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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 23^rd March and 28^th 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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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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NEW YORK – February 15, 2017 – IPC is proud to announce that one of the company’s thought leaders, Ganesh Iyer, CAIA, FIA, Global Product Marketing Director, Financial Markets Network will be moderating a panel discussion titled “Biometrics: What Happens Next?” at the FISD Issue Brief in New York scheduled to be held on February 23. The session will feature industry veterans who will discuss and assess various methods of biometric authentication and how they are used in the financial information industry. As part of this discussion, panelists will also envisage when or whether we will ever be able to access financial information without the need to remember a frequently changing password.

Mr. Iyer holds the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) and Financial Information Associate (FIA) designations 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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ESSEN, GERMANY – February 7, 2017 – IPC, a leading global provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for the financial markets community, today announced the launch of Connexus^® Chrono, a turnkey clock synchronization and time stamping service engineered to deliver high precision, synchronized and traceable time feeds to global financial market participants. The announcement was made here at the E-world Energy & Water Conference.

IPC delivers the Connexus Chrono solution from 10 state-of-the-art facilities in the European Union, North America and leading financial centers in the Asia-Pacific region such as Australia, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore. Accurate, reliable and auditable time feeds are established using atomic clocks and are synchronized to UTC to ensure the same time is available from all Connexus Chrono clocks globally. Connexus Chrono can be delivered at a variety of different levels of accuracy ranging from 1 microsecond to 250 microseconds. The Connexus Chrono offering continues as part of a broader strategic plan from IPC to offer an innovative and comprehensive suite of products and services related to compliant communications.

“Clock synchronization and time stamping play a critical role in investor protection and the creation of fair, safe, efficient and transparent markets,” said Anthony J. Perrotta Jr., Chief Executive Officer, TABB Group, an international research and consulting firm focused exclusively on the capital markets. “Market participants leveraging industry-leading solutions will achieve significant business benefits in addition to being able to easily comply with global regulatory requirements while enabling authorities to better monitor markets and trading activity.”

“Time accuracy and synchronization 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 the clock they are read from depending on the trading strategy,” said Robert Powell, Director of Compliance, IPC. “Connexus Chrono has been performance engineered to ensure that market participants are not only in compliance with global regulations around clock-synchronization of trade data but also benefit from enhanced performance visibility, risk mitigation, digital forensics and accurate financial reporting.”

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.

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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NEW YORK and LONDON – February 2, 2017 – IPC, a leading global provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for the financial markets community, is proud to announce that Ganesh Iyer, CAIA, FIA, Global Product Marketing Director, Financial Markets Network, has been elected to be part of the FISD Executive Committee. The Financial Information Services Association of the Software & Information Industry Association 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 related to the distribution, management, administration and use of market data within the financial sector.

“The financial information market is going through a momentous period of change and the FISD benefits substantially from the insights and contributions of industry leaders,” said Tom Davin, Managing Director, FISD. “We congratulate IPC’s Ganesh Iyer on his election and welcome him to the FISD Executive Committee.”

“Ganesh has been elected to the FISD Executive Committee at a very exciting and transformative time for both IPC and the market,” said Neil Barua, Chief Executive Officer, IPC. “I am delighted that we will have the opportunity to offer valuable insights on commercial, technical, and regulatory issues that face the financial information industry by leveraging Ganesh’s expertise.”

Iyer focuses on capital markets, multiple asset classes as well as alternative investments such as hedge funds, managed futures, private equity, structured products, commodities and real assets. He has been featured in the press, including the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times and is a frequent presenter at prestigious global industry events. He holds an MBA from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business and is both a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) and an FISD Financial Information Associate (FIA).

About FISD

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 related to the distribution, management, administration and use of market data. Members use this forum to exchange ideas, build business relationships and improve the business climate associated with the worldwide flow of financial information. The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) is the principal trade association for the software and digital content industry. SIIA provides global services in government relations, business development, corporate education and intellectual property protection to the leading companies that are setting the pace for the digital age. SIIA is an umbrella association representing 800+ technology, data and media companies globally. For more information, visit fisd.net

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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NEW YORK and LONDON – January 31, 2017 – IPC, a leading global provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for the financial markets community, today announced an agreement with Verba, a leader in call recording and quality management solutions for unified communications that support instant messaging, voice, and video devices, to provide compliance solutions for IPC customers who use Skype for Business™.

In this effort, IPC will provide customers with the ability to record, index and archive all Skype for Business™ communications – instant messaging, voice, video, application / screen sharing, file transfer and content sharing recording – in a single unified system that is easy-to-use, quick to search and accessible anywhere at any time. The solution can be deployed either on premise, or in the cloud. The partnership is part of a broader strategic plan from IPC to offer an innovative and comprehensive suite of products and services related to compliant communications.

“The ability to capture, archive and analyze various types of communications media via a truly integrated information governance solution, provided by IPC, will be a competitive advantage for financial service firms seeking to deal with regulatory requirements efficiently,” said Lionel Grosclaude, IPC’s Senior Vice President of Risk and Compliance. “This move shows the pace with which we are further broadening our compliance leadership position as customers turn to us to help them manage regulatory developments.”

“Our partnership with IPC is a great step forward for both our firm and our customers alike. IPC is a clear leader in Financial Markets technologies, their products are used at most of the world’s leading financial institutions. Combining IPC’s technology and market leadership with Verba’s capture experience in compliance solutions for Skype for Business™ will help accelerate adoption of the latest collaboration techniques in all regulated industries,” said Sam Daroczy, CEO of Verba.

