Developed collaboratively with feedback from members of the buy-side and dealer communities, the Spotlight Program supports the advancement of Tradeweb’s diverse dealer community through a combination of individual dealer profiles, direct consultation and other promotion programs designed to bring more visibility to diverse dealers operating in electronic markets. In addition, Tradeweb enhanced its request-for-quote (RFQ) trading workflow to more prominently expose diverse dealer liquidity to Tradeweb’s participating buy-side clients, further strengthening engagement between diverse dealers and buy-side users on the platform.
Tradeweb’s diverse dealer community includes, among others, firms owned by women, veterans, individuals with disabilities and members of underrepresented racial and ethnic groups. The first protocol enhancement under the Spotlight Program is for RFQ users on Tradeweb’s U.S. Credit platform. Over time, Tradeweb expects to expand the program to include additional asset classes, protocols and promotional initiatives.
The Tradeweb Difference
If you are interested in becoming a Tradeweb Spotlight Dealer, please contact Heather Wootten, Corporate Social Responsibility & ESG at Tradeweb at: Heather.wootten@tradeweb.com.
If you would like to be enabled for trading with any of the firms featured below, please email your request to: CreditDealerTeam@tradeweb.com.
Spotlight Dealers
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Academy Securities is our nation's first Post-9/11 veteran, disabled-veteran, and Hispanic-owned and operated investment bank with strength in capital markets, public finance, fixed income and equity trading. Mission driven teams at Academy leverage their intensive past military training, in depth current financial experience, geopolitical knowledge, and broad networks for the benefit of clients.
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chevron_rightAmerican Veterans Group, PBC is committed to helping our clients access global capital markets. With a deep bench of experience, our team expertly analyzes market conditions to deliver meaningful results, while furthering clients’ social impact objectives. As a Public Benefit Corporation, 25% percent of our profits support veteran-focused charities that matter most to our clients in communities across the U.S.
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AmeriVet Securities, Inc. (AmeriVet), is a dual-registered Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business and Minority Business Enterprise broker-dealer that specializes in Debt and Equity Capital Markets, Public Finance, Institutional Agency Trading, and Investment Banking. Established in 1994, AmeriVet is dedicated to providing the highest level of service in the industry, while providing meaningful employment opportunities to post 9/11 military veterans.
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Veteran-Owned, Minority-Owned
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Trades Agencies, CDs, Corporates, MBS, Municipal Bonds, Preferreds and Treasuries on Tradeweb Direct
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chevron_rightBancroft Capital is a certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) specializing in Institutional Brokerage and Capital Markets services. Bancroft is founded upon a commitment to service – service to our clients, service to our country, service to our veterans and first responders who have sacrificed on our behalf.
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Blaylock Van, LLC (BV) is an African-American owned financial services company, providing personalized service for each client's unique needs and financial goals. Because the modern financial landscape evolves quickly, we engage an exclusive combination of strategic insights to provide an innovative approach to investment services.
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C.L. King & Associates is a 100% woman-owned full-service investment bank and broker-dealer founded in 1972. We provide capital market underwriting, investment banking, equity research, debt and equity securities sales and trading, and investor services to corporations and institutions.
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chevron_rightCabrera Capital Markets, LLC — founded in 2001 — provides investment banking and full-service institutional brokerage services worldwide to a substantial and diversified client base that includes financial institutions, unions, governments, corporations, hedge funds, and foundations and endowments. At the core of the Cabrera businesses is our commitment to our clients. We have a highly qualified team of experienced professionals who are well versed in using the firm’s resources to manage significant transactions through our growing franchise. The areas of our business are: public finance; municipal bond sales and trading; debt and equity capital markets; domestic equity sales, trading and execution; international equity sales, trading and execution; preferred stock sales and trading; taxable fixed income sales and trading; directed brokerage; and global investment banking.
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chevron_rightCastleOak Securities, L.P. is an industry leading minority-owned, boutique investment bank focused on superior client service in capital markets, sales & trading, and financial advisory. Headquartered in New York City, the firm specializes in primary and secondary sales and trading of fixed income, equity, and money market securities. The firm serves a broad array of corporate, governmental and institutional clients. Since its founding in 2006, CastleOak has grown to 6 offices across the US and has assisted its clients on public offerings totaling over $4 trillion.
