Effectively addressing the Communications and Connectivity Challenges of Financial Market participants

By Tim Carmody VP, Network Product and Engineering at IPC for e-Forex Magazine – first published March 2017

Connectivity is critical for capital market participants – but that’s nothing new. The financial markets industry has been talking about the importance of connectivity for data and voice communications for quite some time. What is new is that financial firms worldwide are increasingly being encouraged to address their communications not only to meet upcoming regulations, such as MiFID II, but also to adopt new paradigms, and get closer to clients, so that they can source liquidity more easily.

COMMUNICATION CHALLENGES

Given today’s volatile markets, investment managers and brokers are continually faced with a number of complex trading challenges. Indeed, financial organisations are under growing pressure to support collaboration across the enterprise, seamlessly share corporate resources and applications, enable best trade execution and securely connect all of their multiple locations around the globe. Conquering these challenges is essential for firms needing to remain competitive, however, cost, a lack of resources and performance issues can often stand in the way.

To connect multiple office locations and distributed services firms must ensure they have a private and secure infrastructure that enables mission-critical enterprise connectivity for data, voice and video applications. More and more institutions are migrating their on-premise solutions to cloud-based models. Scalable and adaptable, the cloud has the advantage of being able to power new workfl ows, meet stricter regulatory and security requirements, and provide the fl exibility needed to integrate new innovations and applications when necessary. To do so, cloud-based services and distributed trading execution, embedded at liquidity centers, require coherent, secure connectivity.

CLOCK SYNCHRONISATION AND TIME-KEEPING

Ensuring accurate and secure clock synchronisation and time-stamping is also a major challenge for financial firms. Indeed, with the regulatory environment becoming increasingly stringent, the need for pre- and post-trade transparency is growing with each passing year. Any firm that trades in the United States or European Union needs reliable, synchronised clock feeds to connect to their trading applications and order management systems.

Time precision and stamping are at the heart of regulatory compliance with MiFID II RTS-25 and FINRA Rule 4590, placing strict requirements on the granularity of timestamps and the maximum divergences of clocks that are being read. Clock synchronisation subsequently plays a critical role in investor protection by being a mechanism that further supports fair, safe, efficient, and transparent markets.

In addition to electronic trading compliance, firms relying on voice trading also need to remain compliant by guaranteeing their voice systems record legacy T1s and E1s through reliable clocking to avoid a degraded service and enable regulatory monitoring of trading activity.

DRIVING BUSINESS GROWTH

All financial firms have their complexities; however, their networks shouldn’t be one of them. It is important that firms ensure they are able to embed services closer to liquidity venues and market participants, whether co-located or across a wider community. Another industry trend is SaaS and Cloud-based models fast becoming the norm within the financial markets community. As such, market participants need high precision, synchronised and traceable time feeds across different technologies and across global markets.

IPC is an expert in helping the financial community interact and proactively address market challenges, ensuring firms remain connected and compliant. The company offers one of the largest Financial Markets Network portfolio, connecting global financial centres and allowing access to more than 6,000 market participant locations across 700 cities in more than 60 countries. The portfolio includes data connectivity solutions consisting of the Connexus Extranet, Connexus Ethernet and Connexus WAN, as well as voice solutions consisting of Connexus Voice and Trader Voice services.

The company’s Connexus Infrastructure Services (CIS), a managed private and hybrid Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), enables financial firms to execute a variety of electronic trading strategies and embed services closer to liquidity venues and market participants, whether co-located or across a wide community.

IPC also recently launched Connexus Chrono, a turnkey clock synchronisation and time stamping service engineered to deliver high precision, synchronised and traceable time feeds to global financial market participants. The service can be delivered in a variety of different levels of accuracy ranging from 1 microsecond to 250 microseconds, and is delivered worldwide.

