IPC’s Connexus Cloud Ecosystem Continues Expansion with Linkage to London Metal Exchange

LONDON – July 1, 2020 – IPC, a leading global provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for the global financial markets community, announced today its expansion into the London Metal Exchange (LME), the world center for industrial metals trading. IPC’s global customer ecosystem utilizes its flagship Connexus Cloud platform for trade execution, order routing, market data delivery, and accessing vital marketplaces like LME that serve as a global reference for prices.

“The LME is incredibly valuable to investors,” said Chris McQuade, Vice President Network Operations EMEA, IPC. “It’s the perfect hedging venue, and we at IPC are thrilled to be able to offer our customers instant access to what is truly one of the most important markets in the world.”

Most of the world’s non-ferrous metals business is conducted on the LME’s three trading platforms: LMEselect (electronic), the Ring (open outcry) and the 24-hour telephone market. In 2019, 176 million lots were traded at the LME equating to $13.5 trillion. Trading on the LME often exceeds world metal production by a factor of 40.

IPC’s Connexus Cloud is an unparalleled multi-cloud platform for the global financial markets, an ecosystem that interconnects more than 6,600 diverse capital market participants across 750 cities in over 60 countries. 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 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. These statements may be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “might,” “plan,” “potential,” “predict,” “should” or “will” or similar terminology. Any forward-looking statements are based on current expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections. Such forward looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond our control. Actual results may differ materially from any future results expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements.

 

IPC Wins ‘Best High Performance Network Services’ at TradingTech Insight Awards — North America for Second Year in a Row

NEW YORK, June 30, 2020 – IPC, a leading global provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for the global financial markets, today announced its Connexus Cloud platform was named the winner in the “Best High Performance Network Services” category in the prestigious TradingTech Insight Awards — North America 2020 for the second consecutive year.

“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.”

 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 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. They are all interconnected in an ecosystem of more than 6,600 capital market participants across 750 cities in over 60 countries around the world.

Produced by A-Team, the TradingTech Insight Awards — North America emphasize operational and product excellence in financial trading technology, and reflect the different challenges facing market practitioners and suppliers as they seek to develop trading and data solutions for the rapidly changing North American marketplace. The shortlist was selected by the TradingTech Advisory Board, as well as A-Team’s editorial team, with the winner chosen by the TradingTech Insight readership.

About the TradingTech Insight Awards

The TradingTech Insight Awards celebrate operational and product excellence in financial trading technology. This edition of the awards focuses particularly on technology solutions that cover North America and reflect the different challenges facing the numerous market practitioners and suppliers as they endeavor to develop trading and data solutions in the rapidly changing marketplace.

 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.

IPC Wins Two Waters Sell-Side Technology Awards, Including Prestigious ‘Best Sell-Side Technology Provider’

NEW YORK, June 29, 2020 – IPC, a leading global provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for the global financial markets, is privileged to announce today that it has won two categories in the Waters Sell Side Technology Awards 2020. IPC was named “Best Sell-Side Technology Provider,” the most prestigious category of this year’s awards. Additionally, the company’s flagship trading communications platform, Unigy, was named “Best Sell-Side Trading Communication System.”

“To be selected the Sell-Side Technology Provider of the Year out of the top and most respected names in financial technology is a tremendous honor,” said Bob Santella, Chief Executive Officer, IPC. “This award speaks to our company-wide dedication to customer satisfaction at every level. I’m also very proud that IPC’s Unigy was recognized for its vital role in financial institutions’ resilience under stressed market conditions.”

During the last year, IPC has made significant investments that have acted as “multipliers” for the firm and its solutions in the areas of most interest to the financial markets, such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing technologies. Through the digital transformation enabled by these investments, as well as IPC’s full embrace of the “subscription economy,” the firm has empowered customers and partners with a frictionless experience, remaining a beacon of progress and stability for the financial markets during challenging times.

Furthermore, Unigy, IPC’s flagship solution, has been recognized globally for years as the industry’s leading trading and communications platform. Unigy is a widely adopted, secure, compliant, end-to-end solution purpose-built to address the specific needs of the global regulated financial markets community, and has experienced robust growth in installations over the past year. Unigy seamlessly interoperates with IPC’s global financial ecosystem of over 6,600 customer locations in more than 750 cities throughout the world.

Hosted by WatersTechnology, the 8th-annual 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, headed up by Global Content Director, Victor Anderson.

