Announcing AIQ Markets

I would like to formally announce AIQ Markets and our U.S. corporate bond intelligence product, AIQ Insight, ahead of our sponsorship of FILS Credit Invest this week on December 4-5, 2025!

Our goal at AIQ Markets (www.aiqmarkets.com) is to help fixed income market professionals move faster. AIQ Insight, our initial product, is a U.S. corporate bond co-pilot that lets traders, portfolio managers, and advisors search bond and trade data, compare spreads, monitor illiquid issues, run transaction cost analysis, build execution strategies, and surface curve-sector rotation ideas.

Some people call it “ChatGPT for Bonds…”

In my opinion, our team has built the best fixed income search product to have ever existed, even at this early stage. It is dynamic, fast, creative, and accurate.

The thing plays 4D Chess. I can’t believe a tool like this is possible, and never thought I would see something like it in my lifetime. The ability of the underlying AI models to piece together intent and spit out complex answers to a wide range of queries on corporate bonds can be almost scary. AIQ Insight initially has access to all public U.S. corporate bonds and their price data.

We have made significant improvements since our initial soft launch on October 1st:

• Reduced response latency by more than 70%
• Integrated the FINRA live data feed (100k + trades per day)
• Smart, reactive, custom dashboard
• Watchlist and portfolio features
• Include 35+ suggested questions across TCA & Execution Strategy, Trade & Price Activity, Bond Lookup, and General Market Knowledge categories

We felt search was the right thing to get right first, because if you can’t find a bond, you can’t trade it. AIQ Insight will create more trades, by helping market participants sift through the massive number of U.S. corporate bond issuances and trades with any statement, question or prompt. And, everyone wins when there are more trades.

We are also working on several key partnerships, which we will reveal in the coming weeks. After all, to succeed in illiquid markets you can’t just be “smart,” you need to know the right people!!! Distribution is everything!

When it’s all said and done, we believe AI will do to illiquid fixed income, what the internet did to liquid equities, treasuries with quick, fast CLOBs. It’s a long road to get there though…

Visit Booth #3 at FILS Credit Invest this Thursday and Friday to try it out! If you are not attending the conference, feel free to schedule a demo on our website or reach out to me at kevin@aiqmarkets.com.

With gratitude and excitement for what lies ahead.

Kevin Rutter
CEO