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IPC, a leading provider of secure, compliant communications and multi-cloud connectivity solutions for global financial markets, and Newsquawk, the market-leading multi-asset audio market data service, have partnered to launch Connexus® Broadcast.

Integrated into IPC’s world class financial markets Connexus® Cloud, Connexus Broadcast leverages Newsquawk’s team of analysts that use proprietary smart search technology to monitor and report data and news from hundreds of mainstream and social media sources. These filtered audio market data feeds are readily available as a real-time stream to any of the over 7,000 financial market participants in IPC’s diverse global ecosystem. 

Connexus Broadcast is delivered via IPC’s Connexus Voice, a leading platform-agnostic voice trading ecosystem and available to over 200,000 professional traders. Institutional traders benefit from access to ‘instant’ audio news broadcasts capturing market intelligence from multiple sources, including social media feeds they might otherwise be restricted from accessing within internal infrastructures. Delivered through an institution’s existing IPC connectivity, Connexus Broadcast provides users with immediate, cost-effective access to wide and deep market-moving news that goes beyond what is available from traditional news service providers.

Expanding the range of audio market data sources and cutting delivery times increases trading and market opportunities while supporting more effective risk mitigation. Proprietary traders benefit from access to institutional grade data and efficient access to market-wide audio market data at a much lower price point and contractual commitment than traditional global publishers.

Commenting on the launch of Connexus Broadcast, Bob Santella, IPC’s Chief Executive Officer, said: “Internal technical and security restrictions on accessing social media and information platforms cause institutional traders to miss out on a huge volume of market-moving data since they must rely heavily on traditional – and expensive – financial news publishers. Similarly, buy-side traders have usually been unable to access the quantity and quality of news available to institutional counterparts. By bringing together IPC’s industry-leading cloud technology with multi-asset, multi-source audio market data and analysis, delivered directly to the trading floor, Connexus Broadcast significantly enhances trading opportunities for the global trading community.”

Mehul Patel, Newsquawk CEO, added: “We are delighted to be partnering with IPC to bring our Newsquawk audio news directly and efficiently to trading desks. Connexus Broadcast provides real-time access to trading environments without the network security constraints associated typically with new technical feeds and, at the same time, adds significant value to a service that is already benefiting traders.”

The new Connexus Broadcast service supports traders (real-time, customized and filtered news supporting position-taking), asset managers (continuous macroeconomic and geopolitical coverage informing investment decisions), brokers (better understanding of clients’ decision influencers and market-moving events) and risk and compliance teams (continuous, multi-asset data and analysis for position-keeping and P&L management).

About Newsquawk

Newsquawk’s audio service makes traders more profitable by delivering market-moving news before underlying asset prices react. Newsquawk’s expert analysts filter news from hundreds of traditional media outlets as well as all social media platforms, only broadcasting news likely to impact asset prices. Traders around the world trust Newsquawk to monitor news knowing that all they need to do is listen to the squawk service or read the headline feed to find new trading opportunities and better manage risk.

About IPC

IPC is a technology and service leader powering global financial markets. We help clients anticipate change and solve problems, setting the standard with industry expertise, exceptional service and comprehensive technology. With a customer-first mentality, IPC brings together one of the largest and most diverse global financial ecosystems spanning all asset classes and market participants. As the enabler of this ecosystem, IPC empowers the community to interact, transact and react to market changes and challenges, and we collaborate with our customers to help make them secure, productive, compliant and connected.

Certain statements contained in this press release may be forward-looking statements. Any forwardlooking statements are based on current expectations, assumptions, estimates, and projections and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. Therefore, actual results may differ materially from future results expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements.

IPC, a leading provider of secure, compliant communications and multi-cloud connectivity solutions for the global financial markets and trading community, today announced that the firm has won the “Best Connectivity for Financial Services Award” for Connexus Cloud at the Singapore Business Review Technology Excellence Awards 2022.

Connexus Cloud is a multi-cloud platform ecosystem that interconnects more than 7,000 diverse capital market participants across 750 cities in over 60 countries, including buy-side and sell-side firms, trading platforms, market centers, liquidity venues, interdealer brokers, application and market data providers, and clearing/settlement services.