“IPC translated its phenomenal run of form, from the annual Waters Rankings to the Sell-Side Technology Awards, by winning the overall Best Sell-Side Technology Provider category for 2020,” said Victor Anderson, Global Content Director, WatersTechnology. “That it also emerged victorious in the best Sell-Side Trading Communication System category, courtesy of its widely used Unigy platform, is hardly surprising, given that so much of the firm’s awards success has come on the back of its unified communication and application offering.”

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.

IPC and Digital Reasoning Announce Global Strategic Partnership to Deliver Most Advanced Voice Surveillance for Financial Services

NEW YORK and LONDON – June 23, 2020 – IPC, a leading global provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for the financial markets community, today announced a strategic partnership with Digital Reasoning, the global leader in artificial intelligence solutions that understand human communications and behaviors. The strategic partnership will allow financial institutions to analyze all of their voice surveillance data to identify regulatory risks faster so they can take action sooner.

“We are always focused on delivering extraordinary value and an exceptional experience for our customers,” said Bob Santella, Chief Executive Officer, IPC. “To that end, we are excited to partner with Digital Reasoning so we can leverage their proven, cutting-edge artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies that will enable our customers to analyze all their voice surveillance data, better protect their reputations and reduce overall risk.”

Although voice currently has the lowest surveillance coverage, it has the highest levels of regulatory violations. Poor speech recognition and low-quality alerts along with hardware issues and expensive reviews forced banks to randomly sample their voice communications. Often, as little as 5% of calls were actually monitored. As a result, there was a significant increase in risk exposure and financial institutions were not aware of activities that would subsequently result in steep fines.

With 6,600+ connected locations in over 750 cities in more than 60 countries, IPC operates one of the world’s largest financial ecosystems and cloud-enabled communities. Now, through this global strategic partnership, financial institutions everywhere will be able to monitor and analyze all of the voice data, identify risks much faster, and have the assurance that they are reducing their regulatory exposure and holding their employees to the highest standards of conduct.

“We’re absolutely thrilled to partner with an industry leader like IPC. They are recognized and respected by financial institutions around the world for their award-winning trading communications platform, and they are uniquely positioned to advance voice surveillance,” said Tim Estes, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Digital Reasoning. “The combination of IPC’s multi-cloud financial ecosystem and our intelligent software, which analyzes human communications at scale, results in financial institutions being able to cost-effectively monitor voice communications and lower their risk exposure.”

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 Reasoning

Digital Reasoning is a global leader in understanding human communications and behavior through the combination of applied AI, deep collaboration with industry experts, and a commitment to use technology for positive change. Through the combination of our trusted technology and our customers’ experience, for example, patients have a better chance of surviving, banks can ensure their employees are meeting the highest standards of conduct, and law enforcement can protect the most vulnerable citizens in our society.  For more information, go to www.digitalreasoning.com  and follow on Twitter at @dreasoning.

What’s Next For Blockchain?

First Published: Finance Monthly / June 2020

Blockchain has come a long way in the past 12 months, with an increase of blockchain start-ups and new infrastructure projects that have resulted in a spike of real-life deployments. All of this is showing blockchain’s true value to the financial industry, as well as the wider global community.

So why did blockchain adoption take so long compared to other new technologies such as cloud and AI? The slow adoption in highly regulated, complex markets such as the financial services industry shouldn’t come as a surprise. Blockchain is suited for complex, collaborative, multi-party, and critical application use-cases. This is another big reason why blockchain adoption has taken much longer than some predicted, as Rob Coole, VP of Cloud Technologies at IPC, explains below.

Next-generation blockchain

Next-generation blockchain organisations are leading the way showing how the technology can be used intelligently for the world we live in today. For example, R3, an enterprise software company, is working with an ecosystem of over 200 financial institutions, regulators, trade associations, professional services and technology companies to develop Corda, a Blockchain platform designed specifically for businesses to deliver two interoperable and fully compatible distributions of the platform that addresses issues such as transactional certainty, data privacy, and scalability limitations.

Gartner predicts that blockchain will be fully scalable by 2023. IPC’s sense of the future of blockchain, particularly in the enterprise space, is just as positive. We are seeing customers truly learning about the practical reasons to deploy, leading to more investment in time and money in blockchain.

Importance of complementary partnerships

Both application service providers and subscribers should partner with service and product providers at an operational level integration to be ahead in the blockchain curve.  Real value is provided with the integration and support from the hyper-scale platform community such as Microsoft Azure and AWS together with open industry platforms, such as IPC’s Connexus Hub, that creates end-to-end solutions that solve business problems. The importance here is APIs. We believe in a API partner integration approach which gives institutions the ability to easily access data, provide insights and inspire innovation for the market need.

