently as global head of requirements, conduct, and reporting. Orion Financial, a credit union based in Memphis, has hired Miles Wolfe as director of IT governance, risk, and compliance. Wolfe comes to Orion from First Horizon Bank, where he had been senior VP and audit senior adviser. And in Miami, Raul Ocampo is the new senior manager for information and security compliance for the Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection, a group of three luxury yachts that people richer than me can take on vacation. Ocampo sails into this job from Optiv, where he had been head of cybersecurity operations. One hopes he got some free yacht time as part of the package. Regulatory world. Heidi Sorensen has joined the Department of Health & Human Services as deputy associate general counsel for program integrity at the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Sorensen previously spent 19 years at the law firm Alston & Bird. Moving up the ladder. The aptly named Community Bank, which runs community banks from Pennsylvania though New York and northern New England, has promoted Jeff Royer from senior compliance manager to chief compliance officer. Samantha Young has moved up at Wright-Pitt Credit Union in Ohio, from manager of internal audit to vice president of the same. McKesson has promoted Kendra Rester from senior manager of internal audit to senior manager of contracts compliance. BNP Paribas has promoted Alexandra Guerra from senior KYC officer to compliance review control officer. Curry's, a British retailer of personal technology gizmos, has promoted Will Volante from business manager to senior manager for governance, risk, and compliance. Vendors & service providers. Houssam Wazzan has moved out of his role at the World Economic Forum, where he had been lead for the group's Partnering Against Corruption Initiative; now he will head WEF's Civil Society and Responsible Governance program. Open req orders. UCI Health, the hospital system affiliated with the University of California at Irvine, is looking for a chief compliance officer. Job is based in Irvine, Calif., obviously. Salary range is listed at $254,000 to $536,000 but a "well-qualified" candidate "can generally expect $375,000 to $440,000." (The rumbling sound you hear in the distance is the stampede of healthcare compliance professionals rushing to apply.) Tailored Brands, the holding company for men's clothing outlets including Men's Wearhouse, Jos. A Bank, and K&G Fashion, is looking for a director of customs compliance. Job is based in New York City, with a salary range listed at $176,000 to $235,000. Global payments firm Remitly is seeking a head of global transaction monitoring. Job can be based in either Seattle or Arlington, Va., with a salary range of $208,000 to $260,000. Compliance meme of the week. That's all for this week's report. As always, if you have a tip or want to brag about your new job, promotion, career milestone, or anything else, email me at [email protected] or find me on LinkedIn. I'm always happy to give credit to the many hard-working people here in its corner of the business universe.