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New York, NY, April 18, 2016 – 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 at the FISD Technology Forum in New York on April 21, 2016 and the FISD Canada Conference in Toronto on April 28, 2016. Mr. Iyer will be focusing at both events on the benefits of having access to a large and diverse financial ecosystem in order to execute complex trading strategies, source liquidity and manage risk in volatile and challenging markets. Mr. Iyer’s presentations in New York and Toronto are titled “Sourcing Liquidity and Mitigating Risk in a High Volatility Regime” and “Delivering Commodity Alpha in Challenging Markets” respectively.

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.

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.

New York, NY – April 13, 2016 – IPC Systems, Inc., a leading global financial markets technology and service provider, announced its collaboration with Algomi, the network company providing information-matching solutions for the optimization of fixed income liquidity, to partner on the delivery of Algomi’s DealCall, an application which leverages IPC’s Financial Markets Cloud.

DealCall will be integrated into both Algomi’s award-winning Honeycomb platform and IPC’s community of financial market participants, enabling Honeycomb users to swiftly and securely connect to their dealers.

IPC and Algomi are working together to enable seamless communication for buy-side users of the Honeycomb application. With one click, users can access on-demand connectivity to their chosen sales coverage teams at their chosen banks. By bringing together the IPC community of over 6,000 diverse market participants and Algomi’s applications, DealCall creates a rich, secure and market enhancing experience for customers.

“We are very excited to be collaborating with Algomi,” said Neil Barua, CEO of IPC, “The successful implementation of DealCall on the IPC Financial Markets Cloud means Honeycomb network participants can work with their counterparts on large sensitive trades in an efficient and secure manner”.

DealCall will introduce an enhanced level of productivity and efficiency as Honeycomb network participants will have an integrated experience and be able to immediately communicate with counterparties. The users of the Honeycomb can now access bond information and dynamically communicate using instant messaging and instant voice communications.

“We are thrilled to be working with IPC to leverage their leading communication technology to enrich the Honeycomb client experience. The investor is able to deal in size, seek best execution, and remain discreet in the market. They can choose to communicate by voice, or existing secure instant messaging.” said Stu Taylor, CEO of Algomi. “Both Algomi and IPC share a common goal of empowering market participants to source liquidity, generate alpha and mitigate risk in the fixed income markets.”

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.

About Algomi

Algomi creates the bond information network that enables all market participants to securely and intelligently harness data to make valuable financial trading connections. In the ever-changing landscape of capital, leverage and liquidity requirements, Algomi’s revolutionary technology empowers fixed income professionals to fulfil their precise needs, for both sides of the market. By maximising the relationships between salespeople, traders and investors, the Algomi Honeycomb suite of scalable software greatly increases the opportunities and velocity in large and illiquid voice trades between banks, institutional investors and exchanges.

For banks, Algomi creates both a real-time internal network of salespeople and traders, and a discreet dynamic connection to their universe of investor clients and interbank parties. Using their own data, external aggregators and other sources; Algomi enables banks to identify the best trade opportunities and to generate efficient collaboration between traders, salespeople and their clients.

For portfolio managers, investor dealers and compliance teams, Algomi Honeycomb turns complex data systems into actionable knowledge. Helping investors trade with increased speed and success. Capturing the heartbeat of the world’s trading floors, Honeycomb provides the data and market insight vital to selecting the right banks and the right time to trade.

Algomi was founded in 2012 by Stu Taylor (Former Global Head of Matched Principal Trading and creator of PIN-FI at UBS), Usman Khan and Robert Howes (Founders of CAPXD), and Michael Schmidt (Former Head of European Credit Trading and IB Board Member at UBS. Backed by investment from Lakestar and an exceptional panel of Strategic Advisors, the Algomi team has grown to 120 employees with offices in London, New York and Hong Kong. 33Talgomi.com33T

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.

