Tradeweb to buy investment tech firm ICD for $785 mln

Tradeweb Markets Inc. is focused on building and operating electronic marketplaces for its global network of clients across the financial ecosystem. The Company’s marketplaces facilitate trading across a range of asset classes, including rates, credit, equities and money markets. It supports its clients by providing solutions across the trade lifecycle, including pre-trade, execution, post-trade and data. Its technology supports multiple asset classes, trading protocols and geographies. The Company provides deep liquidity pools to the institutional, wholesale and retail client sectors through its Tradeweb Institutional, Dealerweb and Tradeweb Direct platforms. It provides fully electronic, hybrid and voice trading for the wholesale community on its Dealerweb platform. Its network comprises clients across the institutional, wholesale and retail client sectors, including global asset managers, hedge funds, insurance companies, central banks, banks and dealers, and others.