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Why True Market

We Didn't Arrive From Fintech.
We Came From the Bond Market.

True Market is the continuation of decades spent building, operating, and learning from electronic fixed-income infrastructure—with a clearer view of what the market needs next.

Built Before

BondDesk

Helped build the first electronic bond trading platform in the United States.

Recognized by the Market

Acquired by Tradeweb

BondDesk's success culminated in its acquisition by Tradeweb — recognition of the platform, client relationships, and market expertise we had built.

Learned the Gaps

Market structure, data, connectivity

Years inside electronic bond trading clarified what legacy systems still could not connect.

Built ForwardTrue Market

We took what we learned building and operating fixed-income technology and used it to create something better—more connected, more intelligent, and built for where the market is going.

We've built market infrastructure before.
This time, we're connecting the parts that were left behind.

Not adapted from another asset class

True Market was purpose-built around the complexity and fragmentation of fixed income.

Not a theoretical market model

The infrastructure has been refined through live institutional trading and real production workflows.

Not another isolated application

The system connects data, market access, portfolio context, and execution as one infrastructure layer.

Deep Market Experience

The team came from BondDesk — and stayed in fixed income.

True Market was built by people who already knew the market from the inside. The team carries forward the product, trading, technology, operations, and client experience developed while helping build BondDesk.

15BondDesk veterans on the True Market team
25+ YearsAverage experience in electronic fixed-income trading
10+ YearsBuilding True Market's next generation of institutional infrastructure

The advantage is continuity: the same market knowledge that helped shape electronic fixed-income trading is now being applied to portfolio intelligence, liquidity, connectivity, and execution.

Built in the Market

The best technology starts with understanding how the market actually works.

The durable advantage is the foundation around it: proprietary data, live connectivity, production workflows, and the accumulated knowledge that comes from operating inside the market.

131,200Trades executed
last four quarters
$11.4BPrincipal traded
last four quarters
+247%YoY trade growth
+260%YoY principal growth
10+Years building True Market
Built With Institutions

Experience matters. Client results validate it.

The strongest proof of the platform is what institutional clients say after putting it to work in real fixed-income workflows.

We are thrilled to partner with True Market, whose solution will help us provide greater efficiency for municipal bond clients and partners.

David HammerManaging Director & Head of Municipal Bond Portfolio ManagementPIMCO

True Market is best-in-class technology allowing us to scale our muni SMA business using our existing team. We’re already seeing amazing results, and we’re just getting started.

Head of Fixed IncomeInstitutional Client

This has exponentially increased my growth with the same staff.

Portfolio ManagerTop 10 U.S. Asset Manager
Why True Market

Built in the market. Designed for what comes next.

Infrastructure connecting portfolio intelligence, institutional liquidity, and execution.

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