In addition, nothing contained herein is intended to be, nor shall it be construed as, investment advice, nor is it to be relied upon in making any investment or other decision. Neither Algomi Limited nor Algomi Corporation is regulated, registered as a broker-dealer or investment adviser in any jurisdiction. Prior to making any investment decision, you are advised to consult with your broker, investment adviser, or other appropriate tax or financial professional to determine the suitability of any investment. Different types of investments involve varying degrees of risk, and there can be no assurance that the future performance of any specific investment or investment strategy will be profitable or equal any historical performance level(s).

Neither Algomi Limited, Algomi Corporation, any of its affiliates, nor each of their respective officers, directors, members, agents, representatives, employees, or contractors, shall be responsible or have any liability for investment decisions based upon, or the results obtained from, the information systems discussed herein. You assume all risks of loss resulting, directly or indirectly, from the use of such information systems.

Honeycomb and DealCall are the trade marks of Algomi Limited.

New York, NY – April 12, 2016 – Marking a milestone in its transformation, global financial markets technology and service provider, IPC Systems, Inc. today launched their new brand identity and focus on “Connecting Opportunities.” The rebrand follows its acquisition of Etrali Trading Solutions earlier this year. It represents a strategic evolution reflecting an enhanced focus on customer solutions in the areas of compliance and regulatory adherence, the financial markets community, and communications.

“Our new branding builds on our legacy and highlights our focus on innovation with a strong vision for the future,” said Neil Barua, CEO of IPC. “Our deep portfolio of products and services is specifically built to serve and empower the global financial community. As growing compliance and regulatory adherence make our clients’ every day communications more complex, we deliver real solutions to these challenges. We are excited about this next phase of our global transformation and we look forward to developing the solutions our customers need in this evolving marketplace.”

IPC’s new march forward highlights the company’s strategic focus on three main areas:

• Connecting the Global Financial Community: With the financial markets in a state of constant evolution, everyone needs global access and IPC operates one of the largest, most secure financial communities in the world. It facilitate services to over 6,000 market participants in 700 cities in 60 countries across six continents It provides them with access to critical information, while securely connecting them to a network of successful opportunities.
• Exchanging Information: IPC’s deep portfolio of products and services are designed to allow customers to communicate, exchange information and conduct business. Our networking, software and interfaces help create productive interactions, deep client relationships and a competitive advantage.
• Mitigating Risk: IPC helps firms mitigate risk and turn an obligation into a competitive advantage. By continually interpreting regulatory guidelines in a dynamic global landscape, IPC develops and integrates innovative compliance solutions for our clients.

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.

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.

NEW YORK – April 6, 2016 – OTC Markets Group Inc. (OTCQX: OTCM), operator of financial markets for 10,000 U.S. and global securities, today announced it has added IPC Systems, Inc., a leading global provider of specialized communications and managed network-as-a-service solutions for the financial trading community, as an extranet and connectivity provider for OTC Markets Group’s real-time market data and OTC Link^® ATS. As a result, IPC’s diverse global ecosystem of buy-side and sell-side financial institutions, inter-dealer brokers and other capital market participants can now conveniently access market data for OTCQX^®, OTCQB^® and Pink^® securities.

“Broker-dealers in OTCQX, OTCQB and Pink securities are demanding more connectivity options for sourcing data and liquidity,” said Matthew Fuchs, Executive Vice President of Market Data and Strategy at OTC Markets Group. “We are excited to add IPC to our growing network of extranet and connectivity providers and expanding the global base of investors that can trade these securities.”

“Institutional investors, traditional asset managers, alternative investment managers as well as firms providing banking and intermediation services are dependent on timely, accurate and reliable delivery of market data to source liquidity, generate alpha and mitigate risk,” said David Brown, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Financial Markets Network, IPC. “We are delighted to collaborate with OTC Markets Group to provide our diverse ecosystem of more than 6,000 capital market participants with a streamlined investment decision-making process.”

OTC Markets Group provides mission-critical market data, company data and security information on OTCQX, OTCQB and Pink securities to the trading, investment, legal and regulatory communities. The Company’s data products include real-time data, end-of-day data, historical quote data, company financial data, security master data, corporate reference data and compliance data. OTC Markets Group also provides data through leading market data redistributors. For more about OTC Markets Group’s real-time market data products, including connectivity information, visit http://www.otcmarkets.com/services/market-data/realtime-data/overview.