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 Verba

The Verba Collaboration Compliance and Quality Management Platform is a complete collaboration recording and contact center quality management solution for Skype for Business™. Verba provides collaboration compliance, quality management and speech analytics with integrated recording of instant messaging, voice, video with screen and content sharing in a single unified platform.

Verba solutions help leading global organizations manage risk and compliance, develop quality assurance and increase productivity to enhance their business. Verba software is deployed at over 1000 sites in more than 50 countries.

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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NEW YORK – December 1, 2016 – IPC, a leading global provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for the financial markets community, today announced that the company will host a free webinar at 11 a.m. EST on December 6, 2016, with TABB Group, the international research and consulting firm focused exclusively on capital markets, to discuss the implications of implementing a zero tolerance compliance culture.

The webinar will cover why now, more than ever, creating a culture of compliance is important to ensure financial firms continue to grow and be profitable. Some firms have instituted zero tolerance approaches to breaches in company policy or compliance rules. Furthermore, the rise of social media and so many other forms of communication, like WhatsApp, Facebook messenger, iMessage, Twitter and other “zero evidence” solutions could potentially result in regulated employees using these systems to communicate.

Speakers Robert Powell, Director of Compliance, IPC, and Dayle Scher, Senior Analyst, TABB Group, will discuss the importance of zero tolerance culture, the risks and pitfalls of social media and the many forms of “zero evidence” communications that exist today, and also share examples of the penalties companies are currently facing for non-compliance with regulatory requirements.

When:                     Tuesday, December 6, 2016 11:00 a.m. EST (5:00 p.m. CET)

Where:                    Online

Tweet this Webinar: @IPC_Systems_Inc and @TABBGroup host webinar on zero tolerance #compliance culture and “zero evidence” #communications

About TABB Group

With offices in New York and London, TABB Group is the international research and consulting firm focused exclusively on capital markets, based on the interview-based, “first-person knowledge” research methodology developed by Larry Tabb. For more information, visit www.tabbgroup.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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David Brown, Senior Vice President and Managing Director – Financial Markets Network, IPC speaks to leading Russian institutional investors, asset managers, broker-dealers, exchanges and trade lifecycle service providers, at IPC’s Network Launch reception at the Swissotel Krasnye Holmy hotel in Moscow on November 16, 2016.

Good evening. It is an honor for me to host IPC’s Network Launch reception on behalf of the many dedicated IPC employees and partners in Russia and around the world who are responsible for the company’s success.

At IPC, we truly appreciate and value our customers and partners. Your passion for succeeding in the Russian financial markets, combined with our commitment to your total satisfaction, enables our mutual success. In that spirit, we have organized today’s customer appreciation event at this iconic venue in Moscow, one of the world’s great capitals and financial centers.

IPC provides global market participants with connectivity throughout the trade lifecycle and on demand access to one of the world’s largest financial ecosystems that has over 6000 locations across 700 cities in more than 60 countries. Today, we mark an important milestone for IPC. We are delighted to announce our enhanced network capabilities in Russia. IPC’s points-of-presence (PoPs) in Moscow have been enhanced to support all of our solutions including our flagship extranet service, latency sensitive managed Ethernet service and MPLS corporate WAN solution. We are offering resilient, low latency connectivity from major global financial centers to IPC’s major Moscow POPs at DataSpace, M1 and M9. As a result, IPC is uniquely positioned to deliver a comprehensive product portfolio and solution set that is performance engineered to fulfill the growing demands of both Russian and global capital market participants. This initiative strongly reflects the strategic importance of the Russian capital markets in IPC’s overall strategy.

We are very excited about what our expanded capabilities in Russia mean for our company, and more importantly, for customers and partners like you. Again, thank you for being a part of IPC’s Global Financial Ecosystem.  We look forward to continuing our partnership with you.

New York, NY – November 16, 2016 – IPC, a leading provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for the financial markets community, today announced the launch of Connexus Infrastructure Services (CIS), a managed private and hybrid Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) with global availability at premier colocation facilities. Powered by IPC’s Connexus Cloud, CIS is part of IPC’s Financial Markets Network, one of the industry’s largest secure encrypted communications platforms connecting a community of over 200,000 users across 6,000 market participant locations in 700 cities.

CIS offers an array of solutions that enables market participants to execute a variety of electronic trading strategies across multiple asset classes in markets around the world. Services range from fractional cabinet colocation to complete infrastructure management including server, firewall and storage administration. These services are available in private or hybrid IaaS models coupled with managed connectivity that leverages IPC’s Connexus product portfolio for Extranet, WAN, Ethernet and Trader Voice services.

“In today’s highly competitive and ever changing financial markets landscape, Connexus Infrastructure Services delivers a competitive edge by offering a managed infrastructure with close proximity to numerous liquidity venues combined with varying levels of compute power, storage and security,” said Tim Carmody, Vice President, Global Product Management and Engineering, Financial Markets Network, IPC. “As a result, market participants can benefit from both optionality and flexibility through right-sized, cost-effective solutions that deliver ample processing power while minimizing latency.”

Carmody continued, “Given today’s volatile markets, investment managers and broker-dealers are continuing to seek innovative solutions that are engineered to address their most complex trading challenges. CIS and Connexus together provide a flexible, tailor-made and powerful solution by embedding services closer to liquidity venues and market participants, whether co-located or across a wide community.”

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.

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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