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Minority-Owned
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Agency Discount Notes, U.S. Corporates, Commercial Paper, U.S. Treasuries and U.S. Certificate of Deposit
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chevron_rightDrexel Hamilton is an investment bank 100% owned and operated by military Veterans who served in harm’s way from Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan. The military is one of the most diverse institutions in the United States. At Drexel Hamilton our strength is our diverse leadership and workforce. We benefit from a cohesive team with different views delivering optimal performance.
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chevron_rightFalcon Square Capital is a full-service fixed income broker dealer serving Institutional Investors, Corporations, and Municipalities. Our client-focused Capital Markets approach delivers unique insight to institutional clients investing in fixed income. We trade the full spectrum of fixed income securities, including corporates, municipals, treasuries, agencies, RMBS, CMBS, commercial paper, certificates of deposit, and structured products. The firm’s dedication to unbiased research is evidenced in our third-party research platform. Through Section 28(e) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, we provide institutional clients a transparent and compliant trading arrangement to gain access to the qualified third-party research of their choice. We have invested in both technology and human capital to ensure that all trades are monitored and guided from execution to settlement. Our fixed income services are tailored to each institutional client’s needs, with a senior sales and trading team providing individualized runs and timely execution on all trades, and a knowledgeable operations group ensuring proper settlement. We have a proven track record of offering solutions that best fit our clients’ fixed income needs. Falcon Square Capital works with asset management firms, registered investment advisors, corporations, state treasuries and municipalities, depository institutions and trust departments, hedge funds, endowments, and other fiduciaries. We are a woman-owned institution and certified member of the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council.
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chevron_rightFounded in 1990, Great Pacific Securities (GPS) is an institutional financial services firm headquartered in Costa Mesa, California with branches in New York, New York and Chicago, Illinois. GPS is a certified Minority-Owned Business Enterprise (MBE), with a majority of the firm’s shares under Hispanic ownership and a registered Small Business Enterprise (SBE) by several agencies across the country.
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Minority-Owned
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Agency Discount Notes, U.S. Corporates, Commercial Paper, U.S. Treasuries
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chevron_rightLoop Capital Markets LLC is a full-service investment bank, brokerage and advisory firm that provides creative capital solutions for corporate, governmental and institutional entities across the globe. Our reputation for integrity and service – coupled with our track record of success – has allowed us to serve an expanding number of clients from country to country.
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chevron_rightEstablished in 1994, Mischler is the securities industry’s oldest federally-certified diversity broker-dealer owned and operated by Service-Disabled Veterans (SDVOSB), and a certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE). Co-headquartered in Stamford, CT and Newport Beach, CA, and 20 regional offices across the U.S., Mischler is home to 75+ seasoned, industry professionals with expertise in debt and equity underwriting, sales/trading across multiple asset classes, electronic trading, debt and equity market insight, compliance, and trade operations. Mischler boot prints extend across the primary debt (corporate and municipal) and equities capital markets, where since 2016 alone, we have underwritten 1600+ transactions representing $1.75T (notional) on behalf of 160+ Fortune and municipal issuers who view Mischler as a pure complement to the role played by lead underwriters. Mischler’s holistic approach to institutional brokerage is designed to deliver better execution by combining the best of concierge-style, high touch service and next-level trading technologies to benefit corporate treasury teams and asset managers who oversee investment and hedging strategies across any of FICC markets (Corporate and Municipal debt, Structured Products, Rates and FX), domestic and international equities, ETFs, and equity options. For customers focused on short-term cash management investment products, Mischler offers a full menu of yield-centric solutions for corporations and asset managers.