 

About IPC

IPC Systems, Inc. is the technology and service provider of choice powering the global financial markets. With a 40-year, award-winning history, IPC’s focus on innovation, service excellence and partnership with customers has delivered valuable solutions that set the standard for a productive, secure and compliant financial community. IPC accelerates a customer’s ability to be agile and adapt to dynamic industry requirements for counterparty and liquidity access, advanced networking capability, regulatory adherence and global compliance mandates. Headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, IPC connects a global financial services community of more than 6,000 market participants across 700 cities worldwide. For more information, visit www.ipc.com.

About OTC Markets Group Inc.

OTC Markets Group Inc. (OTCQX: OTCM) operates Open, Transparent and Connected financial markets for 10,000 U.S. and global securities. Through our OTC Link® ATS, we directly link a diverse network of broker-dealers that provide liquidity and execution services for a wide spectrum of securities. We organize these securities into markets to inform investors of opportunities and risks: the OTCQX® Best Market; the OTCQB® Venture Market; and the Pink® Open Market. Our data-driven platform enables investors to easily trade through the broker of their choice at the best possible price and empowers a broad range of companies to improve the quality and availability of information for their investors. To learn more about how we create better informed and more efficient financial markets, visit www.otcmarkets.com.

OTC Link ATS is operated by OTC Link LLC, member FINRA/SIPC and SEC regulated ATS.

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Jersey City, NJ and Bogotá, Colombia – IPC Systems, Inc., a leading global provider of specialized communications and managed network-as-a-service solutions for the financial trading community, today announced it continues to expand its financial marketplace in Latin America with the addition of Bolsa de Valores de Colombia (BVC) to the IPC Financial Markets Network (FMN) through a leading market data provider.

IPC’s FMN now provides capital market participants around the world with a secure, reliable connectivity they can rely on to access Colombia’s financial markets while meeting their local regulatory requirements in doing so. The announcement is part of IPC’s continued global network expansion and now provides domestic and foreign investors the ability to trade equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, energy, listed derivatives and OTC derivatives as well as access market data in the Colombian market.

BVC manages variable income, fixed income and standardized derivatives trading platforms while operating currency and energy derivative markets and price provision services via its subsidiaries. BVC has an active global presence as a member of the main equity industry forums, including the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) and the Federación Iberoamericana de Bolsas (FIAB), of which it currently holds the presidency. In addition, BVC forms part of the Mercado Integrado Latinoamericano (MILA), together with the Bolsa de Comercio de Santiago (BCS), the Bolsa de Valores de Lima (BVL), the Bolsa Mexicana de Valores (BMV) and the central securities deposits of Colombia, Chile, Peru and Mexico.

“There has been a dramatic increase in the interest among global institutional investors to access Colombia’s capital markets as a result of the country’s steady growth, business-friendly environment, and abundant natural resources,” said David Brown, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Financial Markets Network, IPC. “We are excited to welcome BVC, one of Latin America’s leading exchanges, to our financial marketplace.”

The IPC Financial Markets Network service portfolio includes the Connexus Financial Extranet, Direct Connect and MPLS WAN data services, as well as Trader and Enhanced Voice connectivity services. IPC’s Financial Markets Network interconnects global financial centers and allows access to more than 6,000 market participant locations in over 700 cities in nearly 60 countries.

About the BVC

The Colombian Securities Exchange (BVC:CB) is Colombia’s primary trading platform. It is a private company listed on the public securities market. The BVC is a multi-product, multi-market exchange offering a trading platform for the equity, fixed income and standardized derivatives markets. Likewise, the BVC provides issuer list and market information services. Also, through its subsidiaries, the BVC trades and provides services on the Foreign Exchange Markets (Set Icap FX S.A.); fixed income and OTC derivatives (Set Icap Securities); Energy Derivatives Market (Derivex S.A.); Innovative Technology Services (Sophos Banking Solutions); and it offers services of price assessment (Infovalmer PPV S.A.). Additionally, the BVC is involved in the whole securities industry value chain through holdings in the Central Securities Depository (Deceval), the Central Counterparty Risk Clearing House (CRCC) and in the FX Clearing House (CCDC). For more information, visit www.bvc.com.co.

