IPC Systems recognized as one of The Most Influential Financial Technology Firms of 2024

We’re thrilled to announce that IPC Systems, Inc. has been recognized as one of The Most Influential Financial Technology Firms of 2024!

This recognition underscores our commitment to driving breakthroughs, advancing growth plans, and spearheading scale-ups in the realm of Financial Technology.

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IPC Systems, Inc. and Business Systems Partner to Deliver Future Proofed Data Management Strategies

London, 14 March 2024 – IPC, a premier communications and compliance solutions provider has announced a strategic partnership with Business Systems Ltd (“BSL”), a leading provider of compliance and customer experience solutions, to support organizations to future proof their data management strategies.

IPC has added Wordwatch, Business Systems’ cutting-edge Communications Compliance Management solution, to its Trading Communications Systems portfolio, providing its financial institution clients with efficient access to a unified management interface. This interface facilitates enhanced data accessibility, supports regulatory compliance, enables end-to-end management of interaction communications, and facilitates decommissioning of legacy voice recording infrastructure.

James Tonks, SVP Partner Development, IPC said: “We are always delighted to partner with industry leading solutions that complement our service offering and enhance our customer experience. Wordwatch is a great fit with our strategy and focus on communication workflow integration and enhanced data management delivery.”

William Davenport, Chief Sales Officer at Business Systems, commented: “We are delighted that IPC has joined our Wordwatch partner ecosystem, offering organizations an innovative solution to tackle data management challenges and to maximize the value derived from their voice and interaction data.”

Matt Ludlow, Head of Channel Partner at Business Systems, added: “’This collaboration fortifies our commitment to delivering innovative solutions to our clients. Wordwatch brings advanced capabilities, enabling organizations to navigate communication compliance seamlessly. Together, we empower businesses with efficient tools, ensuring regulatory adherence, streamlined communication management, and a phased approach to decommissioning legacy voice recording infrastructure.”

IPC’s Trading Communications Systems support the global voice trading community through a comprehensive suite of leading-edge communications technologies and tools, underpinned by its proprietary and award-winning Unigy® Platform. Trading Communications solutions include Service-as-a-Software offerings (Connexus), on-premise and mobile trading communications products and compliance and surveillance solutions. IPC’s most recent Trading Communications innovation, the OneView Portfolio, was launched at the end of 2023 and offers unparalleled integration and interoperability of voice-traded workflows within a single device and consolidated workspace.

Business Systems’ Wordwatch solution seamlessly ingests and manages both legacy and live communication recordings from any platform. It consolidates this data into a centralized ‘single pane of glass’ portal, empowering organizations to extract greater value from their interaction data.

About IPC

A specialist technology and service leader powering global financial markets for over 50 years, IPC Systems is at the forefront of electronic trading connectivity and state-of-the-art cloud communications, setting the standard for exceptional service, innovation, and expertise.

IPC’s customer-first approach is bolstered by an extensive and diverse financial ecosystem that spans all asset classes and connects market participants anywhere in the world for enhanced communication, collaboration, and compliance. Global services include electronic trading, trading communications, and infrastructure-as-a-service solutions.

IPC is ideally positioned to anticipate change and remain aligned with rapidly transforming markets, and to empower customers to adapt to change, now and in the future.  To learn more, visit www.ipc.com, explore our Insights page and follow us on LinkedIn.

About Business Systems

For over 35 years, Business Systems (“BSL”) has been a trusted leader in the digital transformation and regulatory compliance landscape. Their dedicated team of experts assist channel partners to craft customized, innovative solutions to drive growth and elevate Compliance and Customer Experience (CX).
Home to one of Europe’s largest engineering teams of voice and interaction data specialists, and trusted by world-leading banks for compliance, technology vendors turn to Business Systems fort the Communications Compliance Management solutions.
By offering easy to integrate and simple to deploy technology, Business Systems empowers its channel partners to solve their customers’ interaction data management challenges and generate more value from this data.
Whether transitioning to a cloud-based recording solution or contact centre platform, leveraging data estates to boost revenue, or increasing value proposition through the company’s partner program, Business Systems is committed to guiding clients and partners every step of their growth journey. Aligning strategies with evolving market trends and business goals.
Learn more at bslgroup.com

About Wordwatch

Wordwatch is a tool that allows clients to search, replay, and manage interaction data in a “single pane of glass” portal to simplify their compliance and IT needs. It gives organizations the flexibility they need to manage legal holds and extracts, with deployment options to fit their business and their challenges.

