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London and New York City – April 26, 2023 – IPC, a leading provider of secure, compliant communications and multi-cloud connectivity solutions for global financial markets, and Kaiko, a leading cryptocurrency market data provider, now offer enterprise-grade data to IPC’s Connexus® Crypto ecosystem.

Launched last year, Connexus® Crypto is IPC’s flagship solution for cryptocurrency trading and is performance engineered to support complex trading strategies. Connexus® Crypto supports cryptocurrency arbitrage, placing market participants ahead of the competition by enabling them to buy and sell a cryptocurrency simultaneously in different markets. The solution also provides users with low latency connectivity and instant access to the liquidity of several global crypto exchanges. It is underpinned by the Connexus® Cloud platform, a multi-cloud trading ecosystem connecting more than 7,000 global market participants.

Kaiko’s mission is to execute the foundation of the new digital finance economy, serving as a single source for market information from both centralized and decentralized marketplaces. For each of its enterprise clients, Kaiko builds custom data plans designed to serve those who operate at every step of the investment and investable vehicle lifecycle, from financial products issuers to venues and market infrastructure players, to both buy and sell side. Kaiko is the partner of choice for market supervision actors and market surveillance solution builders.

Following Kaiko’s integration, IPC’s flagship Connexus® Crypto trading environment will now deliver real-time stream data, including spot, and derivative. In addition to real-time prices, Kaiko will offer other products such as aggregated quotes and rates. Kaiko’s data on real-time cryptocurrency prices alongside Connexus® Crypto’s inter-exchange connectivity, rapid execution, and service reliability will enable users to implement highly efficient arbitrage and algorithmic trading strategies, perform effective risk management, investing, monitoring, and regulatory compliance activities.

“Our primary goal is to deliver continuous innovation and specialized communications solutions that align with the rapidly transforming markets. By partnering with Kaiko, we help empower market participants to trade cryptocurrencies efficiently and successfully within our robust, ultra-low latency crypto trading environment.”- Bob Santella, CEO, IPC.

 

“The fusion of Kaiko and IPC’s capabilities within the market-leading Connexus® infrastructure will support IPC’s extensive global customer base to enhance their trading activities, while also growing our mission to be the leading source of real-time information to market participants,” said Ambre Soubiran, CEO, Kaiko. “This collaboration will enable us to showcase our rich market data offering, demonstrating how it can contribute to the evolution of the digital asset economy.” 

About IPC

IPC is a technology and service leader powering the global financial markets. We leverage 50 years of experience in delivering specialized communications solutions, helping clients anticipate, change and solve problems, setting the standard with industry expertise, exceptional service, and comprehensive technology. With a customer-first mentality, IPC brings together one of the largest and most diverse global financial ecosystems spanning all asset classes and market participants. As the enabler of this ecosystem, IPC empowers the community to interact, transact and react to market changes and challenges, and we collaborate with our customers to make them secure, productive, compliant and connected. Visit ipc.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter (@IPC_Systems_Inc).

About Kaiko

Kaiko is the leading data, analytics, indices and research provider in the digital asset industry for institutional clients. Kaiko empowers market participants with accurate, transparent, and actionable financial data to be leveraged for a range of market activities. Kaiko’s mission is to be the foundation of the new digital and tokenized finance economy by serving as a single source for market information from both centralized and decentralized marketplaces. For each enterprise client, Kaiko builds custom data plans designed for backtesting, trading, risk management, analytics, valuation, research, integrations, indices, and more.

NEW YORK AND LONDON APRIL 18, 2023 – IPC Systems, a leading provider of electronic trading and infrastructure as a service solutions has announced its partnership with Celoxica, a provider of ultra-low latency market data solutions. The partnership combines the expertise of two foremost fintech firms to deliver a FPGA-powered low latency normalized market data feed across all asset classes.

The combined solution will provide Buy Side, Sell Side and Financial Markets Application providers with access to a single API multi exchange normalized market data service. With all the benefits of a managed service provider, the collaboration creates a fully hosted environment at Exchange CoLo, Proximity or Customer Specified Site.

In increasingly volatile trading environments, the solution furthers a deterministic trading approach whilst reducing overall operational complexity and overhead costs. Specifically, this benefits firms looking to manage risk with access to low-latency price discovery and proximity to key financial market locations, globally. Together, the IPC and Celoxica partnership allows data to be consumed easily from multiple markets with flexible infrastructure deployment and application ready feeds managed through a single API.

IPC’s Connexus platform is a private, secure Infrastructure-as-a-Service which utilizes globally located data centers across IPC’s global network and community. Connexus offers agility, flexibility and highly specialized configurations while maintaining an exceptional level of security, assurance and efficiency. It is designed for speed, market access, connectivity and security, all as a managed infrastructure. Customers are directly interconnected into IPC’s ready-made eco-system which connects worldwide financial centers consisting of over 200,000 users, over 7,000 locations in 700+ cities.

“Our partnership represents the next phase of IPC as a facilitator to the capital markets infrastructure and network services requirements. We are pleased to provide a low latency deterministic market data offering to our capital markets community to make it easier for firms to consume data from multiple markets while taking advantage of the benefits of a managed service provider” – said Alex Walker, Global Head of Network Data at IPC.