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Veteran-Owned, Disabled-Owned and Minority-Owned
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Multi-Bank Securities, Inc. (MBS), a service-disabled veteran-owned business, has been in business since 1987. It is a privately held company based in Southfield, Michigan. MBS is a fixed-income, institutional broker-dealer and is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as well as a member firm of Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) and Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC). MBS specializes in the sales and trading of fixed-income securities. Our licensed brokers and traders provide clients with financial instruments that include, but not limited to, U.S. Treasuries, agencies, mortgage-backed securities, corporate bonds, municipal bonds, certificates of deposit and commercial paper. MBS serves as an introducing broker-dealer of Pershing LLC, a BNY Mellon company. This relationship allows us to provide our clients with direct access to the marketplace’s most competitive prices. Our regional firm size allows MBS to tailor our service to each of our clients individually, thus meeting the needs of any size entity located anywhere in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.
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Veteran-Owned, Disabled-Owned
PRODUCTS
Trades Agencies, Corporates, CDs and Municipal Bonds on Tradeweb Direct
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Founded in 2007, Penserra is an institutional financial services firm with offices located in New York, Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area. Services include Global Equity Trading, Fixed Income Trading and Investment Banking. Penserra is a certified Minority-Owned Business Enterprise (MBE).
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chevron_rightR. Seelaus & Co., a full-service financial services firm headquartered in Chatham, NJ, was founded in 1984 and became a certified women’s business enterprise (WBE) in 2015. Seelaus has both a broker dealer and an asset manager, Seelaus Asset Management. The broker dealer has a broad range of product capabilities including debt, equity, rates, preferreds, munis, and ABS sales and trading. Our broad and deep distribution channels with smaller investors, family offices, RIA’s and middle market institutional accounts as well as with the large asset managers are a major strength of the firm. We also have a retail salesforce covering high net worth individuals and families that have been with the firm for a generation. Our asset manager has over $850mm in assets under management and offers several impact investing strategies in addition to our suite of more traditional investment offerings.
OWNERSHIP
Woman-Owned
PRODUCTS
U.S. Corporates, Municipal Bonds and U.S. Treasuries
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chevron_rightRoberts & Ryan Investments, Inc. is America's first service-disabled veteran-owned broker dealer. We are seasoned financial professionals, 38% of whom served in the Armed Forces and 100% patriots with exceptional work ethic and knowledge of the financial markets. Our Advisory Board includes distinguished former senior military officers and corporate leaders. Our social mission is to donate a percentage of gross revenue to Veteran Foundations and non- veteran charities that support disadvantaged communities. ▪ Certified as a 51% Disabled Veteran Owned Broker Dealer: ▪ NVBDC – National Veteran Business Development Council ▪ NaVOBA – National Veteran Owned Business Association ▪ Disability:IN – Empower business to achieve disability inclusion and equality ▪ SDVOB – Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Business in New York ▪ CDSBE – Certified Disabled Small Business Enterprise in South Central Texas Region ▪ Member FINRA/SIPC/MSRB.
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Samnuel A. Ramirez & Co. (“Ramirez”) is a nationwide, full-service investment bank, brokerage and advisory firm serving the needs of thousands of individual investors, business owners and top institutional investors, corporations and government agencies in the U.S. Since 1971, our mission has been to help clients succeed by executing with integrity, experience, teamwork and performance.
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Siebert Williams Shank & Co., LLC (SWS) is an independent non-bank financial services firm that offers investment banking, sales and trading, research, and advisory services. We provide customized solutions incorporating comprehensive financial advisory, capital raising, and risk management guidance with the mission of delivering the highest level of value-added services to our clients. Dually headquartered in New York and Oakland, our firm comprises over 125 diverse professionals spanning over 19 offices across the United States.
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chevron_rightTigress Financial Partners is the nation's only disabled, and woman-owned financial services firm. We offer a full suite of capital market services to institutional clients seeking diversity and access to global products, in both primary and secondary markets across Fixed Income and Equities.
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Headquartered in Boca Raton, FL with offices in New York, NY and Charlotte, NC, Zeus Financial, LLC (member FINRA/MSRB/SIPC) is a registered broker-dealer engaged in the wholesale distribution of a broad range of fixed income securities. Zeus seeks to offer both liquidity and new issue distribution to all of its institutional accounts in Mortgage-Backed Securities, Municipal Bonds, CDs and Structured Products. As a certified Minority Business Enterprise, Zeus is committed to finding the best talent to support its continued growth and innovation.
