The Benefits of BondCliQ
Buy-side Issues with Current Market Structure
Pre-trade institutional quote data from market makers is loosely organized, often poor quality and frequently not actionable, which creates an inefficient trading environment for block trading.
Buy-side Benefits
BondCliQ’s consolidated quote platform, BondTIQ, creates a competitive environment that encourages market makers to compete for client order flow based on price and customer service. The result is a more efficient institutional secondary trading market that has: centralized and organized pricing information, higher quality pre-trade data, and actionable bids and offers.
Sell-side Issues with Current Market Structure
Market makers do not have access to aggregated pre-trade institutional quote data and are limited in their ability to compete for high value client order flow, significantly impairing the commercial viability of institutional market making.
Sell-side Benefits
BondCliQ’s business structure and platform mechanics create a new institutional market making environment that empowers dealers by: providing access to critical pre-trade information, promoting fair competition for institutional client order flow, and creating a new revenue opportunity through the monetization of quote data.
Regulators Issues
Essential data needed to establish value is missing from the corporate bond market, leaving regulators unable to consistently monitor market practices or accurately quantify market performance.
Regulator Benefits
BondCliQ’s consolidated quote platform, BondTIQ, improves price integrity in the institutional corporate bond market by creating a price formation process that aggregates all available market maker quotes, facilitates access for all market participants, and records historical pricing data.
The BondCliQ Team
CHRIS WHITE
Founder & CEO
Chris White has 18 years of financial services experience with more than 12 years dedicated to fixed income market development. His comprehensive background includes equity trading, bond sales, trading platform development and proprietary product development.
chris@bondcliq.com | (646) 258-4878
CFO and Head of Corporate Development
Renaud Pelletier has over 20 years of financial services experience. His 14 years in investment banking allowed him to develop substantial experience in domestic and cross-border M&A as well as capital raising across a variety of industries. In recent years, he has been focused on the FinTech sector, serving as CFO of two FinTech startups.
renaud@bondcliq.com | (646) 357-2516
CTO
Laks Narayan is the former CTO of the Renewable Energy Trading firm, Skystream markets, where he led the building of RECstream, the trading platform technology for RECs. In his 16 year career in finance technology, Laks managed global technology teams in Fixed Income, Currencies and commodities.
laks@bondcliq.com | (203) 297-8625
Head of Strategy and Product Development
Paul Faust has 25 years of experience in financial services with the majority of it focused on the credit markets. His experience as a sell side and buy side trader at some of the largest financial institutions gives him unique insight into and understanding of trade workflow, counter-party relationship management, trade workflow, systems integration and fixed income market structure.
paul@bondcliq.com | (914) 602-1133
Senior Developer
Shamaas Hussain is a web application developer and is experienced in both front-end and back-end web development. He is proficient in object oriented programming languages, client side languages, and also has expertise in database development. Some technologies with which he has worked with include Java, JavaScript, MySQL, and Web APIs. Before joining BondCliQ, he was a freelance developer for various SMBs.
shamaas@bondcliq.com | (201) 790-7302
Head of Sales
Kevin began his 23 year career in mortgage bonds, trading CMO’s, TBA’s and specified pools at Prudential Securities and Barclays. His transition into fixed income electronic trading began 16 years ago with TradingEdge (1999), which was acquired by MarketAxess in 2000. While at MarketAxess, Kevin helped establish the then nascent RFQ platform with the sell side as a Dealer Relationship Manager.
kevin@bondcliq.com | (917) 364-3722
Relationship Manager
Melissa has 10 years of experience in Fixed Income Markets and is the former manager of 3 corporate bond dealer sales desks. Her sell side experience includes MF Global, Morgan Keegan/Raymond James, and BNY Mellon.
melissa@bondcliq.com | (917) 576-6287