What Bond Radar does

Bond Radar is a London-based subscription data and intelligence service for the global primary debt issuance markets, founded in 2002 and acquired by 9fin in March 2025. The company delivers real-time news, expert editorial analysis, and historical pricing data covering syndicated bonds, syndicated loans, and leveraged finance across investment grade, high yield, and emerging market segments. Its core product set comprises two regional services — the Emerging Markets service (EMRD) covering non-Japan Asia, CEEMEA, and Latin America, and the High Grade/High Yield service (IGRD/HYRD) covering North America, Western Europe, and Japan/Australasia — supplemented by a Data API, an iOS mobile application, weekly market wraps, and redesigned monthly data snapshots with ESG and league table analytics.

The technology stack centers on a curated editorial pipeline producing real-time deal execution updates, post-pricing reviews, and market summaries, backed by a 20+ year historical database of priced deals that supports league tables, book distribution statistics, and custom searches. Distribution is multi-channel: a password-protected web platform, the Bloomberg terminal via the BRRD screen code, a native iOS application, and a developer-facing Data API, ensuring access across trading desks, mobile workflows, and institutional analytics environments.

Bond Radar operates a B2B enterprise subscription model targeting investment banks, asset managers, and law firms engaged in debt capital markets, with annual and multi-year contracts sold via direct enterprise field sales and supported by free trial onboarding. The company is registered as Bond Radar Ltd in England and Wales (company number 04545013), with editorial operations in London and Hong Kong serving a globally distributed subscriber base.

Name

Bond Radar

Legal name

Bond Radar Ltd

Website

https://bondradar.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2002

Operating status

Acquired

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Bond Radar is a London-based subscription intelligence service delivering real-time news, expert analysis, and 20+ years of historical bond issuance data to investment banks, asset managers, and law firms across global primary debt markets.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Bond Market Intelligence & Data

NAICS

Portfolio Management and Investment Advice (523940)

SIC

Investment Advice (6282)

akta.pro primary industry

Bond Auction & Primary Issuance Platforms (FSAFACAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

Fixed Income Electronic Trading Platforms (Bonds/Credit) (FSAFANAB)

Keywords

• Bond market intelligence
• Debt issuance data
• Primary bond markets
• Capital markets news
• Fixed income analytics

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Subscription Services: Annual and multi-year subscription plans for access to bond market intelligence services including Emerging Markets (EMRD) and High Grade (IGRD/HYRD) coverage tiers

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Bond Radar is a real-time news and intelligence service for the Global Primary Debt Issuance Markets, delivering fast and accurate information on syndicated bonds, syndicated loans, and leveraged finance transactions across Investment Grade, High Yield, and Emerging Markets. Its services combine live deal-execution updates and expert analysis with a historical database of priced deals that supports customized searches, charts, league tables, and book distribution statistics. The platform is accessed via web subscription, Bloomberg terminal (BRRD screen), a dedicated Data API, and an iOS mobile application.

Product overview

Bond Radar is a premier intelligence and data service provider for the Global Primary Debt Issuance Markets, offering a unified platform for Syndicated Bonds, Syndicated Loans, and Leveraged Finance coverage. The product portfolio consists of two core regional services—Emerging Markets (EMRD) covering non-Japan Asian, Central & Eastern European, Middle Eastern & African, and Latin American regions; and High Grade (HG/IGRD/HYRD) covering high grade/high yield bonds from North American, Western European, and Japan/Australasian markets. Additional offerings include a Data API for programmatic data integration, a mobile iOS application, weekly market wraps, and monthly data snapshots with enhanced visualizations. The service delivers real-time updates throughout the new issue deal execution process, with content accessible via the website, Bloomberg terminal (BRRD), and mobile device.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Emerging Markets Service (EMRD) Real-time news and intelligence subscription covering emerging market debt issuance across non-Japan Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa, and Latin America, with deal-execution updates, post-pricing reviews, and historical deal data for institutional subscribers.
• High Grade / High Yield Markets Service (IGRD/HYRD) Subscription service providing comprehensive coverage of high grade, high yield, and leveraged finance bonds issued in North American, Western European, and Japan/Australasian markets, including real-time new-issue intelligence and historical data.
• Bond Radar Data API Developer API enabling institutional clients to programmatically access Bond Radar's bond market data and integrate it into their own analytical workflows and applications.
• Bond Radar iOS App Native iOS mobile application providing subscribers with on-the-go access to Bond Radar's real-time bond market news, deals, and market intelligence.
• Weekly Market Wraps Recurring weekly summary reports covering regional primary bond and leveraged finance market activity across Europe, the US, CEEMEA, Asia, and Latin America, delivered to subscribers.
• Redesigned Monthly Data Snapshots Monthly summary reports with visualizations, volume charts, ESG bond issuance breakdowns, key metrics (average volume, cover ratios, redemptions), and league tables for primary bond markets, split by region and sector.
• Bloomberg Terminal Access (BRRD) Access channel that delivers Bond Radar's bond market intelligence and data inside the Bloomberg terminal environment via the BRRD screen, for institutional users already on Bloomberg.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Feature5 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Bloomberg L.P. Bloomberg operates the dominant financial terminal and supplies broad fixed income data, news, and analytics (and hosts the BRRD screen). It competes with Bond Radar at the broader data layer while also serving as Bond Radar's most important distribution channel.
• Moody's Analytics: Moody's Analytics provides credit data, fixed income analytics, and primary issuance coverage used by banks and asset managers, competing for the same institutional wallet share as Bond Radar across high-grade and emerging market debt.
• 9fin: 9fin is the acquirer and broader parent platform offering debt market intelligence across leveraged loans, high-yield, and private credit. It overlaps with Bond Radar's primary issuance coverage while extending well beyond bonds into loans, restructuring, and private credit analytics.
• S&P Global Market Intelligence: S&P Global Market Intelligence (now incorporating S&P Capital IQ Pro and Dealogic) offers bond data, league tables, and primary issuance analytics that overlap with Bond Radar's EMRD, IGRD, and HYRD products across IG, HY, and EM segments.
• LSEG (Refinitiv): LSEG, through Refinitiv and IFR, provides fixed income reference data, pricing, and bond market news competing for the same institutional accounts that subscribe to Bond Radar's primary market intelligence.
• Informa (Ipreo / Acuris): Informa's Ipreo and Acuris units provide bond and loan issuance data, league tables, and primary market intelligence that overlap with Bond Radar's offerings, serving many of the same investment bank and asset manager customers.

Direct peers

• Creditflux: Creditflux focuses on leveraged loan and high-yield bond market data and news, overlapping with Bond Radar's HYRD and leveraged finance coverage. It serves similar asset managers, CLO desks, and syndicate teams with primary issuance intelligence.
• Dealogic: Dealogic is a financial data platform providing league tables, deal volume analytics, and pricing intelligence across primary bond, loan, and equity issuance. It directly competes with Bond Radar's EMRD/IGRD services for the same investment bank and asset manager customers.
• International Financing Review (IFR): IFR, published by LSEG, provides news, analysis, and data on international bond and loan issuance. It competes head-to-head with Bond Radar's real-time news coverage of new issue deal execution and post-pricing reviews across IG, HY, and EM.
• Xtract Research: Xtract Research provides bond document research, covenant analysis, and credit intelligence on new and outstanding issues, complementing and partially overlapping Bond Radar's primary issuance intelligence offering for institutional credit buyers.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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