Service providers, like IPC, can play a critical role here by supporting operationalisation in the systems-oriented context. Such providers are a natural connector embedding connectivity to key market participants. IPC, for example, enables access to all asset classes with over 2,000 sell-side firms, 4,000 buy-side firm and 75+ exchanges in its vast, diverse ecosystem.

What’s next?

COVID-19 has provided a ‘new normal’ that is impacting every aspect of our lives. Though this pandemic is devastating from a health, societal and economic perspective, blockchain may help the global economy rebound. The World Economic Forum believes technology such as blockchain “will benefit all countries currently impacted by COVID-19”, as it provides an efficient approach to reduce trade cost on a global scale.

Digital initiatives such as blockchain is non-partisan and open to all which allows users to act quickly at low cost with low barriers for innovation – all valuable factors in supporting the economy in an economic downturn. So, although blockchain adoption was slow in its early stage, 2020 seems to be the year blockchain comes of age.

IPC to Leverage OpenFin OS to Build Voice App Store for its 110,000+ Global User Community

NEW YORK, June 16, 2020 – IPC, a leading global provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for the global financial markets, today announced a strategic partnership with OpenFin, the operating system for the financial community. Through IPC’s “App Store” environment, traders and other regulated users will be able to:

– Leverage IPC-developed applications seamlessly and efficiently alongside proprietary, client-developed applications without the need for native integration.

– Access market data and trade lifecycle services available in IPC’s Connexus Cloud platform through any OpenFin-enabled desktop, any of IPC’s terminals or any IPC ‘soft’ trading communications solution.

– Integrate third-party applications available within the OpenFin ecosystem directly into IPC-powered trading communications workflows.

“A shared and open tech stack is critical in helping financial institutions in their digitalization journeys,” stated Jefferies Financial Group. “This partnership between IPC and OpenFin is a constructive step toward ensuring the interoperability of our applications that are revolutionizing how trading desks share data and communicate with each other.”

The partnership will be rolled out in multiple phases. The initial phase will allow all 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 within the OpenFin environment, Blotter can organically share data across multiple applications and vendor platforms to enable automation of complex trading workflows.   

“Our strategic partnership with OpenFin embraces an open platform approach and is a game-changing proposition that transforms how financial institutions consume applications, share data and optimize workflows,” said Bob Santella, Chief Executive Officer, IPC. “Our global community of 110,000+ users and 6,600+ market participants can rapidly exchange information across platforms and devices by leveraging the interoperability and technological flexibility that OpenFin brings.” 

“Financial market participants across the spectrum are racing to modernize their legacy technology and empower users with new productivity tools. Digital workspaces and contextual workflows are the future, and voice is a crucial information source within this. We are excited to enter into this partnership with IPC in order to help their large and diverse client community further unlock the power of voice,” said Mazy Dar, Chief Executive Officer, OpenFin. 

Market participants interested in speaking to IPC and OpenFin subject matter experts can schedule a meeting with us. We also encourage you to learn more at www.ipc.com and www.openfin.co. 

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 across 225,000 desktops in more than 1,500 buy-side and sell-side firms in 60+ countries. OpenFin investors include Bain Capital Ventures, Barclays, CME Ventures, DRW Venture Capital, HSBC, J.P. Morgan, NYCA Partners, Pivot Investment Partners and Wells Fargo among others. The company has offices in New York and London. https://openfin.co

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.

IPC’s Unigy Wins Infrastructure Technology Award at Singapore Business Awards 2020

SINGAPORE – June 8, 2020 – IPC, a leading global provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for the financial markets community, today announced that its Unigy solution has won the Infrastructure Technology Award for financial services in the Singapore Business Review’s Technology Excellence Awards 2020.

“We are honored that, year after year, our Unigy platform is recognized by industry leaders, customers and partners,” said Bruce Maslen, Vice President, Asia-Pacific Sales, IPC. “As the industry continues to evolve, we are continually designing new solutions and developing our offerings to meet the evolving needs of financial organizations. Unigy is a prime example of our focus on making the trading environment more efficient and productive through a unified communications platform.”

Unigy is a widely adopted, secure, compliant, end-to-end solution purpose-built to address the specific needs of the global regulated financial markets community. With more than 110,000 users, Unigy has experienced robust growth in installations over the past year and seamlessly interoperates with IPC’s Connexus financial ecosystem – consisting of over 6,600 market participant locations in 750 cities around the world – with access to other industry-leading partners and providers.

The unified communications platform provides financial organizations greater control, reliability, and a fully effective integrated communications solution with a broad array of capabilities for the surveillance, management and maintenance of a firm’s trading communications infrastructure.