Over the last two years, organizations have been increasingly compelled to be more flexible and to a certain degree, deconstructed; hence market participants can’t afford to have connectivity issues interfering with generating alpha, sourcing liquidity, or mitigating risk. With this objective in mind, the IPC Connexus Cloud platform for data, voice, and enterprise connectivity, has continued to empower firms to trade faster, become more agile, and enhance competitive advantages during this tumultuous time.

IPC has continued to strengthen the Connexus Cloud ecosystem with impactful innovations. In November 2021, IPC launched Connexus Crypto, an arbitrage-accelerating solution, enabling investors to simultaneously buy and sell cryptocurrency in different markets, and take advantage of price differences.

“Digital transformation is a chief concern for IPC’s large community of global financial institutions, which is why we’ve always endeavored to offer the latest innovations, including access to cryptocurrencies,” said Richard Balmer, Director of Network Product Strategy, IPC.  “Through IPC’s flagship Connexus Cloud platform, institutional investors can access real-time data and transact on a wide array of both traditional and crypto asset classes. We are extremely honored for Connexus Cloud to be recognized by our industry leaders, customers, and partners.”

The Singapore Business Review Technology Excellence Awards is the most prestigious awards programme for technological innovations, recognizing exceptional companies in Singapore that are riding the digital disruption wave and leading the technological revolution and digital journeys of their respective industries.

 

IPC, a leading provider of secure, compliant communications and multi-cloud connectivity solutions for the global financial markets, today announced that its Connexus Cloud platform has won “Best In Cloud” in the 2022 Markets Choice Awards (MCAs). The 2022 MCA is one of the industry’s premier events for identifying and recognizing outstanding companies and innovation in the global financial markets. The winner of the “Best in Cloud” category was decided by polling market participants, interviewing distinguished industry leaders, and consulting with the MCA Advisory Board.

“It is exciting to see IPC’s strategic vision and continuous investments in Connexus Cloud recognized by the industry,” said Bob Santella, Chief Executive Officer, IPC. “Connexus Cloud allows firms anywhere in the world to trade faster and achieve greater agility, productivity and efficiency, providing our customers with a tremendous competitive advantage.”

“IPC continues to maintain its status as an industry leader, evidenced by its success in the Markets Choice Awards year after year,” said Mohan Virdee, CEO and Publisher of Markets Media Group. “This award is a representation of the company’s continued emphasis on innovation and service to financial market participants worldwide.”

Connexus Cloud is IPC’s flagship, award-winning multi-cloud platform for the global financial markets, an ecosystem that interconnects over 7,000 diverse capital market participants across 750 cities in more than 60 countries. The world’s top financial institutions rely on Connexus Cloud for order creation, order placement, trade execution, market data delivery, clearing, settlement, and accessing both trade life cycle services and influential marketplaces. Market participants interested in speaking to IPC subject matter experts about Connexus Cloud can schedule a meeting with us. We also encourage you to learn more at www.ipc.com.

About IPC

IPC is a technology and service leader powering the global financial markets. We help clients anticipate change and solve problems, setting the standard with industry expertise, exceptional service, and comprehensive technology. With a customer-first mentality, IPC brings together one of the largest and most diverse global financial ecosystems spanning asset classes and market participants. As the enabler of this ecosystem, IPC empowers the community to interact, transact and react to market changes and challenges. In addition, we collaborate with our customers to help make them secure, productive, compliant and connected. Visit ipc.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter (@IPC_Systems_Inc).

About Markets Media Group

Markets Media Group was founded in 2007 with one mission: to be the pre-eminent provider of news and information about trading and technology in capital markets. The coverage remit spans equities, fixed income, and FX, and covers buy-side investment managers, sell-side broker-dealers, exchanges, trading platforms, technology providers, and regulators. MMG is the publisher of Markets Media, Traders Magazine, GlobalTrading, IntelAlley, Best Execution and The DESK as well as producer of the Markets Choice Awards, Women in Finance Awards and Women Crush Finance.

Certain statements contained in this press release may be forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statements are based on current expectations, assumptions, estimates, and projections and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. Therefore, actual results may differ materially from future results expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements.

 

IPC, a leading provider of secure, compliant communications and multi-cloud connectivity solutions for the global financial markets and trading community, today announced that the firm has won the Best Sell-Side Trading Communications System’ for its Unigy™ platform in WatersTechnology’s Sell-Side Technology Awards 2022.

