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NEW YORK, February 16, 2021 – Institutional investors around the world are turning to IPC, a leading provider of secure, compliant communications and multi-cloud connectivity solutions for the global financial markets, to capitalize on the growing momentum behind cryptocurrencies. Several industry developments, from Bitcoin’s recent record high, to favorable policy trends, have created a surge in institutional interest on IPC’s Connexus® Cloud platform.

Connexus Cloud is an unparalleled multi-cloud platform for the global financial markets, an ecosystem that interconnects more than 7,000 diverse capital market participants across 750 cities in over 60 countries. Its suite of mission-critical managed solutions includes a portfolio of products for trading digital assets like security tokens and cryptocurrencies, for which Connexus Cloud won the 2020 FinTech Breakthrough Award for “Best Cryptocurrency Information Source.” Among other integrations, Connexus Cloud users can access:

• CME CF Cryptocurrency Pricing Products: CME’s CF Bitcoin Reference Rate and Real-Time Index, CME Ether futures real-time market data.
• Gemini: Gemini provides a crypto native finance platform which includes exchange and custodian solutions for the institutional investor.
• ICE Data Services’ Cryptocurrency Data Feed: The ICE Cryptocurrency Data Feed streams real-time and historical data for many actively traded digital currencies globally.
• LMAX Digital: LMAX Digital, the institutional crypto currency exchange, provides physical trading and custodial services.
• Omniex: Institutional investors can access many cryptocurrency surveillance and trading tools through Omniex, an institutionally focused investment and trading platform for digital assets.

Originally perceived as an alternative to traditional financial instruments, cryptocurrencies and security tokens are increasingly seen as sophisticated asset classes similar to private equity or venture capital. Investors and policymakers are incorporating digital assets into their strategic planning; for example, the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency recently approved the use of stablecoins for the settlement of financial transactions by regulated banks. These developments have formed a virtuous feedback loop accessible on IPC’s institutional-grade network. In addition, IPC has also partnered with enterprise blockchain software firm R3 to support the Corda blockchain networks through Connexus Cloud.

“The strength of Connexus Cloud’s security protocols, combined with the expanse and composition of our institutional community of global financial market participants, enables a ground-breaking ecosystem for digital asset trading,” said Mike Smith, Director, Global Exchange Relations Management, IPC.

 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.

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NEW YORK, February 4, 2021 – IPC, a leading provider of secure, compliant communications and multi-cloud connectivity solutions for the global financial markets, today launched its next-generation IPC Portal, a consolidated, integrated hub to access its award-winning Connexus Cloud  and Unigy  platforms. The Portal marks an important step in IPC’s company-wide, multi-year digital transformation strategy and will be the basis for all future product innovation. It reaffirms IPC’s commitment to fostering greater collaboration with partners and customers to significantly enhance their productivity.

“The IPC Portal provides seamless access to our best-in-class global financial cloud ecosystem,” said David Brown, Chief Operating Officer, IPC. “Fostering collaboration through compelling digital transformation initiatives like the Portal is critical for customer success.”

The IPC Portal is an innovative, unified resource that removes complexity for customers and partners utilizing the flagship Connexus Cloud and Unigy solutions. Powered by advanced analytics, the modernized IPC Portal will serve as a one-stop-shop to help customers and partners and is integral to all future product and service enhancement efforts.

Among many other dynamic features, the Portal will provide:

• • Integration with existing customer service solutions
  • Automated Unigy health checks
  • Connexus Voice global inventory management
  • Call detail records
  • Contact management
  • In-depth reporting and insights, such as user heat maps

Connexus Cloud is an unparalleled multi-cloud platform for the global financial markets, an ecosystem that interconnects more than 7,000 diverse capital market participants across 750 cities in over 60 countries. The Connexus Cloud suite of mission-critical managed solutions includes a portfolio of products, such as Connexus Extranet, Connexus Ethernet, Connexus WAN, and Connexus Hub, which facilitate a flexible model for services with global availability at premier colocation facilities. The world’s top financial institutions rely on Connexus Cloud for fast, reliable connectivity to all aspects of the trade lifecycle – order creation, order placement, trade execution, clearing, settlement, reporting, and market data delivery.