When organizations choose to implement Wordwatch into their business they benefit from user- friendly access to features that help streamline architecture, manage risk, demonstrate compliance through advanced reporting and generate more value from their data.

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The Realization Group for IPC Systems

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Lorna Bradford

Business Systems
lorna.bradford@bslgroup.com

New Cloud-Based Audio Solution Will Bring Instant Voice to ICE’s Instant Messaging Platform for Traders and Professional Investors

ATLANTA, NEW YORK and LONDON –  Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE), a leading global provider of technology and data, and IPC Systems, a leading provider of trading communications solutions, today announced plans to launch ICE Voice, a cloud-based audio solution that will be offered with ICE Chat to provide a seamless communications platform for traders and other market participants.

ICE Voice will bring together ICE Chat’s extensive network of over 120,000 active users and IPC’s Connexus Unigy private cloud platform to provide always on, persistent open connections between individuals or groups of traders across internal trading desks and with any other ICE Chat user signed up for the service. Users will be able to instantly jump from chat to voice and open calls from chat tabs and group chat rooms, and create Voice Blasts to ‘shout out’ to groups of open connections simultaneously. ICE Voice will also support full audio recording with configurable retention, anywhere, anytime playback of archived calls, and integrated chat and voice logs to create a single record of communications, aiding in trading desk or firm-wide compliance programs.

“For the first time, ICE’s users will have a single, integrated platform for chat and voice that matches both traders’ need for always-on, instantaneous connectivity with other traders, and firms’ desire for easy-to-access and use records that help them meet their record retention requirements,” said Maurisa Baumann, Head of Desktops and Feeds at ICE. “ICE Voice builds on our instant messaging service, which has become one of the largest networks in the financial industry, and utilizes IPC’s voice network for providing cloud-based audio connectivity with a single click.”

“IPC’s collaboration with ICE to develop ICE Voice brings our industry leading Connexus Unigy cloud technology together with the ICE Chat network to create a single, seamless and powerful solution for traders,” said Tim Carmody, Chief Technology Officer, IPC Systems. “This solution reinforces both IPC and ICE’s focus on continuous innovation in trading communications and connectivity, and enhancing the experience of the global trading community through greater integration and interoperability between chat, voice and electronic platforms, applications and workflows.”

ICE Voice will be seamlessly integrated into the ICE Chat platform, providing an efficient workflow for financial professionals to connect and interact as effortlessly as possible. It will combine voice connectivity with functionality that was designed specifically to match the custom needs of traders, including ICE Chat’s AI-powered Smart Text Recognition functionality, which turns texts into actionable data using APIs, and Message Blaster for sending single messages to multiple contacts.

IPC’s Trading Communications Systems support the global voice trading community through a comprehensive suite of leading-edge communications technologies and tools, underpinned by the proprietary and award-winning cloud-based Connexus Unigy platform. Trading Communications solutions include Service-as-a-Software offerings (Connexus), on-premise and mobile trading communications products and compliance and surveillance solutions, including its most recent solution, OneView Portfolio, which launched at the end of 2023.

About IPC

A specialist technology and service leader powering global financial markets for over 50 years, IPC Systems is at the forefront of electronic trading connectivity and state-of-the-art cloud communications, setting the standard for exceptional service, innovation, and expertise.

IPC’s customer-first approach is bolstered by an extensive and diverse financial ecosystem that spans all asset classes and connects market participants anywhere in the world for enhanced communication, collaboration, and compliance. Global services include electronic trading, trading communications, and infrastructure-as-a-service solutions.

