Euroclear launches new fixed income liquidity data service

Brussels/London, 20 January 2021 - Euroclear is pleased to announce the launch of Euroclear LiquidityDrive, a new data service, offering in-depth liquidity analysis on all fixed income instruments settled within Euroclear.

By leveraging the scale and depth of Euroclear’s post trade ecosystem, which in 2019 settled the equivalent of EUR 837 trillion in securities transactions, Euroclear LiquidityDrive covers more than 460,000 global corporate and government bonds. Euroclear LiquidityDrive combines executed trade settlement data with custody activity data. The service is agnostic of whether the instrument is traded via an electronic platform or voice traded.  

The new service will provide valuable insights into asset liquidity and volume fluctuations, enabling market participants to improve their research intelligence in the areas of pre and post trade analysis and reporting. 

Edwin De Pauw, Head of Data Services and Innovation at Euroclear, commented: “The launch of Euroclear LiquidityDrive reflects the way Euroclear looks at innovation. As a financial market infrastructure with a track record of providing high quality settlement services to the world’s leading financial institutions, we are well positioned to provide a value add  solution to increase transparency and efficiency in the market. We have worked together with the industry to define the features of our new product and we are excited to help our clients unlock liquidity in global fixed income markets.”

Euroclear LiquidityDrive is part of Euroclear Information Solutions which houses all Euroclear’s data business lines. 

Euroclear group is the financial industry’s trusted provider of post trade services. At the core, the group provides settlement, safe-keeping and servicing of domestic and cross-border securities for bonds, equities and derivatives to investment funds. Euroclear is a proven, resilient capital market infrastructure committed to delivering risk-mitigation, automation and efficiency at scale for its global client franchise.

The Euroclear group includes Euroclear Bank - which is rated AA+ by Fitch Ratings and AA by Standard & Poor’s - as well as Euroclear Belgium, Euroclear Finland, Euroclear France, Euroclear Nederland, Euroclear Sweden and Euroclear UK & Ireland. The Euroclear group settled the equivalent of EUR 837 trillion in securities transactions in 2019, representing 239 million domestic and cross-border transactions and held an average of EUR 30.1 trillion in assets for clients.

For more information about Euroclear, please visit www.euroclear.com.