About IPC 

IPC Systems, Inc. is the technology and service provider of choice powering the global financial markets. With a 40-year, award-winning history, IPC’s focus on innovation, service excellence and partnership with customers has delivered valuable solutions that set the standard for a productive, secure and compliant financial community. IPC accelerates a customer’s ability to be agile and adapt to dynamic industry requirements for counterparty and liquidity access, advanced networking capability, regulatory adherence and global compliance mandates. Headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, IPC connects a global financial services community of more than 6,000 market participants across 700 cities worldwide. For more information, visit 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.

Jersey City, NJ – IPC Systems, Inc., a leading global provider of specialized communications and managed network-as-a-service (MNaaS) solutions for the financial trading community, has enhanced its network capabilities in two major Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries – Thailand and the Philippines. IPC’s points-of-presence (PoPs) in Bangkok and Manila have been enhanced to support all of IPC’s data and voice solutions. This expansion is intended to achieve seamless access to the Connexus extranet marketplace, latency-sensitive Ethernet connectivity and MPLS corporate WAN solutions. Leveraging a unified and converged infrastructure, IPC is uniquely positioned to deliver a comprehensive and secure MNaaS data and voice product portfolio and solution set that is engineered to fulfill the growing demands of global capital market participants.

The announcement is part of IPC’s continued world-wide network expansion thus enabling Asia Pacific regional and global investors to trade equities, fixed income, FX, commodities and derivatives in the capital markets of Philippines and Thailand. MNaaS solutions are becoming increasingly important in the ASEAN capital markets to execute on a wide range of complex cross asset class trading strategies – strategies that require connectivity for the complete portfolio of trade lifecycle services, business continuity, risk mitigation risk and liquidity management.

“Firms trading in the Philippines and Thailand and are increasingly demanding access to a ready-made ecosystem of market participants and connectivity throughout the trade lifecycle across multiple asset classes,” said David Dodd, Senior Vice President, Managing Director, Asia-Pacific, IPC. “We are delighted to meet the demands of global investors by offering a comprehensive MNaaS solution that empowers them to capture alpha and manage risk in the burgeoning ASEAN markets.”

The IPC Financial Markets Network service portfolio includes the Connexus Financial Extranet, Direct Connect, and MPLS WAN data services, as well as Trader and Enhanced Voice connectivity services. IPC’s Financial Markets Network interconnects global financial centers and allows access to more than 6,300 market participant locations in over 700 cities in nearly 60 countries.

About IPC

IPC Systems, Inc. is the technology and service provider of choice powering the global financial markets. With a 40-year, award-winning history, IPC’s focus on innovation, service excellence and partnership with customers has delivered valuable solutions that set the standard for a productive, secure and compliant financial community. IPC accelerates a customer’s ability to be agile and adapt to dynamic industry requirements for counterparty and liquidity access, advanced networking capability, regulatory adherence and global compliance mandates. Headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, IPC connects a global financial services community of more than 6,000 market participants across 700 cities worldwide. For more information, visit 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.

Jersey City, NJ – IPC Systems, Inc., is proud to announce that one of the company’s thought leaders, Ganesh Iyer, IPC’s Global Director of Product Marketing, will be presenting to senior FX traders from leading buy-side institutions at the TradeTech FX Conference in Miami, FL. The event, scheduled to be held on February 22 and 23, 2016, at the Eden Roc Hotel, will focus on critical concerns facing the FX industry, such as, fragmentation of liquidity, proliferation of platforms, automated and algorithmic execution, the evolving regulatory environment and the changing market structure. During his presentation titled “Minimizing the Effects of ‘Delivering’ and ‘Derisking’ in Stressed Market Conditions”, Mr. Iyer will be focusing on the benefits of being able to access a large and diverse financial ecosystem during a selling contagion.