IPC’s flagship solution, Unigy, has been recognized globally as the industry’s leading trading and communications platform. With more than 110,000 users, it is a widely adopted, secure, compliant, end-to-end solution that is purpose-built to address the specific needs of the global regulated financial markets community. Unigy has proven its reliability and value consistently over the past several years. It is an unparalleled, unified communications-based platform explicitly designed to make the entire trading environment more productive, intelligent, and efficient.

This year, amid the global pandemic and its lasting impact, financial services firms went through an unprecedented transformation. IPC’s Unigy platform played a critical role in supporting organizations during this tumultuous time. Unigy’s primary purpose is to provide continuity of back office, middle office, and other regulated users’ communications across a unified platform.

With access to industry-leading partners and providers, the unified communications platform offers financial organizations greater control, reliability, and a highly effective integrated communications solution. In addition, Unigy offers a broad array of capabilities necessary for the surveillance, management, and maintenance of a firm’s trading communications infrastructure.

“At IPC, we strive to make the sell-side trading environment efficient and productive for market participants,” said Bob Santella, Chief Executive Officer, IPC. “This is why we are honored to receive this prestigious award that reflects IPC’s commitment to providing state-of-the-art solutions to empower firms to execute dynamic trading strategies and generate alpha.”

“As end-users continue to demand more flexibility and interoperability, IPC’s flagship Unigy platform delivers. The solution proves itself as one of the most innovative industry technologies. We congratulate the entire IPC team on this impressive achievement,” said Anthony Malakian, Editor-in-Chief, WatersTechnology Group.

Hosted by WatersTechnology, the Sell-Side Technology awards recognize the leading technologies and third-party vendors in their area of expertise through an auditable and transparent methodology developed and managed by WatersTechnology’s senior journalist.

About IPC

IPC is a technology and service leader powering the global financial markets. We help clients anticipate change and solve problems, setting the standard with industry expertise, exceptional service and comprehensive technology. With a customer-first mentality, IPC brings together one of the largest and most diverse global financial ecosystems spanning all asset classes and market participants. As the enabler of this ecosystem, IPC empowers the community to interact, transact and react to market changes and challenges, and we collaborate with our customers to help make them secure, productive, compliant, and connected. Visit ipc.com and follow us on Linkedin and Twitter (@IPC_Systems_Inc).

 

IPC, a leading provider of secure, compliant communications and multi-cloud connectivity solutions for the global financial markets, announced today an expansion of its electronic trading portfolio with the launch of Connexus ALPHA. This leading-edge solution enables hedge funds, funds of funds, proprietary trading firms, market makers, broker/dealers and other market participants to connect to key global liquidity venues through ultra-low latency optimized point-to-point optical fiber connections. Market participants that leverage Connexus ALPHA can gain a valuable speed advantage in executing complex trading strategies while reducing the cost of trades.

Connexus ALPHA is a high-performance cloud edge solution that is deeply integrated with the Connexus® Cloud platform, IPC’s flagship, award-winning multi-cloud platform for the global financial markets, an ecosystem that interconnects 7,000 diverse capital market participants across 750 cities in over 60 countries.

Connexus ALPHA launches as firms accelerate on executing sophisticated ever-changing cross-asset class trading strategies in a never-ending effort to “beat the market” and achieve superior returns. With the speed-to-market benefits of Connexus ALPHA as part of the Connexus Cloud ecosystem, IPC continues to grow its portfolio and market leadership position in enabling firms to achieve their trading goals and objectives.

“The launch of Connexus ALPHA reinforces our leadership position in ensuring market participants can trade seamlessly across the global financial markets with a state-of-the-art solution,” said Bob Santella, IPC’s Chief Executive Officer. “In the fast-paced world of electronic trading, having the lowest possible latency to connect to key liquidity venues is a must. With firms having to come up with ever more sophisticated strategies to execute dynamic trading strategies, it is imperative they have world-class infrastructure that provides a competitive edge.”