IPC and TransFICC Announce Collaboration on Fixed Income and Derivatives Connectivity

NEW YORK and LONDON – April 4, 2017 – IPC, a leading global provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for the financial markets community, today announced its collaboration with TransFICC, the financial technology company which provides “One API for eTrading” for the fixed income and derivatives markets.  The collaboration will provide over 6000 market participants in IPC’s diverse Fixed Income Marketplace with secure access to the production and UAT environments of TransFICC’s high performance API. The IPC Fixed Income Marketplace is a premier holistic connectivity solution for market participants to trade fixed income instruments electronically or via voice.

TransFICC’s consolidated API enables buy-side and sell-side clients to connect with multiple electronic trading venues. The API is designed for fast market data throughput, and to ease the process for clients connecting to new liquidity venues and upgrading when venues update their APIs.

“Electronification, regulatory impact on bank balance sheets, liquidity shifts to the buy-side, and fragmentation of trading venues and protocols continue to affect the global fixed income and derivatives markets,” said Tim Carmody, Vice President, Global Product Management and Engineering, Financial Markets Network, IPC, “As a result, secure and reliable connectivity is crucial to sourcing liquidity, linking market participants and enabling all-to-all trading for fixed income market participants.”

Carmody continued “We are excited to work with TransFICC to enable market participants in the IPC Fixed Income Marketplace to connect to their counterparties and source liquidity.  This includes access to our vast community as well as secure, reliable connections to other private and public clouds such as the Equinix Cloud Exchange and Amazon Web Services.”

“TransFICC offers flexible and scalable technology required to address the issues of fragmentation, high throughput market data and MiFID II reporting in the fixed income market,” said Steve Toland, Founder of TransFICC. “By collaborating with IPC we offer clients access to the TransFICC platform through IPC’s secure Fixed Income Marketplace, easing the process of connecting to new liquidity venues.”

Fixed Income Marketplace is part of the IPC Financial Markets Network portfolio which also includes Connexus Extranet, Connexus Ethernet, Connexus WAN, Connexus Voice and Trader Voice services. IPC’s Financial Markets Network interconnects global financial centers and allows access to more than 6,000 market participant locations across 700 cities in more than 60 countries.

About TransFICC

Launched in 2016, TransFICC provides technology, which addresses the three issues of fragmentation, market data throughput and MiFID II/R regulation. Its “One API for eTrading” delivers low latency, scalable and secure connectivity for banks and the buy-side trading in the fixed income and derivatives markets. The TransFICC development team has significant technical expertise, having previously worked for LMAX Exchange, recognized for its technological excellence and innovation.
www.transficc.trade

About IPC

IPC is a technology and service leader that powers financial markets globally. We help clients anticipate change and solve problems, setting the standard with industry expertise, exceptional service and comprehensive technology. With customers first and always, we collaborate with each to understand their individual needs to help make them secure, productive and compliant within our connected community. Through service excellence, long-developed expertise and a focus on innovation and community, we provide agile and efficient ways for our customers to accelerate their ability to adapt to the ever–changing requirements for advanced networks, compliance and collaboration with all counterparties across the financial markets. www.ipc.com

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.

 

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IPC Launches Global Exchange Reach Solution

BUDAPEST – March 29, 2017 – IPC, a leading global provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for the financial markets community, today announced the launch of Global Exchange Reach, a premier, industry-leading connectivity solution that enables exchanges, alternative trading systems (ATSs), multilateral trading facilities (MTFs) and other liquidity venues located in one part of the world to attract order flow and distribute market data in new geographies. The solution is already in production for Singapore Exchange (SGX) in North America where IPC manages the SGX Chicago Hub at CME Group’s facility in Aurora, Illinois. The announcement is part of IPC’s rapid expansion of its product portfolio and was made here at the World Exchange Congress.

“Liquidity venues are increasingly looking to attract institutional investors, asset managers, hedge funds and market makers outside their primary market to fuel profitable and sustainable growth,” said Anthony J. Perrotta Jr., Chief Executive Officer, TABB Group, an international research and consulting firm focused exclusively on the capital markets. “At the same time, the investment community is seeking new ways to create alpha, source liquidity, diversify portfolios, manage trading costs and mitigate risk.”

Perrotta continued, “Investment management firms, broker-dealers and liquidity venues require adaptive on-demand connectivity throughout the trade lifecycle across multiple asset classes and access to a diverse, ready-made ecosystem of market participants to pivot beyond their core and capture fresh and unique opportunities.”

“As their home markets saturate, we see significant demand among the 6,000 market participants in our global financial ecosystem for reliable, secure and cost-effective access to new sources of liquidity,” said Tim Carmody, Vice President, Global Product Management and Engineering, Financial Markets Network, IPC. “Our Global Exchange Reach solution has been performance engineered to fulfil a critical market need by simplifying challenges and removing friction for connecting investors and liquidity venues whose primary markets are in different parts of the world.”

Global Exchange Reach is part of the IPC Financial Markets Network portfolio which also includes Connexus Extranet, Connexus Ethernet, Connexus WAN, Connexus Voice and Trader Voice services. IPC’s Financial Markets Network interconnects global financial centers and allows access to more than 6,000 market participant locations across 700 cities in more than 60 countries. Market participants interested in speaking to IPC’s subject matter experts can schedule a meeting with us at the conference or email us. We also encourage you to follow us on Twitter @IPC_Systems_Inc or LinkedIn.  

About IPC

IPC is a technology and service leader that powers financial markets globally. We help clients anticipate change and solve problems, setting the standard with industry expertise, exceptional service and comprehensive technology. With customers first and always, we collaborate with each to understand their individual needs to help make them secure, productive and compliant within our connected community. Through service excellence, long-developed expertise and a focus on innovation and community, we provide agile and efficient ways for our customers to accelerate their ability to adapt to the ever–changing requirements for advanced networks, compliance and collaboration with all counterparties across the financial markets. www.ipc.com

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.

 

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IPC Introduces Industry’s First Compliance Policy Engine, Automating Proactive Financial Communications Rule Enforcement

NEW YORK – March 28, 2017 – In an industry first, IPC Systems, Inc., a leading global financial markets technology and service provider, today announced the launch of the IPC Compliance Policy Engine, a new comprehensive software innovation that automates proactive compliance adherence and mitigates risk by financial trading communications and information governance. IPC’s Compliance Policy Engine rollout is part of the company’s growing Risk & Compliance portfolio of services and solutions.

“With regulations such as Dodd-Frank, MAR, and MiFID II, capital market participants face the increasing burden of both interpreting the impact of regulations and demonstrating they are properly enforcing policies,” said Lionel Grosclaude, Senior Vice President, Risk & Compliance at IPC. “Financial companies today are not only liable if their employees are out of compliance, but if their supervisory and management systems do not adequately monitor and mitigate risks. IPC’s new Compliance Policy Engine is purpose-built for trader voice communications, empowering firms with easy to implement technology that establishes, maintains and helps automate policy enforcement.”

IPC Compliance Policy Engine can help firms stay compliant by allowing companies to establish, enforce, and supervise communications policies that, based on roles and organizational structure, appropriately permit or block voice communications between groups of employees or individuals in order to comply with global Material Non-Public Information Disclosure and Conflict of Interest regulations.

“Proactively managing trading communications and information governance risks will enable financial services firms to evolve their organizations more quickly and gain a competitive advantage,” said Lionel Grosclaude. “We are excited to add the ability to provide end-to-end proactive compliance to our growing portfolio of services and solutions that help our customers manage risks in their environment to ensure compliance.”

IPC’s new Compliance Policy Engine software platform is now available for the IPC Unigy platform, the company’s flagship unified communications and application platform.  IPC Unigy is the world’s most widely adopted, secure, compliant end-to-end solution purpose-built to address the specific needs of the global regulated financial markets community.

About IPC

IPC is a technology and service leader that powers financial markets globally. We help clients anticipate change and solve problems, setting the standard with industry expertise, exceptional service and comprehensive technology. With customers first and always, we collaborate with each to understand their individual needs to help make them secure, productive and compliant within our connected community. Through service excellence, long-developed expertise and a focus on innovation and community, we provide agile and efficient ways for our customers to accelerate their ability to adapt to the ever–changing requirements for advanced data networks, compliance and collaboration with all counter-parties across the financial markets. www.ipc.com

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.

 

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IPC Thought Leader to Present at the World Exchange Congress

BUDAPEST – March 27, 2017 – IPC Systems, Inc., is proud to announce one of the company’s thought leaders, Ganesh Iyer, IPC’s Global Director of Product Marketing, will be presenting to executives of exchanges, alternatives trading systems, multilateral trading facilities and other liquidity venues at the World Exchange Congress in Budapest, Hungary scheduled to be held on March 29 and 30, 2017 at the Corinthia Hotel. The event will focus on critical issues facing the global exchange community such as the evolving regulatory environment and market structure, technological innovation, lack of liquidity during volatile market conditions, and growth of multi-asset trading.

During his presentation titled “Ecosystem-as-a-Service: Reliably and Securely Accessing Global Liquidity Venues,” Mr. Iyer will be focusing on the benefits of adaptive, on-demand connectivity throughout the trade lifecycle and access to a large and diverse ecosystem of market participants to successfully execute trading strategies, generate alpha, source liquidity and mitigate risk. Mr. Iyer holds the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designation, is an elected member of the Executive Committee of the Financial Information Services Association of the SIIA and has been a speaker and panelist at prestigious industry events around the world.

The IPC Financial Markets Network portfolio includes data connectivity solutions consisting of the Connexus Extranet, Connexus Ethernet and Connexus WAN as well as voice solutions consisting of Connexus Voice and Trader Voice services.  IPC’s Financial Markets Network interconnects global financial centers and allows access to more than 6,000 market participant locations across 700 cities in more than 60 countries. Market participants interested in speaking to IPC’s subject matter experts can schedule a meeting with us at the conference or email us. 

About IPC

IPC is a technology and service leader that powers financial markets globally. We help clients anticipate change and solve problems, setting the standard with industry expertise, exceptional service and comprehensive technology. With customers first and always, we collaborate with each to understand their individual needs to help make them secure, productive and compliant within our connected community. Through service excellence, long-developed expertise and a focus on innovation and community, we provide agile and efficient ways for our customers to accelerate their ability to adapt to the ever–changing requirements for advanced networks, compliance and collaboration with all counterparties across the financial markets. www.ipc.com

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.

 

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TRAFiX Joins IPC’s Global Financial Ecosystem

NEW YORK – March 22, 2017 – IPC, a leading global provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for the financial markets community, today announced that it continues to grow its rapidly expanding financial marketplace with the addition of TRAFiX to the IPC Financial Markets Network (FMN). IPC’s diverse ecosystem of buy-side and sell-side firms can now reliably connect to the TRAFiX OMS, EMS and Managed FIX Routing Solution to trade equities, options and complex derivatives.

“Given today’s volatile markets, portfolio managers and traders are seeking novel solutions that are engineered to address their most complex trading challenges,” said Michael Ottrando, Managing Director and Global Head of Sales at TRAFiX. “We are delighted to work with IPC to expand the reach of our holistic suite of trade lifecycle services and empower a wider community of global capital market participants to generate alpha and achieve best execution.”

“The markets demand secure and reliable connectivity for every step in the investment cycle including idea generation, optimal idea expression, trade execution, risk management, compliance, clearing, settlement and market data delivery,” said David Brown, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Financial Markets Network, IPC. “We are thrilled to collaborate with TRAFiX to provide innovative solutions to our diverse community of institutional investors, fund managers and market makers and enable their increasingly complex global search for alpha across asset classes.”

