# Cicada

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/cicada/  
**Website:** https://cicada.io  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 13.0 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 13.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 21.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 27.6 |
| Access Clarity | 27.6 |

Regulatory layer — **Securities & Market Data**: 23.3 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Cicada Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

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

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/cicada/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.