IPC is ideally positioned to anticipate change and remain aligned with rapidly transforming markets, and to empower customers to adapt to change, now and in the future.  To learn more, visit www.ipc.com, explore our Insights page and follow us on LinkedIn.

About Intercontinental Exchange

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE) is a Fortune 500 company that designs, builds and operates digital networks that connect people to opportunity. We provide financial technology and data services across major asset classes helping our customers access mission-critical workflow tools that increase transparency and efficiency. ICE’s futures, equity, and options exchanges – including the New York Stock Exchange – and clearing houses help people invest, raise capital and manage risk. We offer some of the world’s largest markets to trade and clear energy and environmental products. Our fixed income, data services and execution capabilities provide information, analytics and platforms that help our customers streamline processes and capitalize on opportunities. At ICE Mortgage Technology, we are transforming U.S. housing finance, from initial consumer engagement through loan production, closing, registration and the long-term servicing relationship. Together, ICE transforms, streamlines and automates industries to connect our customers to opportunity.

Trademarks of ICE and/or its affiliates include Intercontinental Exchange, ICE, ICE block design, NYSE and New York Stock Exchange. Information regarding additional trademarks and intellectual property rights of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. and/or its affiliates is located here. Key Information Documents for certain products covered by the EU Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products Regulation can be accessed on the relevant exchange website under the heading “Key Information Documents (KIDS).”

Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 — Statements in this press release regarding ICE’s business that are not historical facts are “forward-looking statements” that involve risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of additional risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see ICE’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, including, but not limited to, the risk factors in ICE’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023, as filed with the SEC on February 8, 2024.

Category: Fixed Income and Data Services

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IPC accredited as AWS Direct Connect Partner

New York and London, December 5, 2023 – IPC is delighted to announce its certification as an accredited Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect Partner. As a member of the AWS Partner Network (APN), IPC can offer efficient and effective access to AWS resources, and other AWS Partners through its award-winning Connexus Platform, to an extensive global financial markets customer base to support electronic trading activities and market data management.

Leveraging IPC’s core Network-to-Network Interface (NNI) with AWS, IPC customers now have even faster, more secure, and efficient access to AWS services. Customers can connect directly and on a managed, hosted, or dedicated basis to AWS, with flexible bandwidth options (50MB to 100G).

AWS Direct Connect is a networking service that provides an alternative to using the internet to connect to AWS. As an AWS Direct Connect Partner, IPC can provide its customers with benefits such as seamless, low latency connectivity compared to standard internet connectivity, coupled with high-service resilience and availability, underpinned with industry leading, high-performance Service Level Agreements.

Tim Carmody, Chief Technology Officer at IPC said: “We are delighted to be accredited as an AWS Direct Connect Partner and to empower our customers’ cloud journey with secure, reliable, and fast connectivity to AWS. Our extensive global network of financial markets participants can take advantage of scalable, seamless access to cloud resources – and other AWS Partners – that can flex to their own business needs.”

About IPC

A specialist technology and service leader powering global financial markets for over 50 years, IPC Systems is at the forefront of electronic trading connectivity and state-of-the-art cloud communications, setting the standard for exceptional service, innovation, and expertise.

IPC’s customer-first approach is bolstered by an extensive and diverse financial ecosystem that spans all asset classes and connects market participants anywhere in the world for enhanced communication, collaboration, and compliance. Global services include electronic trading, trading communications, and infrastructure-as-a-service solutions.

IPC is ideally positioned to anticipate change and remain aligned with rapidly transforming markets, and to empower customers to adapt to change, now and in the future.  To learn more, visit www.ipc.com, explore our Insights page and follow us on LinkedIn.

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Vanessa Green

The Realization Group for IPC Systems

+44 7713 332303

Vanessa.green@therealizationgroup.com

IPC Chooses SmartOptics to elevate Algorithmic Trading Connectivity

Oslo, Norway – November 28, 2023 – Smartoptics, a leading provider of optical networking solutions, today announced that IPC Systems, a provider of secure, compliant communications and multi-cloud connectivity solutions for global financial markets, has selected Smartoptics to meet high-performance customer requirements for electronic trading. The Smartoptics solution offers low latency combined with simple management, short lead times and competitive pricing.