About IPC

IPC Systems, Inc. is the technology and service provider of choice powering the global financial markets. With a 40-year, award-winning history, IPC’s focus on innovation, service excellence and partnership with customers has delivered valuable solutions that set the standard for a productive, secure and compliant financial community. IPC accelerates a customer’s ability to be agile and adapt to dynamic industry requirements for counterparty and liquidity access, advanced networking capability, regulatory adherence and global compliance mandates. Headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, IPC connects a global financial services community of more than 6,000 market participants across 700 cities worldwide. For more information, visit 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.

Jersey City, NJ – IPC Systems, Inc. (IPC), a leading provider of global communications solutions and software for the financial services community, today announced it has completed its acquisition of Etrali Trading Solutions (Etrali), a leader in compliance and unified communications solutions. The new organization offers customers an innovative suite of compliance products, enhanced capabilities in agile network services, advanced communications software, an unparalleled global network community, and an experienced talent base dedicated to service excellence.

“I’m very excited about bringing together the complementary strengths of both companies, particularly as the financial technology sector continues to innovate at a rapid pace,” said Neil Barua, CEO of IPC. “Our customers will realize significant benefits from our expanded geographical footprint and accelerated roll-out of capabilities in compliance and security. This is a pivotal event during a transformational time in the industry. Our shared vision and decades of experience creates a best-of-breed combination – one that provides our customers with progressive solutions to meet their business challenges. I am also excited to welcome Lionel Grosclaude, current CEO of Etrali, who will join my executive team as Managing Director of EMEA and lead our newly created compliance business division.”

By uniting IPC’s award-winning roster of products with Etrali’s compliance expertise and agile service delivery, customers now receive highly differentiated connectivity solutions over a unified access architecture. The company’s enhanced, industry-leading portfolio addresses the most demanding security, compliance and productivity challenges that financial institutions face, all maintained with the highest level of support available.

IPC’s worldwide presence, together with Etrali’s European and Asia Pacific strengths, creates an expanded global footprint that provides customers access to markets in over 700 cities in 60 countries across six continents. It establishes a deep community of more than 6,000 financial services firms operating on an agile, secure and focused Financial Markets Network with multiple on-premise and cloud offerings.

The company will operate as IPC. Its global headquarters remain in Jersey City, NJ, USA, with new regional hubs in EMEA and APAC.

To view IPC CEO Neil Barua discuss this exciting news please click here.

About IPC

IPC Systems, Inc. is the technology and service provider of choice powering the global financial markets. With a 40-year, award-winning history, IPC’s focus on innovation, service excellence and partnership with customers has delivered valuable solutions that set the standard for a productive, secure and compliant financial community. IPC accelerates a customer’s ability to be agile and adapt to dynamic industry requirements for counterparty and liquidity access, advanced networking capability, regulatory adherence and global compliance mandates. Headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, IPC connects a global financial services community of more than 6,000 market participants across 700 cities worldwide. For more information, visit 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.

Jersey City, NJ – IPC Systems, Inc., a leading global provider of specialized communications and managed network-as-a-service (MNaaS) solutions for the financial trading community, has enhanced its network capabilities in five strategic markets across the United States. Additional IPC points-of-presence (PoPs) in Los Angeles, Denver, Dallas, Atlanta and the District of Columbia metropolitan area have been enabled to support all of IPC’s MNaaS solutions. This expansion includes access to the Connexus extranet marketplace, latency sensitive Ethernet connectivity and MPLS corporate WAN solutions. Leveraging a unified and converged infrastructure, IPC provides a comprehensive and secure MNaaS data and voice product portfolio that is engineered to address the exacting demands of the global capital markets.