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).

The Technology Excellence Awards, presented by Singapore Business Review, was held via video conferencing throughout the first and second week of June.

This year’s nominations were judged by a panel consisting of Daryl Pereira, Head of Cyber at KPMG; Cheang Wai Keat, Head of Advisory Services in Singapore and ASEAN Technology Consulting Leader at Ernst & Young; Chin Chee Choon, Advisory Leader and Assurance Director at Nexia TS; Rizwi Wun, Partner, Acting Head of Intellectual Property and Technology Practice Group at RHTLaw Asia; Carolyn Chin-Parry, Managing Director and Digital Accelerator Leader at PwC.

IPC Announces Major Expansion of Connexus Cloud in Asia Pacific

Hong Kong – May 29, 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 the Asia-Pacific region. Connexus Cloud now directly connects global financial market participants to some of Asia’s key liquidity venues such as:

  • APEX – Asia Pacific Exchange
  • ASX – Australian Securities Exchange
  • Chi-X Japan
  • Hong Kong Exchanges
  • Indonesia Stock Exchange
  • JPX – Japan Exchange Group
  • Philippines Stock Exchange
  • Singapore Exchange
  • Stock Exchange of Thailand
  • Taiwan Stock Exchange

“The strength of the Connexus Cloud financial ecosystem is not only technological but also strategic for both Asia Pacific investors and global financial market participants,” said Mark Curran, Vice President, Network Operations, Asia Pacific, IPC.”

IPC continues to expand its Asia-Pacific capital markets reach and connectivity 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. Connexus Cloud offers a purpose-built financial cloud ecosystem focused exclusively on the capital markets, along with a “follow-the-sun” customer service support linking Asia to the global financial markets. IPC recognizes the need to interconnect global financial centers for end-to-end service level consistency bringing local support in local languages to trading firms throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

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, 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 an ecosystem of more than 6,600 capital market participants across 750 cities in over 60 countries across the globe.

IPC has offices throughout the Asia Pacific region, including Beijing, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Melbourne, Mumbai, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo.

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. These statements may be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “might,” “plan,” “potential,” “predict,” “should” or “will” or similar terminology. Any forward-looking statements are based on current expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections. Such forward looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond our control. Actual results may differ materially from any future results expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements.

IPC Announces Major Expansion of Connexus Cloud by Providing Access and Hosting Capabilities to Taiwanese Financial Markets

HONG KONG, May 20, 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 the Asia-Pacific region. Connexus Cloud now directly connects global financial market participants to the Taiwanese Financial Markets.

In conjunction with global carrier partners, IPC provides colocation, connectivity, and access to market data for the global financial markets community.

In response to the implementation of continuous matching and expanded order types by the TWSE effective from 23 March 2020 and resulting client requirements, IPC is pleased to extend connectivity and hosting services to the CHT Banqiao Proximity datacenter as part of its global platform.

“The strength of the Connexus Cloud financial ecosystem is not only technological but also strategic for both Asia-Pacific investors and global financial market participants,” said Mark Curran, Vice President, Network Operations, Asia Pacific, IPC.” He added, “By providing access and hosting capabilities in the region, IPC enhances the ability of investors to successfully execute trades, source liquidity and managed risk by having reliable connectivity throughout the trade lifecycle and access to a diverse ecosystem of market participants.”

IPC continues to expand its Asia-Pacific capital markets reach and provides international connectivity to Taiwan with a managed Network-as-a-Service model supporting market participants with adaptive and on-demand connectivity crucial in the region and globally. Connexus Cloud offers a purpose-built financial cloud ecosystem focused exclusively on the capital markets, along with a “follow-the-sun” customer service support linking Asia to the global financial markets.

Connexus Cloud is an unparalleled multi-cloud platform for the global financial markets, an ecosystem that interconnects more than 6,600 diverse capital market participants across 750 cities in over 60 countries. The Connexus Cloud suite of mission-critical managed solutions includes services such as, Connexus Extranet, Connexus Ethernet, Connexus WAN, and Connexus Hub, which facilitates a flexible model for services with global availability at premier colocation facilities.

With major offices throughout Asia Pacific, including Beijing, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Melbourne, Mumbai, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo, IPC recognizes the need to interconnect global financial centers for end-to-end service level consistency bringing local support in many languages to trading firms.

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 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. These statements may be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “might,” “plan,” “potential,” “predict,” “should” or “will” or similar terminology. Any forward-looking statements are based on current expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections. Such forward looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond our control. Actual results may differ materially from any future results expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements.