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What is fractional fixed income?
Discover how fractional shares lower barriers to entry.
Thanks to Apex technology, your investors can now access
fixed income products with as little as $100*.
Investing in fixed income products has historically required high initial investments and a whole lot of manual processing. Not anymore. With Apex’s Fixed Income API, your trading platform can now deftly handle a wide range of fixed income products — including fractional bond trading — to help unlock portfolio diversification for a wide array of investors.
We’ve reimagined the previously opaque fixed-income experience, making bonds as accessible as equities through fractional trading, integrated tools, and smart execution. Now, advisors can submit fixed income orders, and our technology can handle it from there — performing the necessary checks and calculations on your behalf to help ensure best execution.
Comprehensive solution
From researching available securities and getting real-time pricing, to order placement, monitoring, execution, and investor documents — it’s all built in.
Best Execution
By aggregating liquidity across multiple venues, we help enable best-execution pricing and a better buying experience for both advisors and investors.
Reference and evaluated pricing data
Have reference data for 1M+ fixed income securities at your fingertips, including real-time evaluated pricing on 100K+ securities (not including fractional fixed income products).
Streamlined processing
Automated, straight-through processing and reporting designed to eliminate manual steps and bandwidth barriers — a process like the one that allowed us to handle more than 663M+ trades in 2024.**
International access
With DTCC and Euroclear integrations, Apex has enabled seamless U.S. fixed income trading for investors in Brazil, Korea, Mexico, and other countries.
Fractional fixed income
Offer fixed income trading with as little as $100* and filter products based on yield, ratings, tax-efficient jurisdictions, and more. All designed to democratize access.
* Fractional fixed income service features may not be available for all fixed income investments. Please contact your Apex representative for additional details, or to learn more about our products and services. Investors should consider their investment objectives, the risks involved, and consult with their investment and/or tax professional about their specific circumstances prior to making an investment decision.
**Apex proprietary data as of 12/31/2024
Unlock access with a lower implementation lift and cost, thanks to our APIs. Let’s talk about the details that matter most to you.
Discover more about the features and benefits of offering fixed income — either as whole or fractional shares — in this blog and press release. Just click below to read on.