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Victoria Baillie

IPC Systems

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IPC expands market data coverage with Europe’s leading derivatives exchange

LONDON AND NEW YORK – November 21st, 2023 – IPC, a leading provider of electronic trading, trading communications and ‘as a service’ infrastructure solutions, has added a European derivatives exchange to its expanding portfolio of connected exchanges and trading venues.

IPC customers using Connexus Extranet can now access market data across Fixed Income, Equities, Equity Indices, ETF/ETCs, FX and Crypto. Firms such as market makers, high frequency trading firms, quant and program trading firms requiring ultra-low latency data delivery and distribution can further benefit from data server co-location within IPC’s Equinix FR2 data center facilities. Businesses located in other major financial data centers can access market data through IPC’s global connectivity and colocation ecosystem.

In line with its focus on simplifying global financial markets connectivity and normalizing multi-source market data, IPC customers can access market data from multiple liquidity venues through a single API, with minimal incremental charges and without the need to manage myriad Exchange Mandated Changes. Further, on-net connectivity to global exchanges can be achieved in just days, subject to exchange and trading venue approvals.

IPC’s continuously expanding, electronic trading network seamlessly connects more than 75 exchanges and trading venues with more than 7,000 diverse capital market participants and 200,000 individuals in 60 countries worldwide.

Performance engineered specifically to support electronic trading, Connexus Extranet facilitates interconnectivity and communications between capital market participants, application vendors, liquidity venues and content providers. A single API connection to the Connexus Extranet ecosystem links all connected parties together for efficient communications, transactions, and market data (and information) distribution.

John Owens, Director of Global Exchange Relationship Management, of IPC Systems said: “This addition to our expanding portfolio of market data brings significant cost savings and faster time to market for our customers. Through a single connection, firms can connect directly with more than 75 global exchanges and trading venues and hundreds of trading counterparties within our secure, compliant, and fully managed service. Alongside data management workflow efficiencies, trading participants further benefit from reducing both capital expenditures (CapEx) and operational expenditures (OpEx).”

This expanded coverage follows IPC’s recent partnership with Celoxica to deliver a low latency normalized multi-venue and asset market data service through a single API, in fully hosted CoLo or customer-specified data center locations.

About IPC

A specialist technology and service leader powering global financial markets for over 50 years, IPC Systems is at the forefront of electronic trading connectivity and state-of-the-art cloud communications, setting the standard for exceptional service, innovation, and expertise. IPC’s customer-first approach is bolstered by an extensive and diverse financial ecosystem that spans all asset classes and connects market participants anywhere in the world for enhanced communication, collaboration, and compliance. Global services include electronic trading, trading communications, and infrastructure-as-a-service solutions. IPC is ideally positioned to anticipate change and remain aligned with rapidly transforming markets, and to empower customers to adapt to change, now and in the future.  To learn more, visit www.ipc.com, explore our Insights page and follow us on LinkedIn.

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Victoria Baillie

IPC Systems

+44 7824 126054 | victoria.baillie@ipc.com

IPC’s Marie Reece wins Markets Media Women in Finance 2023 award for Excellence in Operations

We are delighted and very proud to announce that Marie Reece, VP, Customer Success and Revenue Operations, has triumphed in this year’s Markets Media Markets Choice Women in Finance US Award. In recognition of her many achievements in a 20-year career with IPC. Marie was awarded for Excellence in Operations at an awards ceremony held in New York on November 16, 2023.

Marie’s award-winning accomplishments include putting in place and leading multiple teams and processes to support business transformations, including sales data management, business process re-engineering and executive level program management, in line with IPC strategy. Most recently, her role was expanded to manage IPC’s global Customer Success Team where she leads a team dedicated to delivering value and strategy to IPC’s 7,000+ customers, driving effective customer adoption of IPC technologies to achieve desired business outcomes.

