Cicada

Cicada Securities, LLC is a financial technology company revolutionizing the bond markets in Emerging Markets. It operates an Alternative Trading System (ATS) focused on local-currency-denominated government bonds in Mexico (M Bonos, UDI Bonos, and Cetes), enhancing liquidity and facilitating all-to-all access in an anonymous trading environment through central limit orderbook and request-for-quote protocols. Cicada Securities, LLC is an SEC-registered broker-dealer and FINRA member, and Cicada SEF, LLC is an applicant for swap execution facility registration with the CFTC. The company offers a trading platform, live pricing data, and a programmatic API for direct access to LatAm local-currency rates market liquidity, backed by 500 Global.

Cicada is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Financial-Services, Fintech, Trading, and Bonds.

Cicada’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, support, and 6 more developer resources.

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13.0/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

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Company Financial-Services Fintech Trading Bonds Fixed Income Capital Markets Emerging Markets Mexico Broker-Dealer

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 13.0/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 3.6 / 17

Access Clarity 4.7 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.3 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.5 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Login

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Source (apis.yml)

aid: cicada
name: Cicada
description: Cicada Securities, LLC is a financial technology company revolutionizing the bond markets in Emerging Markets.
  It operates an Alternative Trading System (ATS) focused on local-currency-denominated government bonds in Mexico (M Bonos,
  UDI Bonos, and Cetes), enhancing liquidity and facilitating all-to-all access in an anonymous trading environment through
  central limit orderbook and request-for-quote protocols. Cicada Securities, LLC is an SEC-registered broker-dealer and FINRA
  member, and Cicada SEF, LLC is an applicant for swap execution facility registration with the CFTC. The company offers a
  trading platform, live pricing data, and a programmatic API for direct access to LatAm local-currency rates market liquidity,
  backed by 500 Global.
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://cicada.io/favicon_32.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cicada/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Financial-Services
- Fintech
- Trading
- Bonds
- Fixed Income
- Capital Markets
- Emerging Markets
- Mexico
- Broker-Dealer
tags_raw:
- Company
- Financial Services
- Fintech
- Trading
- Bonds
- Fixed Income
- Capital Markets
- Emerging Markets
- Mexico
- Broker-Dealer
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/cicada-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://cicada.io
- type: Documentation
  url: https://cicada.io/documentation/api
- type: APIReference
  url: https://cicada.io/products/api
- type: Login
  url: https://trade.cicada.io/
- type: Support
  url: mailto:hello@cicada.io
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://cicada.io/documentation/platform-terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://cicada.io/documentation/privacy-policy
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hellocicada/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence