First Published: Finance Derivative, June 17, 2021
The last year brought around a monumental change to the way most people work due to the impact of the pandemic, and the financial services industry was no exception. The last few months, though, have provided hope that life could very soon return to ‘normal’ with the strong vaccination efforts around the world.
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First Published: Forbes, June 9, 2021
Investor interest in digital assets — a novel asset class that covers a broad spectrum ranging from cryptocurrencies through to “stable coins” and a vast array of other types of digital “tokens” — has skyrocketed in recent months, as has their price action. The cumulative value of all cryptocurrencies grew 300% in 2020, currently totaling over $2 trillion. Bitcoin, the first and flagship digital asset reached a record high in April 2021 and exceeded $60,000 each — a marked contrast to its trading range in 2010 of sub-$0.10.
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NEW YORK – June 7, 2021 – IPC, a leading provider of secure, compliant communications and multi-cloud connectivity solutions for the global financial markets, is thrilled to announce today that Chief Operating Officer David Brown has won the prestigious “Ops Business Person of the Year” award in the 2021 FTF News Technology Innovation Awards. The FTF Awards celebrate and recognize the professionals, financial technology vendors, service providers, industry bodies, and regulators that have made significant strides and had noteworthy achievements in operational excellence. The winner of the Ops Business Person of the Year category was decided by global polling of distinguished market participants. This is the second year in a row that IPC has won the “Ops Business Person of the Year” award, with Bob Santella, Chief Executive Officer, being selected as the winner last year.
“This award speaks to the value the market places on Dave’s leadership as well as his impressive achievements and contributions to the industry,” said Bob Santella, Chief Executive Officer, IPC. “We’re deeply appreciative of Dave’s consistently outstanding performance on behalf of the firm and are leaning heavily on him as IPC continues its transformation into a next-generation financial technology leader.”
David Brown joined IPC in 2003, and as Chief Operating Officer, he is responsible for global product, research and development, operations, and support, leading significant, complex integration initiatives. Through Brown’s leadership, IPC has successfully transformed its service offerings to cater to the rapidly evolving needs of its clients, particularly after the pandemic altered the course of the financial markets and subsequent trading and connectivity needs.
“Given the industry vanguards who were also nominated for this award, it’s an incredible honor to be selected,” said David Brown upon hearing the news. “I am deeply grateful for the support from Bob Santella, the Board of Directors, as well as every one of my colleagues at IPC. I feel this win validates the company’s operational strategy and excellence in the marketplace.”
Over the course of a long and illustrious career, Brown has contributed substantially to IPC’s growth while serving in a multitude of executive management roles. Among other responsibilities, he has overseen all aspects of the Financial Markets Network business, including worldwide sales and marketing, engineering, product management, network operations, and customer support.
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. IPC brings together one of the largest and most diverse global financial ecosystems spanning all asset classes and market participants with a customer-first mentality. As the enabler of this ecosystem, IPC empowers the community to interact, transact and react to market changes and challenges. 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 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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First Published: Financial IT / May 19
The lean and agile revolution can be described as a set of principles and practices for working that aim to minimize waste while maximizing value. This enables organizations to make quality, as opposed to quantity, a priority in their products and services.
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New York – May 5, 2021 – IPC, a leading provider of secure, compliant communications and multi-cloud connectivity solutions for the global financial markets, today announced the addition of Atreyu Group (Atreyu), a technology-driven brokerage firm, to its Connexus® Cloud ecosystem.
Atreyu empowers firms to execute high-volume, low-latency trades quickly and reliably, empowering quantitative managers to develop their data-driven strategies such as algorithmic, statistical arbitrage, and machine learning trading models. The collaboration between Atreyu and IPC will offer data-driven fund managers access to Atreyu’s low-latency, institutional execution venues, as well as to IPC’s extensive network of institutional trading venues and other market participants, through Connexus Cloud. Atreyu accepts messages in FIX Protocol and Atreyu’s proprietary FLIRT API.
George Kledaras, Chief Executive Officer, Atreyu, said: “Our API driven platform is designed to enable traders to develop new machine learning and data-driven algos, enhancing the automation of trading strategies. A single low-latency connection into Atreyu reaches a dedicated community of experts in executing automated trades.” He continued, “We are delighted to be working with IPC and to be able to offer our global customers a leading-edge technology platform that is integrated with the Connexus Cloud ecosystem.”
