Otkritie Capital Joins IPC’s Fast-Growing Financial Markets Cloud

London, UK – May 12, 2016 – 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 it continues to grow its rapidly expanding financial marketplace with the addition of Otkritie Capital to the IPC Financial Markets Network (FMN). As a result, IPC’s diverse ecosystem of market participants can reliably connect to Otkritie’s services to trade in Russian equities, derivatives and spot FX markets, and access global prime services.

“Otkritie plays a central role in the success of most institutional investors, fund managers and proprietary traders, particularly for firms interested in borrowing securities, getting margin trading facilities and having direct access to multiple asset classes and liquidity pools available on the Moscow Exchange, with a strong focus on RUB related instruments.” said Serge Alexandre, Head of International Prime Services Sales at Otkritie. “We are thrilled to collaborate with IPC to offer global investors with state-of-the-art connectivity and communications solutions for financing trades and managing risk.”

“It is our goal to provide institutional investors, corporate treasuries and fund managers with innovative solutions to source liquidity and execute compliant trades across asset classes,” said David Brown, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Financial Markets Network, IPC. “Connectivity has become a cornerstone for investors, especially for those taking short positions and seeking to amplify profits through leverage. We are delighted to welcome Otkritie Capital to our diverse and secure financial markets private cloud.”

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 across 700 cities in more than 60 countries.

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About Otkritie Capital

Otkritie Capital is a leading brokerage company with a focus on prime broking, equity, derivatives, fixed income, FX & IR, commodities and research. Otkritie helps its clients to unlock opportunities by providing innovative investment services and access to Russian markets. For more information, please visit www.otkritie-capital.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 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.

IPC Systems Appoints Tony Carriero as Chief Information Security Officer

NEW YORK – May 11, 2016 – IPC Systems, Inc. (IPC), a leading provider of global communications solutions and software for the financial services community, today announced the appointment of Tony Carriero as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). In this leadership role Mr. Carriero will be responsible for the security roadmap across all IPC products and solutions, its financial market cloud network along with IPC’s internal IT systems to support the company’s vision.

“Over the last few years IPC has experienced a tremendous amount of growth in areas both within and beyond our traditional business. As hacking incidents against financial institutions have intensified, we have made security a top priority at IPC.” said Neil Barua, IPC’s Chief Executive Officer, “We have brought many new products to market. Bringing Tony on board ensures we will continue to unite the financial community while allowing our customers to exchange information reliably within a secure and compliant environment.”

It is estimated that the four largest US financial institutions will collectively spend $1.5 billion, roughly 15 percent of the overall sector’s spend, on cybersecurity annually1. As enterprise and consumers transactions become more digitized, industry analysts have predicted the cost of data breaches will reach $2.1 trillion globally by 2019, almost four times the estimated cost of breaches in 20152.

“We operate a global financial market network that consists of over 6000 market participants in 700 cities over six continents. We are continuously taking their needs into account,” said Tony Carriero, “ As Chief Information Security Officer for IPC, we will build on the strong program already in place, and align our controls into a unified Security Framework within all our products and services. We will continue to proactively work to keep IPC a leader in security to support the rapidly evolving landscape.”

As a senior information security professional, Mr Carriero brings over 20 years’ experience implementing financial systems, and information security programs to a number of Fortune 500 Companies. Mr. Carriero’s most recent roles with Edgewater Ranzal and PwC (PriceWaterhouseCoopers) involved assisting large multi-national companies in designing their Information Security and Risk Management Programs while migrating their products to both public and private clouds. Prior to that, Mr. Carriero served as the Chief Information Security Officer for The Warnaco Group, a publicly traded manufacturing company.

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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

Sources:  1 Juniper Research, “The Future of Cybercrime & Security:  Financial and Corporate Threats & Mitigation,” May 2015;  2Forbes, 12.20.2015, “Cybersecurity Market Reaches $75 Billion in 2015; Expected to Reach $170 Billion

 

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IPC Launches Industry Leading FX Hub Solution

New York, NY – May 10, 2016 – 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 it has launched FX Hub, a low latency, co-located performance solution engineered to address the industry’s most complex trading challenges. IPC’s FX Hub is centered at the heart of the global foreign exchange markets, specifically Equinix’s International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers in New York (NY4), London (LD4), Tokyo (TY3), and Singapore (SG2) as well as other major FX centers such as Moscow, Chicago, Frankfurt and Zurich; all with access to IPC’s vast community of financial market participants and positioned locally with low latency access via IPC’s dark fiber rings to key FX liquidity providers and dealers.