Congratulating Marie on this outstanding industry accolade, Bob Santella, CEO said: “This well-deserved award recognizes Marie’s long-standing commitment to IPC and a constant focus on delivering business and product-wide operational efficiencies.  Her undoubted talents as a business leader and operations manager have made a direct contribution to the efficient development, implementation and ongoing operational management of many significant IPC key projects and solution deliveries.”

In accepting this Award, Marie said: “I am honored and flattered to have been chosen as the winner of this prestigious industry award. When I joined IPC in 2000 as a business manager in the global sales team, I could not have imagined that I would be able to make such a direct and positive contribution to so many business areas, from business process management to revenue optimization.  While my roles may have evolved and changed, the one constant has been, and remains, a laser focus on delivering enhanced customer value and success. I hope that this award – and my own IPC ‘success story’ will serve as an inspiration to women in the financial industry.” 

About IPC

A specialist technology and service leader powering global financial markets for over 50 years, IPC Systems is at the forefront of electronic trading connectivity and state-of-the-art cloud communications, setting the standard for exceptional service, innovation, and expertise. IPC’s customer-first approach is bolstered by an extensive and diverse financial ecosystem that spans all asset classes and connects market participants anywhere in the world for enhanced communication, collaboration, and compliance. Global services include electronic trading, trading communications, and infrastructure-as-a-service solutions. IPC is ideally positioned to anticipate change and remain aligned with rapidly transforming markets, and to empower customers to adapt to change, now and in the future.  To learn more, visit www.ipc.com, explore our Insights page and follow us on LinkedIn.

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Victoria Baillie

IPC Systems

+44 7824 126054 | victoria.baillie@ipc.com

IPC launches OneView Portfolio

New York and London – November 15th, 2023 – IPC Systems, a leading provider of trading communications, electronic trading and infrastructure solutions for global financial markets, is excited to announce the launch of OneView Portfolio, a new service to integrate multiple trading workflows seamlessly with the most complex trading and cross-enterprise environments. The Portfolio comprises the new OneView Device and Workspace representing the next stage in trading technology and enabling unprecedented integration of voice with third-party applications and enterprise workflows.

IPC’s OneView Portfolio brings together a combination of IPC’s high-touch communication capabilities via an open, application-forward architecture, and a new application enabled hardware device. This further optimizes integration with enterprise collaboration tools and third-party desktop applications, providing a single, high-touch experience for users and gives organizations the ability to easily integrate, modify and add workflows.

Resolving a core challenge in the financial trading environment, the OneView Portfolio facilitates efficient management of fragmented and often disconnected trading workflows that run in and across multiple applications and platforms. With the ability to natively access and run both IPC and third-party applications, as well as seamlessly integrate with OpenFin enabled desktops, IPC’s OneView Portfolio ushers in a new generation of trading performance.

“Built on the foundation of IPC’s unrivalled expertise in trading communications, connectivity and platform integration, IPC’s OneView Portfolio provides a ‘next generation’ trading experience to traders and firms alike,” added Bob Santella, CEO, IPC Systems.

“IPC’s OneView Device and Workspace satisfy growing industry demand for a more robust, optimized and integrated voice user experience,” says Tim Carmody, CTO, IPC Systems. “The launch of the OneView Portfolio expands our open platform strategy, by focusing on one touch and single view access for IPC’s customers to a suite of IPC and third-party trading communication and application services. Along with IPC’s Touch Turret, Unigy Soft and Mobile Client and OpenFin integration, the new OneView Portfolio focuses on ease of integration within adjacent workflows, and seamless interoperability with other trading applications and operations.”