Connexus ALPHA is set to be rolled out globally starting in April 2022. It will provide ultra-low latency connectivity:

• In the North American mesh spanning New York, New Jersey equity triangle, Chicago and Toronto
• For accessing major liquidity venues in London, Frankfurt and other key continental European locations
• Between the global financial quadrilateral of New York, London, Tokyo and Singapore
• Between key Asia-Pacific liquidity venues in Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo

Market participants interested in speaking to IPC’s subject matter experts about Connexus ALPHA can schedule a meeting with us here.

About IPC

IPC is a technology and service leader powering the global financial markets. With a customer-first mentality, IPC brings together one of the largest and most diverse global financial ecosystems spanning all asset classes and market participants. As the enabler of this ecosystem, IPC empowers the community to interact, transact and react to market changes and challenges, and we collaborate with our customers to help make them secure, productive, compliant and connected. Visit www.ipc.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter (@IPC_Systems_Inc).

IPC, a leading provider of secure, compliant communications and multi-cloud connectivity solutions for the global financial markets and trading community, today announced that its Connexus® Cloud solution has been selected as the winner of the “Best Cryptocurrency Information Source” award in the sixth annual FinTech Breakthrough Awards for the third consecutive year.

IPC sits at the hub of the worldwide financial markets through the Connexus Cloud ecosystem, an unparalleled trading network connected to more than 7,000 capital market participants across 750 cities in 60 countries worldwide. Sell-side firms, buy-side firms, inter-dealer brokers, liquidity venues, energy firms, trade lifecycle providers, and market-data vendors, as well as clearing and settlement firms, have relied on the Connexus Cloud platform from IPC for trade execution, order routing, market data delivery, and more for traditional assets. After having received the “Best Cryptocurrency Information Source” for the two prior years running, IPC initiated its most significant expansion yet for cryptocurrency trading: Connexus® Crypto. Connexus Crypto is a market-leading arbitrage solution for cryptocurrency trading powered by the industry-leading Connexus Cloud platform. The result of those efforts is a third consecutive “Best Cryptocurrency Information Source” award.

“Cryptocurrency trading is accelerating quickly, with institutional investors increasingly prioritizing the trading of digital assets. In this day and age, cryptocurrency markets are an integral step in portfolio diversification and the formulation of viable investment strategies,” said James Johnson, Managing Director, FinTech Breakthrough. “IPC’s Connexus Cloud solution with its Connexus Crypto represents a significant ’breakthrough’ solution that empowers market participants to trade successfully in this new world of diversified global financial markets. We extend our sincerest of congratulations to IPC for taking home this 2022 FinTech Breakthrough Award.”

“On behalf of the entire IPC team, I am thrilled to accept this award for the third year running. To be recognized by FinTech Breakthrough in this way reflects both our unified and creative company culture as well as our steadfast commitment to innovative global financial market solutions,” said Bob Santella, CEO of IPC. “IPC is proud to be enabling successful trading in the global cryptocurrency markets. Being recognized in this prestigious awards program for the third year in a row speaks volumes to our vision, efforts, and persistent dedication to our network of valued clients and partners.”

The FinTech Breakthrough Awards is the premier awards program recognizing FinTech innovators, leaders and visionaries from around the world in a range of categories, including Digital Banking, Personal Finance, Lending, Payments, Investments, RegTech, InsurTech and many more. The 2022 FinTech Breakthrough Award program attracted more than 3,950 nominations from across the globe.

 

About IPC

IPC is a technology and service leader powering the global financial markets. We help clients anticipate change and solve problems, setting the standard with industry expertise, exceptional service and comprehensive technology. With a customer-first mentality, IPC brings together one of the largest and most diverse global financial ecosystems spanning all asset classes and market participants. As the enabler of this ecosystem, IPC empowers the community to interact, transact and react to market changes and challenges, and we collaborate with our customers to help make them secure, productive, compliant, and connected. Visit ipc.com and follow us on Linkedin and Twitter (@IPC_Systems_Inc).

About FinTech Breakthrough

Part of Tech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence and recognition platform for technology innovation and leadership around the globe, the FinTech Breakthrough Awards program is devoted to honoring excellence in Financial Technologies and Services companies and products. The FinTech Breakthrough Awards provide public recognition for the achievements of FinTech companies and products in categories including Payments, Personal Finance, Wealth Management, Fraud Protection, Banking, Lending, RegTech, InsurTech and more. For more information visit FinTechBreakthrough.com.