The increased need for reliable connectivity to source liquidity, mitigate risk and harvest alpha in the FX markets is largely due to growth in non-dealer financial institution participation, the increased use of execution algorithms and the lack of a central marketplace. Given these market dynamics, IPC’s FX Hub offers investors:

  • Easier and faster connectivity to brokers/dealers, investment banks, prime brokers, and liquidity providers to trade effectively, achieve best execution, discover prices and minimize market impact.
  • Efficient access to market data and trade lifecycle services such as order management and execution management systems as well as data and transaction cost analysis services.
  • Improved collaboration among traders, portfolio managers and risk managers to execute investment strategies and manage risk.
  • Access to a full community of services and simplified management.
  • Comprehensive and affordable business continuity management, disaster recovery planning solutions to ensure 24/7 access to the FX markets that is underpinned by an industry leading global provider with exclusive focus on financial markets.

“Successfully trading the foreign exchange markets is challenging given the complicated market structure,” said Larry Tabb, CEO of Tabb Group, a leading financial markets research and strategic advisory firm. “There are a vast number of instruments such as currency swaps, forwards, options, indices, outrights, non-deliverable forwards and structured products along with many exotic currency pairs that are being traded by market participants. FX is not just about spot transactions or trading only G4 currencies. ”

Tabb continued “We see non-dealer financial institutions, insurance companies, corporate treasuries and brokers increasingly deploying performance-engineered managed hosting, connectivity and colocation services in order to benefit from economies of scale, access a range of liquidity venues, achieve best execution and participate cost-effectively in the global FX markets.”

“The growing participation of pension funds, insurance companies, regional banks, hedge funds and proprietary trading firms in FX has led to more heterogeneity in the markets,” said David Brown, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Financial Markets Network, IPC. “Consequently, reliable, secure and operationally resilient managed network services as well as access to an ecosystem of diverse counterparties have now become the backbone for successful FX trading.”

Brown continued “Global trade depends on efficient and accessible FX markets. Today’s announcement underscores IPC’s wholehearted commitment to serving all the participants in the global FX markets, the world’s largest and most liquid asset class, with cutting-edge solutions.”

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 across 700 cities in more than 60 countries.

 

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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

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Algomi Bets on Voice Broking

By Shanny Basar for Markets Media – first published on April 29, 2016

Algomi, the fintech company that provides a bond information network, is betting that old-fashioned voice broking will continue maintain its hold on trading in the debt market.

This month Algomi announced it is collaborating with IPC Systems, the financial markets technology and service provider, to deliver DealCall. Stu Taylor, chief executive of Algomi, told Markets Media: “Our deal with IPC means the buyside can connect to a salesperson with just one click using DealCall.”

DealCall will be integrated into Honeycomb and use IPC’s Financial Markets Cloud to enable seamless voice communication for the buy-side users of Honeycomb. When Algomi started it built internal networks for banks to connect together staff who could help transact less liquid corporate bonds but the firm has since added asset managers to its Honeycomb network so they can easily and quickly find the best bank to execute large trades.

“The partnership between IPC and Algomi brings voice trading into the 21st century,” Taylor added. “Calls can be tagged directly to trades to meet best execution requirements.”

A recent study by consultancy Greenwich Associates was cited by The Desk’s Trading Intentions Survey 2016 which found that investment on technology for buy-side trading desks fell from 36% in 2014 to 31% last year. The Desk said: “The need to support human traders in assessing the vagaries of the credit market are evident in the level of support that information around liquidity aggregation is providing. As one trader put it, ‘Old fashioned phone broking and trader relationships [are] counting more now than ever as sell-side risk taking slides still further under the burden of regulation, and balance sheet constraints.’ ”

The survey found that the platforms currently most effective at sourcing liquidity were Bloomberg and then MarketAxess as a close second, followed by Tradeweb, Algomi and then Liquidnet. The Desk survey had 70 responses from North American, European and emerging market credit desks spread across 34 investment managers, with an aggregate of €15.4 trillion in assets under management.

Liquidnet, Algomi and Neptune were also first, second and third choice for the second year running as the platforms that traders plan to use. The Desk said: “It is worth noting that many of the most successful models are not those which aggregate actionable liquidity. The services provided by Algomi, Neptune and B2SCAN all focus on the use of information to support where to trade rather than offering a venue to introduce the platforms as with request for quote systems, or any auction or order book.”

Taylor said: “The decrease in liquidity cannot be solved just by introducing new trading protocols. Liquidity can only be introduced through new information or new products such as ETFs. ETF providers have growing information needs in fixed income.”

He added that Algomi will shortly reach 200 buyside customers and is hoping to reach 300 by the end of this year. IPC has approximately 6,000 financial clients, meaning that the DealCall feature of Honeycomb will be available to a significant number of the leading firms in the bond market.

