A statistical distribution approach for measuring bond trade execution quality, our Best Execution Service utilizes ICE’s evaluated prices to help clients monitor trading activities and to help measure trading effectiveness across the growing number of venues and protocols more closely, which can assist users with meeting regulatory obligations.
Fixed income execution analysis is best observed over time and with many trades. While ICE’s Best Execution Service can help identify individual trade outliers, it also enables even deeper analysis by aggregating fixed income trades on a variety of levels and across broad asset coverage, including securities where trade details are not publicly disseminated.
Our Best Execution Score provides a trade-by-trade measure of relative execution quality. The score is a percentile where the trade differential (Trade Price to Reference Price) falls within a given distribution. Each night, ICE builds thousands of distributions based on market transactions.
Clients can also use the Best Execution Score for proposed trade prices or get a mark up / down to a price in a pre-trade context.
Time Series of Scores Analyze the trade up to 5 times giving context to the trading environment |
Depth of Scores Best Execution Service enables the comparison of trades at multiple levels—from bonds within the same asset class and tenor all the way down to the trades of bonds from the same issuer or even a specific bond itself |
Analyze back a number of years* with an immediate and robust set of trades scored to hit the ground running
* Dependent upon Asset Class coverage start date
Analyze back a number of years* with an immediate and robust set of trades scored to hit the ground running
* Dependent upon Asset Class coverage start date