The IPC Financial Markets Network portfolio includes Connexus Extranet, Connexus Ethernet, Connexus WAN, Connexus Voice and Trader Voice services. IPC’s Financial Markets Network interconnects global financial centers and allows access to more than 6,000 market participant locations across 700 cities in more than 60 countries. Market participants interested in speaking to IPC’s subject matter experts can schedule a meeting with us or email us. We also encourage you to follow us on Twitter @IPC_Systems_Inc or LinkedIn.

About TRAFiX

TRAFiX LLC is a Fintech company and broker-neutral technology provider founded to supply cutting-edge, innovative Order and Execution Management solutions, as well as real-time FIX connectivity and normalized API interfaces, to address the functional and regulatory requirements of the Financial Services Industry.  Our real-time, scalable products have been specifically designed to utilize the latest enhancements in software development and enterprise architecture to resolve the growing challenges faced by today’s trading community.  Currently supporting electronic equity, option and complex option trading, our open architecture allows for the ongoing addition of future asset classes.  For additional information or to request a demo, please contact sales@trafix.com. It’s time to Trade Up to TRAFiX.  www.trafix.com

About IPC

IPC is a technology and service leader that powers financial markets globally. We help clients anticipate change and solve problems, setting the standard with industry expertise, exceptional service and comprehensive technology. With customers first and always, we collaborate with each to understand their individual needs to help make them secure, productive and compliant within our connected community. Through service excellence, long-developed expertise and a focus on innovation and community, we provide agile and efficient ways for our customers to accelerate their ability to adapt to the ever–changing requirements for advanced networks, compliance and collaboration with all counterparties across the financial markets. www.ipc.com

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.

 

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IPC and HFN Collaboration Expands Capabilities Across Both Networks

Paramus, NJ – March 21, 2017 – Hudson Fiber Network (“HFN”) and IPC today announced an agreement to expand their collaboration. The engagement enables IPC to increase its network reach and cost efficiency for HFN’s high bandwidth low latency network services, while strengthening HFN’s portfolio with IPC’s portfolio to custom design connectivity solutions for their customers.

The announcement follows HFN’s recent launch of its national Wide Area Network with live service across 16 markets in the top US business centers. HFN, a premier data transport provider offering high-bandwidth, low-latency networking solutions for financial, content, carrier and enterprise customers, continues to serve a broad clientele of key financial institutions in the New York/New Jersey area.

IPC, a leading global provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for the financial markets community, recently purchased additional circuits from HFN in order to reinforce its backbone and expand the collaboration by delivering HFN white label solutions, including MPLS/MVPN and market data services that enable HFN to solidify its “Smart Grid” strategy.

“Our partnership with IPC continues to expand. Access to our nationwide network enables IPC to tap into the latest fiber solutions in the market and to respond to fast deployment requirements of their customers throughout North America,” explains HFN COO Keith Muller. “In turn, HFN leverages the IPC product suite to enhance its solutions platform. The collaboration allows both companies to deliver a rather unequaled offering in the financial markets community.”

“HFN is one of the strategic partners of choice for IPC. We focus on delivering fully managed global voice and data network solutions to the financial services industry, and HFN’s deep roots working with financial institutions is an invaluable asset in delivering our solutions to a broader base of customers,” adds David Brown, SVP, Managing Director Network Services at IPC Systems, Inc.

Muller noted that the collaboration with IPC demonstrates how companies can expand on the HFN fiber footprint nationally and expand its “Smart Grid” environment throughout the US.

ABOUT IPC

IPC is a technology and service leader that powers financial markets globally. We help clients anticipate change and solve problems, setting the standard with industry expertise, exceptional service and comprehensive technology. With customers first and always, we collaborate with each to understand their individual needs to help make them secure, productive and compliant within our connected community.