The Unigy platform utilizes the latest trading communications technologies and a services-oriented architecture to bring flexibility and scalability to financial organizations. The unified communications platform makes the entire trading environment more productive, intelligent, and efficient.

“The IPC Portal represents a momentous step forward in the digital transformation roadmap we’ve developed after extensive customer advisory sessions,” said Robert Coole, VP, Cloud Technologies, IPC, whose team led this groundbreaking initiative. “It is a holistic entry point to our industry-leading network and services interconnecting the global financial community.”

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.

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.

NEW YORK, December 7, 2020 – IPC, a leading global provider of secure, compliant communications and highly secure cloud solutions for the global financial markets, today announced that its Unigy platform has won the 2020 American Financial Technology Awards (AFTAs) “Best Communication Infrastructure Provider.” This recognition is bestowed to the firm that provides the most innovative communications infrastructure to the capital markets.

“Unigy is a prime example of IPC’s focus on making the trading environment more efficient and productive through a unified communications solution,” said Bob Santella, Chief Executive Officer, IPC. “The 2020 Waters AFTAs’ recognition of Unigy is testament to its strength in meeting the mission-critical communications and collaboration needs of financial firms around the world.”

IPC’s Unigy utilizes the latest trading communications technologies and a services-oriented architecture to bring flexibility and scalability to financial organizations. The unified communications platform is designed specifically to make the entire trading environment more productive, intelligent and efficient. Unigy enables financial organizations to enhance IPC applications or develop their own to work on the platform, giving them greater control through a fully integrated communications solution.

“IPC has once again shown itself to be one of the industry’s leading providers of communications infrastructure by emerging top in the Best Communication Infrastructure Provider category in this year’s American Financial Technology Awards, thanks to its flagship Unigy platform,” said Victor Anderson, Global Content Director, WatersTechnology.

Hosted by Waters magazine and WatersTechnology.com, the AFTAs recognize excellence in the deployment and management of financial technology within the asset management and investment banking communities.

 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 WatersTechnology

Each month, Waters reports and analyzes the practical implementation of financial technology in the wholesale banking and securities industries. Since its launch in 1993, financial IT professionals worldwide have relied on the magazine for its focused, in-depth coverage of financial market data and technology as well as the human issues of talent management, staff retention and compensation within the financial services community. With more than 10,000 subscribers, Waters readers enjoy the insights of CIOs and CTOs from the global capital markets. Waters is published by Incisive Media Plc. For more information, please visit www.watersonline.com and www.incisivemedia.com.

Certain statements contained in this press release may be forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statements are based on current expectations, assumptions, estimates and projection 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, October 7, 2020 – IPC – a leading global provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for the global financial markets is delighted to announce a strategic partnership with Digital Debt Capital Markets Ltd (“DDCM or agora”). DDCM is a UK based fintech company, providing technology to enhance, upgrade and improve communication and processes from a bond’s issuance to repayment at its term. DDCM is developing its agoraSoftware solution to digitise the end-to-end life cycle of a bond. This technology will revolutionise the experience of issuers, investment banks and downstream service providers in the international bond markets.

agoraSoftware utilises market leading Distributed Ledger Technology (R3’s Corda Enterprise) paving the way for digital securities that comply with existing regulations, enhance information sharing and eliminate costly reconciliations whilst maintaining privacy. This technology revolutionises and enhances the entire life cycle of bonds where processes have not fundamentally changed for decades. It aims to connect all major bond market participants from issuers, investment banks, issuing and paying agents and other service providers to a single golden source of critical bond information avoiding the need for the manual and duplicative input by each party to its own data silo. This information is digitally signed and made available as structured data in a permissioned and controlled manner to participants throughout the life cycle of a bond, eliminating the need for continuous reconciliation. By operating in a digital environment from inception, market participants will also benefit from the ability to embed and utilise “smart contracts” to govern and manage lifecycle functions in alignment with the natural language legal agreements, which define and govern their security operations.

