Municipal Bonds

The world’s fastest growing electronic marketplace for muni bonds

Unlock the power of muni pricing with CP+™

Bring precision, speed, and clarity to muni price discovery with our award-winning AI pricing engine, CP+. 

Learn how CP+ is reshaping the muni trading day.

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Optimize your Portfolio Trading execution strategy for Tax-Exempt Muni bonds

With the ability to negotiate on individual line items, and capacity of up to 1,500 per portfolio trade, you can eliminate labor-intensive workflows and gain execution certainty of multiple bonds with a single transaction.

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Our muni trading capabilities

MarketAxess provides greater visibility into the municipal bond market with more efficient access to liquidity and improved price discovery. No matter how you want to trade:

  • Bid-wanted lists of up to 200 line items

  • Open Trading, our all-to-all solution

  • Dealer inventory and client offerings

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Muni Bond Market Structure 2025: The Dealer View

Munis have been a key part of the opportunity for fixed income traders, following high yields around aggressive rate hikes in 2024. Learn more about how changes in market structure are presenting new challenges to the muni dealer community in this report in partnership with Coalition Greenwich.

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$ 134 bn

traded volume*

+ 22 %

YOY traded volume*

$ 5 .1bn

auto-executed*

584 +

clients submitted inquiries*

Looking to automate your Muni bid-wanted trading experience?

Auto-X RFQ is now available for tax-exempt municipal bonds. Learn more about this new automated approach to your Muni BW process.

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*as of FY 2024