Connexus Cloud is IPC’s flagship, award-winning multi-cloud platform for the global financial markets, an ecosystem that interconnects nearly 7,000 diverse capital market participants across 750 cities in over 60 countries. The world’s top financial institutions rely on Connexus Cloud to create order placement, trade execution, market data delivery, clearing, settlement, and accessing both trade life cycle services and influential marketplaces.
David Brown, Chief Operating Officer, IPC, commented: “Atreyu and their leading algorithmic trading solution is an important addition to our thriving community.” He added, “We are continuously looking for new opportunities to offer our clients innovative ways to provide value.”
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. 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 Atreyu
Atreyu is a leading broker-dealer and co-location, and cloud service platform for the modern data-driven fund manager. Atreyu removes the operational overhead of managing and scaling low latency electronic trading for developers, enabling traders to compute price risk and execute trades quickly and reliably. With high-speed throughput, position monitoring, risk surveillance, and competitive pricing, Atreyu provides FIX and FLIRT APIs, broker services, and trading access infrastructure so that data and quantitatively driven professionals with automated platforms can do what they do best: trade. Learn more at http://www.atreyugroup.com.
First Published: Markets Media / May 2021
IPC Agility recently won Best New Product at the 2021 Markets Choice Awards. Markets Media caught up with Tim Carmody, Chief Technology Officer at IPC, to discuss in more detail.
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LONDON – April 27, 2021 –The focus now is on global connectivity, reducing siloes and improving resilience. After a pause in the face of the first lockdown, we look at how FinTechs have engaged with their customers, and also with each other. Robin Amlot of IBS Intelligence reviews the rise of cloud-based and SaaS solutions in support of customers wherever they may be in the world, regardless of borders, with Rob Coole, VP Cloud Technologies at IPC. Listen to the podcast below:
SINGAPORE – April 27, 2021 IPC, a leading global provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for the financial markets’ community, today announced that Connexus® Infrastructure Services, Powered by Beeks (CIS) has won the Technology Excellence Award in the Singapore Business Review’s Technology Excellence Awards 2021.
CIS is a private, secure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) that utilises globally located data centres embedded in IPC’s flagship Connexus Cloud financial ecosystem. CIS offers agility, flexibility and highly specialized configurations while maintaining an exceptional level of security, assurance and efficiency.
“The partnership provides financial markets with one of the industry’s foremost managed infrastructure offerings” said, Gordon McArthur, CEO, Beeks. ”Beeks now is becoming the foundational managed hosting infrastructure service provider for CIS.”
Designed for speed, market access, connectivity, and security, CIS allows:
“Working together, IPC and Beeks have enabled financial market participants to combine IPC’s unparalleled Connexus Cloud community and global network reach with Beeks’ capabilities in on-demand managed IaaS and custom cloud solutions,” said David Brown, Chief Operating Officer, IPC.
CIS is part of IPC’s Connexus® Cloud financial ecosystem, an unparalleled multi-cloud platform for the global financial markets, an ecosystem that interconnects nearly 7,000 diverse capital market participants across 750 cities in over 60 countries.
Market participants interested in speaking to IPC’s subject matter experts can schedule a meeting with our teams here.
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.
About Beeks Financial Cloud
Build. Connect. Analyze. UK-based Beeks Financial Cloud is a leading cloud computing, connectivity, and analytics provider of Infrastructure as a Service (“IaaS”) for financial enterprises. With a network of eighteen international data centers and low-latency connectivity between sites, we support global customers at scale in the leading financial centres. We aim to reduce barriers to entry and time to market for retail and institutional traders, delivering secure infrastructure and connectivity at ultra-low latencies for our clients across flexible and minimum-risk solutions. For more information, visit: www.beeksfinancialcloud.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
NEW YORK, April 22, 2021 – IPC, a leading provider of secure, compliant communications and multi-cloud connectivity solutions for the global financial markets, today announced that its IPC Agility™ platform has won “Best New Product” in the 2021 Markets Choice Awards, the flagship awards event from one of the industry’s largest media groups.