“Our latest strategic partnership with agora delivers customers with direct access to their revolutionary, cutting-edge software which will be delivered via IPC’s world-class infrastructure,” says Robert Coole, Vice President Cloud Technologies, IPC. “By leveraging our trusted Connexus Cloud financial ecosystem, Agora’s innovative end-to-end solution is instantly accessible in our marketplace to a global community of over 110,000 users and nearly 7,000 market participants.”

Charlie Berman, co-founder and CEO of DDCM said: “We are delighted to have partnered with IPC. It has one of the largest and most secure communities of financial market participants in the bond markets and is used widely by precisely the organisations and institutions for whom the software has been designed. This relationship provides our first clients with a seamless and trusted opportunity to collaborate, use and test the agoraSoftware and is a first important step in the evolution of the agoraSmartbond.”

Tony Cleverly, Chief Technology Officer at DDCM said: “This important partnership with IPC has already allowed us to onboard clients in an effective and controlled environment. The support of IPC’s Connexus Labs has assisted us to develop, test and install our solutions for our bond market clients in a secure ‘cloud based’ environment. This meant we have been able to work with clients without the need for bespoke infrastructure and connectivity speeding up our development and testing of our bond market solutions.”

Market participants interested in speaking to IPC and Agora subject matter experts can schedule a meeting with us. We also encourage you to learn more at www.ipc.com and www.agoradcm.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 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 Digital Debt Capital Markets Ltd

DDCM is a UK based techfin company, providing technology to enhance, upgrade and improve communication and processes from a bond’s issuance to repayment at its term. It is developing software to enable, for the first time, truly end-to-end digital support for the entire life cycle of a bond through the deployment of its agoraSoftware. This technology will enhance, upgrade and improve communication and processes from a bond’s issuance to repayment at its term. The agora software will be used by issuers, arrangers and multiple service providers to the international bond markets, from the pre-mandate stage, during execution, pricing and primary settlement and throughout the secondary life of the security until its final redemption.

Certain statements contained in this press release may be forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statements are based on current expectations, assumptions, estimates and projection 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.

 

New York – September 30, 2020 – IPC, a leading global provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for the financial markets community, today announces a major regional expansion of its Connexus Cloud platform in Latin America. IPC is now directly connected to some of the region’s largest exchanges and regulatory bodies, such as:

• B3
• Bolsa Mexicana de Valores (The Mexican Stock Exchange)
• Bolsa de Santiago
• Bolsa de Valores de Colombia
• Bolsa de Valores de Lima
• BYMA, Bolsas y Mercados Argentinos
• Matba Rofex

 “IPC’s network ecosystem-as-a-service was strategically designed to address not only our clients’ technical requirements, but their regulatory and compliance needs as well,” said Jeffrey Britell, Senior Vice President, Global Network Services, IPC. “The breadth of our solutions is particularly important in regions like Latin America.”

IPC continues to expand their LATAM capital markets with a managed Network-as-a-Service model presenting market participants with adaptive and on-demand connectivity crucial to the communication needs of trading firms in the region and globally. Offering a purpose-built network, focused exclusively on the capital markets, along with global customer service support linking LATAM to the rest of the financial ecosystem. IPC recognizes the need to interconnect global financial centers for end-to-end service level consistency bringing support to trading firms throughout the LATAM region connecting on a global scale.

IPC’s Connexus Cloud is an unparalleled private, secure cloud solution for the global financial markets. By providing and integrating private and hybrid clouds, and enabling secure access to over 550 public clouds.

Connexus Cloud empowers the use of cloud for secure, guaranteed, high-performance data and voice communications. This includes optimized deliveries for blockchain, market data and transactions. The Connexus Cloud multi-cloud platform links together the global capital markets with sell-side and buy-side firms, inter-dealer brokers, liquidity venues, energy firms, trade lifecycle providers, and market-data vendors as well as clearing and settlement firms. They are interconnected in a financial cloud ecosystem of nearly 7000 capital market participants across 750 cities in over 60 countries across the globe.