“We are continuing to focus on credit in Europe and looking to make more progress in the US,” added Taylor. “We are installing a new technology backbone which will improve speed, scalability and make it easier to add new asset classes.”

Algomi is continuing to grow despite the downturn in bank results for the first quarter of this year, particularly in fixed income, currency and commodities. Bernstein bank analysts said in a report last month that global FICC revenues have halved during the last five years.

“Banks have two choices. They can rationalise their risk-based businesses, especially in FICC, or they can be smarter and build virtual balance sheets” said Taylor.

 

Singapore Exchange Selects IPC to Manage New Hub in Chicago

NEW YORK – May 3, 2016 – 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 it has been selected by Singapore Exchange (SGX) to manage the SGX Chicago Hub, which is available at CME Group’s facility in Aurora, Illinois.

The IPC Financial Markets Network (FMN) now provides capital market participants in nearly 3,000 North American locations with secure and reliable connectivity in accessing Singapore’s financial markets while meeting regulatory requirements in doing so. The announcement is part of IPC’s continued global network expansion, empowering North American investors to directly trade equities, foreign exchange, and derivatives, and access market data regarding the Singaporean market.

“The goal of establishing a hub for SGX in Chicago is to make Asia’s financial markets more accessible to investors in North America and broaden SGX’s international footprint,” said Ng Kin Yee, Head of Market Data and Connectivity at SGX. “We look forward to more participants connecting directly to SGX through the SGX Chicago Hub.”

“We see significant demand among North American institutional investors, asset managers, hedge funds and market makers to securely and quickly access markets in the Asia-Pacific region,” said David Brown, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Financial Markets Network, IPC. “We are thrilled to collaborate with Singapore Exchange, one of the world’s most international exchanges, and operate the SGX Chicago Hub to facilitate direct access to the venue for North American investors.”

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 across 700 cities in more than 60 countries.

About Singapore Exchange (SGX)

Singapore Exchange is Asia’s leading and trusted market infrastructure, facilitating the exchange of capital and ideas to create value for people, businesses and economies. As a multi-asset exchange operating equity, fixed income and derivatives markets to the highest regulatory standards, SGX is a vertically integrated business that provides listing, trading, clearing, settlement, depository and data services. With about 40% of listed companies and 90% of listed bonds originating outside of Singapore as well as established linkages across the region and in Europe, SGX is Asia’s most international and connected exchange. Offering a full suite of derivatives products across Asian equity indices, commodities and currencies, SGX is the world’s most liquid offshore market for the benchmark equity indices of China, India, Japan and ASEAN. The exchange was one of the first globally to adopt the Principles for Financial Market Infrastructure, the first and only central counterparty in the region to be fully approved by U.S. regulators as a Derivatives Clearing Organization and a Foreign Board of Trade, and is recognized by European Union regulators for both securities and derivatives. As Asia’s pioneering central counterparty, SGX is globally recognized for its risk management and clearing capabilities. In 2015, SGX was awarded Derivatives Exchange of the Year by Asia Risk, Futures and Options World and Global Capital as well as Central Counterparty (CCP) of the Year by Asia Risk. Headquartered in AAA-rated Singapore, SGX has over 700 employees including offices in Beijing, Hong Kong, London, Mumbai, Shanghai and Tokyo. For more information, please visit www.sgx.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 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.

TRAFiX Joins IPC’s Rapidly Growing Equities and Derivatives Marketplace

New York, NY – April 27, 2016 – 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 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 partner 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 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 across 700 cities in more than 60 countries.

About TRAFiX

TRAFiX LLC is a broker-neutral technology provider that has been founded to supply cutting-edge, innovative trading solutions that address the functional & regulatory requirements of the Financial Services Industry. Our real-time, scalable products have been specifically designed to utilize the recent advancements in software development and enterprise architecture to resolve the growing challenges faced by today’s trading community. The TRAFiX product offering supports Equity, Option & Complex Option trading and includes highly customizable Order Management & Execution Management Systems, low-latency / high performance Proprietary FIX Engines and more; our architectural design allows for the continuous addition of future products and asset classes. In an industry inundated with legacy trading software, TRAFiX was established to put the power back in the hands of the Customer. For additional information or to request a demo, please contact sales@trafix.com. It’s time to Trade Up to TRAFiX

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.

IPC Thought Leader to Present at FISD Conferences in New York and Toronto

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.

IPC collaborates with Algomi to develop application to run over IPC’s Financial Markets Cloud

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.

IPC Marks Transformation and Expanded Focus on Compliance and Communications within Financial Markets Community

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.

OTC Markets Group Adds IPC as Extranet and Connectivity Provider for Market Data and OTC Link ATS

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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