The announcement is part of IPC’s continued efforts to expand its global network and enable capital market firms located throughout the United States to rapidly execute on a wide range of complex cross asset class trading strategies, design business continuity solutions, manage risk and source liquidity. MNaaS solutions are being deployed to address multimodal communications, collaboration and connectivity requirements across the entire capital markets ecosystem of liquidity vendors, banks, brokers, pension funds, foundations, endowments, family offices, corporate treasuries, sovereign wealth funds and insurance companies. MNaaS solution adoption continues to grow and play an increasingly vital role for asset managers, hedge funds, proprietary trading and private equity firms allowing them to focus on their core competencies by essentially outsourcing their communications infrastructure.

“A managed network-as-a-service solution offers trading firms adaptive, on-demand cross asset class connectivity solution throughout the portfolio of trade lifecycle services,” said Tim Carmody, Global Head of Product Management, IPC. “We are excited to continue to expand our comprehensive MNaaS solutions to buy side firms, regional banks and other market participants throughout the globe to serve their trade execution, risk mitigation and liquidity management needs.”

The IPC Financial Markets Network service portfolio includes the Connexus Financial Extranet, Direct Connect and MPLS WAN data services, as well as Trader and Enhanced Voice connectivity services. IPC’s Financial Markets Network interconnects global financial centers and allows access to more than 5,000 market participant locations in over 700 cities in nearly 60 countries.

About IPC

IPC is a global provider of mission-critical network services and trading communication technology to the financial markets community. With complete focus on this sector and over 40 years of expertise, IPC provides customers with integrated solutions that support traders and participants across the entire trade lifecycle, including sell-side and buy-side financial institutions, inter-dealer brokers, liquidity venues, clearing and settlement firms, independent software vendors, corporate finance departments, financial information exchange providers and market data providers. IPC’s offerings include a unified communications/application platform, award-winning trading positions, managed voice and data connectivity solutions, compliance technologies, infrastructure management and a suite of enhanced service offerings. IPC’s global reach extends to more than 60 countries – including a network of 5,000 customer sites over 700 cities and an installed base of approximately 120,000 trading positions deployed worldwide. Headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, IPC has over 900 employees located throughout the Americas and the EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions. IPC’s mission is to continually innovate to support collaboration across the global financial community and address our clients’ needs in an ever-changing landscape.

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.

New York and London – IPC Systems, Inc., a leading global provider of specialized communications and managed network-as-a-service solutions for the financial trading community, today announced that the company will host a webinar with TABB Group, the international research and consulting firm focused exclusively on capital markets to discuss the importance of connectivity and ecosystems in the financial markets.

The shifting sands of market structure, stricter risk management practices and a stronger regulatory regime are altering the landscape of the global capital markets. Every asset class has been affected and firms are now requiring increased connectivity throughout the trade lifecycle and access to a large and diverse ecosystem of market participants to successfully execute their trading strategies, mitigate risk and source liquidity.

Host Ganesh Iyer, Global Director of Product Marketing, Financial Markets Network, IPC will moderate the discussion with industry leaders from TABB Group – Anthony Perrotta and Andy Nybo – and discuss the role of connectivity and ecosystems in the generating alpha, sourcing liquidity and mitigating risk in two major asset classes – fixed income and listed derivatives.

When: Wednesday, January 20, 2016 10:30 EST (15:30 GMT)

Where: Online

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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 global provider of mission-critical network services and trading communication technology to the financial markets community. With complete focus on this sector and over 40 years of expertise, IPC provides customers with integrated solutions that support traders and participants across the entire trade lifecycle including sell-side and buy-side financial institutions, inter-dealer brokers, liquidity venues, clearing and settlement firms, independent software vendors, corporate finance departments, financial information exchange providers and market data providers. IPC’s offerings include a unified communications/application platform, award-winning trading positions, managed voice and data connectivity solutions, compliance technologies, infrastructure management and a suite of enhanced service offerings. IPC’s global reach extends to more than 60 countries – including a network of 5,000 customer sites over 700 cities and an installed base of approximately 120,000 trading positions deployed worldwide. Headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, IPC has over 900 employees located throughout the Americas and the EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions. IPC’s mission is to continually innovate to support collaboration across the global financial community and address our clients’ needs in an ever-changing landscape. For more information, visit 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.