About IPC

A specialist technology and service leader powering global financial markets for over 50 years, IPC Systems is at the forefront of electronic trading connectivity and state-of-the-art cloud communications, setting the standard for exceptional service, innovation, and expertise. IPC’s customer-first approach is bolstered by an extensive and diverse financial ecosystem that spans all asset classes and connects market participants anywhere in the world for enhanced communication, collaboration, and compliance. Global services include electronic trading, trading communications, and infrastructure-as-a-service solutions. IPC is ideally positioned to anticipate change and remain aligned with rapidly transforming markets, and to empower customers to adapt to change, now and in the future.  To learn more, visit www.ipc.com, explore our Insights page and follow us on LinkedIn.

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Victoria Baillie

IPC Systems

+44 7824 126054 | victoria.baillie@ipc.com

IPC CEO Bob Santella Named ‘Ops Business Person of the Year’ in the 2023 FTF News Technology Innovation Awards

NEW YORK, 25th October 2023 – IPC is pleased to announce that CEO Bob Santella has been named the ‘Ops Business Person of the Year’ at the 2023 FTF News Technology Innovation Awards. The prestigious award recognizes his significant contributions to financial technology innovation and his unwavering dedication to IPC’s customers and partners. Under his guidance, IPC continues to invest in cutting-edge technologies, ensuring a seamless user experience and maintaining stability in the global financial markets.

As a veteran in financial and capital markets, Santella’s drive for innovation continues to fuel IPC’s efficiency, revenue growth, cost reduction, and enhanced security and regulatory compliance. From remote solutions and global connectivity to regulatory adherence, Mr. Santella’s unwavering focus remains on providing IPC customers with the access, community, and intelligence necessary to excel in the dynamic and ever-evolving financial markets.

With over three decades of experience in the financial markets, he has extensive experience across asset classes, ecosystem participants and front-, middle-, and back-office trade lifecycle workflows and systems. Mr. Santella holds a BS in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

“I am deeply honored and accept this award on behalf of IPC’s exceptional global team,” expressed Bob Santella upon receiving the recognition. “This achievement is a testament to the collective dedication and unwavering commitment of the entire IPC family to our valued customers and partners.”

About IPC

A specialist technology and service leader powering global financial markets for over 50 years, IPC Systems is at the forefront of electronic trading connectivity and state-of-the-art cloud communications, setting the standard for exceptional service, innovation, and expertise. IPC’s customer-first approach is bolstered by an extensive and diverse financial ecosystem that spans all asset classes and connects market participants anywhere in the world for enhanced communication, collaboration, and compliance. Global services include electronic trading, trading communications, and infrastructure-as-a-service solutions. IPC is ideally positioned to anticipate change and remain aligned with rapidly transforming markets, and to empower customers to adapt to change, now and in the future.  To learn more, visit www.ipc.com, explore our Insights page and follow us on LinkedIn.

About Financial Technologies Forum

Financial Technologies Forum, LLC (FTF) is the place to learn from, market to, and interact with the people and companies that are driving the post-trade processing industry. As with all information-based industries, trade processing is in a state of rapid change. New regulations, market pressures, new types of securities — not to mention the accelerating changes in technology — have made it more and more difficult to keep current, much less get ahead of the curve. FTF is committed to being a timely and reliable source for thought-leading opinions and insights, valuable news, and effective training for everyone in post-execution operations. For vendors in this industry, the forum provides an efficient, cost-effective platform for generating top-of-mind awareness among their target markets via content marketing, sponsorships, webinars, advertising, and much more.

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Victoria Baillie

IPC Systems

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Why IPC is still an Industry Leader 50 Years On!

FinTech Focus TV with Tim Carmody, CTO and EVP at IPC Systems, Inc.

Tim delves into his professional journey, emphasising his engineering roots and deep expertise in the financial markets, particularly within the capital markets sector.

We discover that IPC has built its esteemed reputation on the back of its innovative trading turret technology and has notably advanced in areas like network connectivity, electronic trading, crypto services, and ultra-low latency solutions.

Throughout the conversation, they shed light on the critical role of a CTO amidst the rapidly changing financial landscape, the profound impact of technology on capital markets, and the promising horizon of real-time transcription in trading.

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Victoria Baillie

IPC Systems

+44 7824 126054 | victoria.baillie@ipc.com