See the Credit Markets, Live and in Color
Brian Bejile
Co-founder & CEO, Octaura
At Octaura, our mission is clear: to catalyze new growth in asset classes that technology has left behind. With 2026 underway, I’m excited to share how we plan to continue to bring this vision to life — making our solutions more accessible and actionable for every market participant.
In 2013, only 8% of IG bonds traded electronically – by2019 this rose to 25%. In this market, we saw COVID volatility rapidly accelerate adoption of electronic trading, as participants looked to source liquidity and offload risk. By 2024, IG electronic share jumped to ~45% -closing in at 50% by 20251.
This rapid adoption in times of market stress further showcases the need for electronic trading platforms across credit. Flying blind is no longer an excuse. In loan and CLO markets, Octaura has witnessed a similar appetite for efficiency gains in workflows and offloading risk quickly and effectively. In 2024, about 1% of the secondary loan market traded on Octaura, by July 2025 – this rose to 6.4% based on market volumes reported by the LSTA, and rose again to 7.7% by January 2026. Amidst a messy macro backdrop throughout 2025, we saw the demand from our clients for better tools to bring light into the more opaque corners of the credit market.
Why now?
The financial industry has seen remarkable innovation, yet some of the most foundational markets, like leveraged loans and CLOs,remain opaque and underserved. This year, we are renewing our commitment totransparency, collaboration and impact for these markets. It’s about simplifyingthe complex workflows that have been historically manual and labor-intensive,listening to our customers, and delivering solutions to the market at speed.
Solutions built for today’s market
To Octaura, seeing the markets live and in color means participants can navigate their days with greater efficiency. That’s why we’ve rebuilt Octaura from the ground up to provide:
- Innovate trading solutions: The clearest views of the loan and CLO markets, reducing time-to-transaction and enabling better execution. Watch this space for an even better trading experience, coming to Octaura in short order.
- Precise data and analytics: Real-time insights like never before in these markets, empowering confident decision, right now. With critical pricing and liquidity metrics data feeds already in place, we’re working on powerful visualization tools that will enable a wide variety of users to see the markets more clearly.
- A transformative marketplace: With over 90% of the loan market live on Octaura and a growing CLO community, Octaura is the definitive venue for secondary trading, data, and analytics – all in one place.
The future is colorful
As of today, you’ll find a refreshed take on Octaura’s brand, which is the foundation for the exciting solutions we’ll be bringing to market participants this year with the clear intention of making opaque credit markets live and in color.
Octaura Markets connects participants, reduces friction, and transforms trading. While Octaura Insights, our data platform and suite of data solutions, brings these markets to life with real-time analytics and pricing. And our proprietary engine – which we like to call Octaura Intelligence – merges deep expertise from our team, live data, world-class technology, and incredibly innovative minds for unmatched speed and accuracy.
This is just the beginning. As we move through 2026, you’ll see our brand, our products, and our people living this vision everyday. We’re here to unite the market and set new standards for insight, speed, and execution. Thank you for taking part in this journey.