The Academic Corporate Bond TRACE Data set contains historic transaction-level data on all transactions in corporate bonds reported to TRACE. This data product is available solely to institutions of higher education and is intended to support academic research on corporate bonds by providing academics with access to masked identifying information regarding the dealer reporting each transaction. 

The fixed income distributions file is a cumulative list of distributions that have been announced per calendar year going back to 1/1/2017. Distributions include cash, stock and in kind distributions as a result of a bankruptcy reorganization plan, default interest payments, or other distributions in fixed income securities.

Created for firms, these reports and report cards display statistics related to firms' compliance with Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board rules and other requirements related to municipal securities and the MSRB's Electronic Municipal Market Access website.

Created for firms, these monthly reports cover trades of Treasuries, Securitized Products, Agency Bonds, and Corporate Debt that a member firm reported to the Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine (TRACE).  Firms are required to report trades in accordance with established FINRA rules and regulations.

Scholars have published several papers that evaluate TRACE's impact on liquidity, valuation and other aspects of the U.S. Corporate Bond market. Abstracts and links to the studies are listed below.

Released quarterly and free of charge, the TRACE Fact Book gives individual investors, market professionals, media and educational institutions a historical perspective of the OTC U.S. corporate bond market. The Fact Book provides insight into data and trends based on aggregated data as reported through TRACE.

This data provides total and average daily trading volumes for the prior month in corporate, agency and securitized products reported to TRACE.