“IPC Agility is a dynamic platform that can accelerate the development of services across IPC’s vast community of partners and users,” said Tim Carmody, Chief Technology Officer, IPC. “As an organization, we are embracing open-platform methodologies to encourage more aggressive adoption of new technologies on our worldwide ecosystem, which is exactly what modern traders need.”
Recently launched in the first quarter of 2021, IPC Agility is a transformational solution working in concert with IPC’s award-winning Unigy® & Connexus® platforms. IPC Agility is an application platform for tools and applications developed by IPC, partners, or customers. This enables digital transformation in high- and low-touch trading, accelerates innovation and technology adoption, empowers interoperability and complex collaboration, and creates efficiency at scale in a rapidly evolving market.
Trader agility is the direct result of IPC’s continued “API First” vision and philosophy in building products that drive efficiencies and enable new paradigms. Development teams will be empowered to work in parallel across containerized applications, reducing costs and shortening the application development and deployment life cycles.
“IPC Agility enables digital transformation in high- and low-touch trading and accelerates innovation in capital markets,” said Mohan Virdee, CEO and Publisher of Markets Media Group. “As markets move faster and with more volatility and complexity, institutional market participants especially need to increase efficiency and reduce risk. IPC Agility makes that happen seamlessly.”
IPC Agility builds on the success of Connexus Labs by incorporating multiple state-of-the-art technologies in order to simplify and optimize deployment of applications over the IPC trading and communications ecosystem. IPC Agility’s “Unified Services Platform,” powered by VMware Virtual Machines and Kubernetes Containers, ensures that tools and applications on IPC’s network are deployed in the most flexible and optimized manner available. For more information, please visit here.
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).
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. Actual results may differ materially from any future results expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements.
LONDON and NEW YORK, April 13, 2021 – IPC, a leading provider of secure, compliant communications and multi-cloud connectivity solutions for the global financial market, is delighted to announce that it, in conjunction with OpenFin, the operating system of finance, has won the award for “Best Alliance or Partnership” in WatersTechnology’s Sell-Side Technology Awards 2021.
Winning this award at such a prestigious program is a major achievement for both companies as it indicates the success of the partnership.
“We’re incredibly proud our strategic partnership with OpenFin has been recognized among our peers as we come together to embrace an open platform approach that completely transforms how financial institutions consume applications, share data and optimize workflows,” said Bob Santella, Chief Executive Officer, IPC.
“Given the industry’s focus on the future of work and employee enablement, our strategic partnership with IPC is more important than ever. Digital workspaces and contextual workflows are essential, and voice is a crucial information source within this. It’s fantastic that the power of our collaboration has been recognized by the industry in this way,” said Adam Toms, CEO Europe, OpenFin.
With the partnership, IPC’s global community of 200,000+ users and 7,000+ diverse capital market participants can rapidly exchange information across platforms and devices by leveraging the interoperability and technological flexibility that OpenFin brings. Through IPC’s “App Store” environment, traders and other regulated users are able to do the following:
The partnership between IPC and OpenFin is being rolled out in multiple phases. The initial phase allows users to consume Blotter—a pioneering data visualization solution that structures and digitizes voice communications sent over IPC’s innovative IQ/MAX® Touch terminal—through OpenFin. When running on OpenFin, Blotter can organically share data across multiple applications and vendor platforms, enabling the automation of complex trading workflows.
“As end users are demanding more flexibility and interoperability, the judges were most impressed by what IPC is doing with the pairing of its Connexus Cloud offering and the Unigy communication and application platform, as well as its partnership with OpenFin,” 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 journalists.
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 OpenFin
Move Fast. Break Nothing. OpenFin is the financial industry’s operating system, enabling rapid and secure deployment, native experience and desktop interoperability. Used by the largest industry players through to the newest of FinTech innovators, OpenFin deploys more than 1,200 desktop applications to more than 1,500 buy-side and sell-side firms. OpenFin investors include Bain Capital Ventures, Barclays, DRW Venture Capital, HSBC, J.P. Morgan, NYCA Partners, Pivot Investment Partners, Standard Chartered and Wells Fargo Strategic Capital among others. The company is based in New York with offices in London and presence in Hong Kong. For more information, visit https://openfin.co
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