Through service excellence, long-developed expertise and a focus on innovation and community, we provide agile and efficient ways for our customers to accelerate their ability to adapt to the ever–changing requirements for advanced networks, compliance and collaboration with all counterparties across the financial markets. www.ipc.com

ABOUT HUDSON FIBER NETWORK (HFN)

Hudson Fiber Network (HFN) is the premier data transport provider, offering flexible networking solutions for financial, content, carrier and enterprise clients. HFN fully owns and operates the HFN Northeast Network connecting over 90 locations of the busiest traffic hubs in New York and New Jersey and onto its national WAN spanning the top 16 markets in the US. The HFN suite of purpose-built solutions enables clients with increased network efficiency and lower overall networking expenditures.

Services include Gigabit Ethernet, optical wave solutions and IP connectivity (10 MB through 100 Gig), and are delivered in and between key U.S. and global metropolitan markets.

HFN was established in 2002 and is headquartered in Paramus, New Jersey.

For more information, please visit www.hudsonfiber.com or contact us at 1-888-HFN-4573 or www.hudsonfiber.com

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IPC and Actiance Collaborate to Provide Next-generation Archival Solutions Empowering Financial Services Industry Compliance

NEW YORK – March 20, 2017 – IPC Systems, Inc. (IPC), a leading provider of global communications solutions and software for the financial services industry, announced an agreement with Actiance, a global leader in communications compliance, and archiving. This collaboration will leverage Actiance’s Alcatraz solution by offering IPC’s financial services customers a holistic archival solution across various digital communications, including voice.

“The ability to holistically manage all communication data from the point of origination through capture, archive and transaction analysis will be a competitive advantage for financial services firms that want to ensure they comply with all regulatory requirements as efficiently as possible and improve their risk management capabilities,” said Lionel Grosclaude, SVP, Risk and Compliance at IPC. “IPC’s ability to unite voice retention capabilities with other media types is a pivotal step forward in solving customers’ critical information management and regulatory compliance challenges. We are excited to collaborate with a market leader like Actiance in our continuous effort to provide our customers with industry-leading compliance solutions.”

Alcatraz is capable of archiving over 80 different types of digital communications, ranging from email to enterprise social networks, financial networks, and public social media. Via this collaboration, IPC will unify communications across a diverse set of voice platforms and work with Actiance to add this content to Alcatraz. IPC will offer its more than 6,000 financial services customers worldwide a scalable and cost-effective cloud-based or premise-based archive solution that not only stores and catalogues digital communications data, but voice communications as well. The aim is to enable financial services companies to streamline and simplify the process by which they archive their information in order to comply with evolving and complex regulatory demands globally. The IPC Alcatraz solution will also facilitate retention policy implementation and provide the ability to efficiently search, analyze and access information across all media types related to a single transaction or interaction, or as many as may be needed.

“We are thrilled with the partnership, a true game-changer, and we look forward to working with IPC to jointly deliver voice and communications compliance and archiving to the global regulated market,” said Kailash Ambwani, President and CEO, Actiance. “IPC’s selection of Alcatraz underscores how global customers are embracing the need to have a comprehensive archive that captures any type of content, with voice increasing in importance.”

About IPC

IPC is a technology and service leader that powers financial markets globally. We help clients anticipate change and solve problems, setting the standard with industry expertise, exceptional service and comprehensive technology. With customers first and always, we collaborate with each to understand their individual needs to help make them secure, productive and compliant within our connected community. Through service excellence, long-developed expertise and a focus on innovation and community, we provide agile and efficient ways for our customers to accelerate their ability to adapt to the ever–changing requirements for advanced data networks, compliance and collaboration with all counter-parties across the financial markets. www.ipc.com

About Actiance

Actiance is the leader in communications compliance, archiving and analytics. We provide compliance across the broadest set of communications and social channels with insights on what’s being captured. Actiance customers manage over 500 million daily conversations across 80 channels and growing. Customers include the top 10 U.S., top 5 Canadian, the top 8 European and the top 3 Asian banks. The Actiance advantage is customers stay ahead of compliance and uncover patterns and relationships hidden within their data. Learn more at www.actiance.com.