With a diverse community of market participants across asset classes IPC offers an extensive buy-side ecosystem comprising pension funds, insurance companies, corporate treasuries, mutual funds, hedge funds and private equity firms. The sell-side community includes leading investment banks, brokers, dealers, inter-dealer brokers, prime of prime brokerages and regional banks. Along with a range of liquidity venues, such as traditional exchanges, ATS’s, ECNs, MTFs and dark pools. Further asset classes cover market data vendors, providers of trade lifecycle services, clearing and settlement services.

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).

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NEW YORK, September 22, 2020 – IPC, a leading global provider of secure, compliant communications and highly secure cloud solutions for the global financial markets, is proud to announce the expansion of its strategic relationship with Beeks Financial Cloud, an industry-leading provider of managed infrastructure solutions that specializes in low-latency trading environments.

The partnering of IPC and Beeks provides the financial markets with one of the industry’s foremost managed infrastructure offerings. By strengthening and expanding the strategic partnership, IPC continues to leverage a successful, proven model, with Beeks now becoming the foundational managed hosting infrastructure service provider for IPC’s Connexus Infrastructure Services, Powered by Beeks. This enhanced joint offering brings into the market an array of complex Beeks solutions, which includes infrastructure management across physical and virtual servers, firewalls and storage, combining with IPC’s award-winning Connexus Cloud product portfolio and IPC’s diverse worldwide ecosystem. Together, IPC and Beeks are delivering end-to-end market solutions that syndicate market data and trade lifecycle services together with a powerful, purpose-built trading infrastructure in key global market center data centers.

“When we combine the power of IPC’s Connexus Cloud with the Beeks private cloud platform, we jointly ensure that our customers have an end-to-end trading solution that maximizes the best parts of both organizations and delivers a cutting-edge platform,” said Bob Santella, Chief Executive Officer, IPC.

Connexus Infrastructure Services, Powered by Beeks, enables:

• On demand computing power across multiple data centers around the world
• Design options including private clouds that scale in size and on demand
• Access to ultra-low latency trading environments
• Bare metal server and virtual options to meet stringent trading needs
• Defense in Depth (DiD) approach to security, tailored to the risk profile of each customer
• The IPC community to leverage Beeks Analytics, the enhanced performance monitoring ability from the recent Beeks acquisition of Velocimetrics.

“Beeks and IPC are nimble organizations who pride ourselves on our abilities to service the needs of our customers with both pre-defined products as well as custom-designed bespoke solutions,” said Gordon McArthur, CEO, Beeks. “We’re looking forward to our combined capabilities and powerful trading infrastructure making a difference in the daily business operations of our customers.”

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 Beeks Financial Cloud

Build. Connect. Analyse. 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 datacentres 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 @BeeksFinCloud

Certain statements contained in this press release may be forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statements are based on current expectations, assumptions, estimates and projection 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, September 8, 2020 – IPC, a leading global provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for the global financial markets, is delighted to announce that our flagship Unigy® platform has won the “Best Infrastructure Provider” award in Hedge Fund Magazine’s (HFM) European Technology Awards 2020.

“At IPC, we are always focused on creating a more efficient and productive trading environment through our unified communications solution, Unigy,” said Bob Santella, Chief Executive Officer, IPC. “We are honoured to receive further recognition for our industry-leading platform from leading hedge fund CTOs and technology leaders.”

Santella added: “As the industry continues to evolve and adapt to changes in the market, IPC continually strives to design new solutions and develop our offerings to meet the needs of global financial market participants.”

Unigy has consistently been recognized globally as the industry’s leading trading communications platform over the years. 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 experienced robust growth in installations over the past year and seamlessly interoperates with IPC’s global financial cloud ecosystem of nearly 7,000 customer locations in more than 750 cities around the world.

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

The HFM awards give recognition and celebrates IT, software vendors and service providers in the hedge fund industry that have demonstrated excellent service and innovative product development over the last year. The award was formally announced at a virtual awards ceremony for senior technology professionals within European hedge funds on September 3, 2020 as part of the virtual HFM European Technology Forum.

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 (@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 projection 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.