Actiance headquarters are in Redwood City, California. For more information, visit http://www.actiance.com or call 1-888-349-3223.

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.

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IPC to Sponsor FISD Conferences in Singapore and Australia

SINGAPORE and SYDNEY – March 14, 2017 – IPC, a leading global provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for the financial markets community, today announced that it will be attending and sponsoring key FISD conferences to be held in Singapore and Sydney on 23rd March and 28th March respectively.

Influential regional industry executives from sell-side firms, investment managers, liquidity venues, market data vendors and technology providers will meet at these events to discuss current major issues impacting the industry.  Topics will cover data governance, market structure, wealth management, and regulatory compliance within the APAC region.  IPC executives will be at the events to share with attendees, tactical strategies and thoughts around the importance of market participants having reliable and secure connectivity throughout the trade lifecycle and access to an established ecosystem.

The Financial Information Services Association of the Software & Information Industry Association (FISD) provides a neutral business forum for exchanges, market data vendors, specialist data providers, brokerage firms, investment managers and banks to address and resolve business and technical issues within the financial sector.

IPC’s Financial Markets Network interconnects global financial centers and allows access to more than 6,000 market participant locations across 700 cities in more than 60 countries. Market participants interested in speaking to IPC’s subject matter experts can schedule a meeting with us at the conferences or email us. We also encourage you to follow us on Twitter @IPC_Systems_Inc or LinkedIn.

About IPC

IPC is a technology and service leader that powers financial markets globally. We help customers anticipate change and solve problems, setting the standard with industry expertise, exceptional service and comprehensive technology. With customers first and always, we collaborate with each to understand their individual needs to help make them secure, productive and compliant within our connected community. Through service excellence, long-developed expertise and a focus on innovation and community, we provide agile and efficient ways for our customers to accelerate their ability to adapt to the ever–changing requirements for advanced networks, compliance and collaboration with all counterparties across the financial markets. www.ipc.com

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.

 

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IPC to Sponsor and Exhibit at the EMEA Trading Conference 2017

LONDON – February 22, 2017 – IPC, a leading global provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for the financial markets community, today announced that it will sponsor and exhibit at the EMEA Trading Conference 2017 to be held at Old Billingsgate on March 2. The conference is one of Europe’s leading trading technology events and will be attended by some of the industry’s most influential executives from buy-side firms, sell-side firms, liquidity venues, market data vendors and technology providers. Topics that will be discussed include MiFID II, cybersecurity, post-trade processes and the evolving market structure for equities, fixed income and OTC derivatives. IPC will be showcasing at Stand B1, solutions that offer adaptive, on-demand connectivity throughout the trade lifecycle and across asset classes to address the communication, collaboration and data needs of market participants. 

The IPC Financial Markets Network portfolio includes data connectivity solutions consisting of the Connexus Extranet, Connexus Ethernet and Connexus WAN as well as voice solutions consisting of Connexus Voice and Trader Voice services.  IPC’s Financial Markets Network interconnects global financial centers and allows access to more than 6,000 market participant locations across 700 cities in more than 60 countries. Market participants interested in speaking to IPC’s subject matter experts can schedule a meeting with us at the conference or email us. We also encourage you to follow us on Twitter @IPC_Systems_Inc or LinkedIn.

About IPC

IPC is a technology and service leader that powers financial markets globally. We help clients anticipate change and solve problems, setting the standard with industry expertise, exceptional service and comprehensive technology. With customers first and always, we collaborate with each to understand their individual needs to help make them secure, productive and compliant within our connected community. Through service excellence, long-developed expertise and a focus on innovation and community, we provide agile and efficient ways for our customers to accelerate their ability to adapt to the ever–changing requirements for advanced networks, compliance and collaboration with all counterparties across the financial markets. www.ipc.com

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.

 

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