‘’Celoxica is proud to partner with IPC, to provide the buy and sell side trading community with ultra-low latency market data services. By combining our best-of-breed FPGA feed handlers with IPC’s best-of-breed data center technology, we are well-placed to provide clients with easy access to all market data, across multiple use cases and all market conditions, through a fully managed service and at the right price point’’ – said Lee Staines, Global Head of Sales & Client Services at Celoxica.

About IPC

IPC is a technology and service leader powering the global financial markets. We leverage 50 years of experience in delivering specialized communications solutions, helping clients anticipate, change and solve problems, setting the standard with industry expertise, exceptional service, and comprehensive technology. With a customer-first mentality, IPC brings together one of the largest and most diverse global financial ecosystems spanning all asset classes and market participants. As the enabler of this ecosystem, IPC empowers the community to interact, transact and react to market changes and challenges, and we collaborate with our customers to make them secure, productive, compliant and connected. Visit ipc.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter (@IPC_Systems_Inc).

About Celoxica

Celoxica offers the fastest, most deterministic trading and market data solutions with the lowest footprint. Our solutions include a full range of market data feed handlers for the main US and European Equities, Options, Futures exchanges and FX. Celoxica’s range of services are designed to deliver unique business advantage through a combination of leading-edge software and hardware acceleration using FPGA-based technology to offer ultra-low latency measured in single digit microsecond and ultra-high throughput, together with accelerated Market Data, Market Access and in-Line Risk. Our clients believe that speed matters and that every microsecond counts. They are typically trading firms who co-locate (or proximity host) their strategic applications in high frequency trading environments, market making, liquidity provision, algorithmic trading and smart order routing. We are also providing a single access point for brokers and their clients by handling inbound FIX, credit check and outbound native protocol to the execution venues.

IPC, a leading provider of secure, compliant communications and multi-cloud connectivity solutions for the global financial markets and trading community, today announced that the firm has won the Best Sell-Side Trading Communications System’ for its Unigy™ platform in WatersTechnology’s Sell-Side Technology Awards 2023.

IPC’s flagship solution, Unigy, has been recognized globally as the industry’s leading trading and communications platform. With more than 110,000 users, it is a widely adopted, secure, compliant, end-to-end solution that is purpose-built to address the specific needs of the global regulated financial markets community. Unigy has proven its reliability and value consistently over the past several years. It is an unparalleled, unified communications-based platform explicitly designed to make the entire trading environment more productive, intelligent, and efficient.

Designed specifically to streamline the trade lifecycle while making users more productive, compliant and efficient, Unigy uses the latest standards-based technology and a SOA-based architecture to help drive flexibility and scalability. With access to industry-leading partners and providers, the unified communications platform offers financial organizations greater control, reliability, and a highly effective integrated communications solution. In addition, Unigy offers a broad array of capabilities necessary for the surveillance, management, and maintenance of a firm’s trading communications infrastructure.

“As trading dynamics demand more nimble, flexible, and scalable solutions, Unigy continues to
empower financial markets regulated users by serving their mission-critical communication and
collaboration needs,” said Bob Santella, CEO, IPC. “This is why we are honored to receive this prestigious award that reflects IPC’s commitment to providing state-of-the-art solutions to empower firms to execute dynamic trading strategies and generate alpha.”

Hosted by WatersTechnology, the Sell-Side Technology awards recognize the leading technologies and third-party vendors in their area of expertise through an auditable and transparent methodology developed and managed by WatersTechnology’s senior journalist.

About IPC

IPC is a technology and service leader powering the global financial markets. We leverage 50 years of experience in delivering specialized communications solutions, helping clients anticipate, change and solve problems, setting the standard with industry expertise, exceptional service, and comprehensive technology. With a customer-first mentality, IPC brings together one of the largest and most diverse global financial ecosystems spanning all asset classes and market participants. As the enabler of this ecosystem, IPC empowers the community to interact, transact and react to market changes and challenges, and we collaborate with our customers to make them secure, productive, compliant and connected. Visit ipc.com and follow us on Linkedin and Twitter (@IPC_Systems_Inc).

IPC Systems, a leading provider of secure, compliant communications and multi-cloud connectivity solutions for the global financial markets, has partnered with Dream Exchange, the first majority black-owned stock exchange, in formation. Dream Exchange is in the process of obtaining approval to open a National Market System stock exchange and will also open a new type of stock exchange called a Venture exchange which will list and trade early-stage small and medium-sized company stock.   

The partnership combines IPC’s Connexus® Market Data solution and expertise with Multicast Market Data and Multicast Market Data into the Cloud, assisting the Dream Exchange in its promise to deliver fast and efficient execution, fair pricing, membership and market data. By combining IPC’s connectivity and cloud solutions, Dream Exchange will be able to access key market data sets through a network designed and optimized for participants in the capital markets.  

“IPC is privileged and excited to be part of Dream Exchange’s vision and mission to increase participation in capital markets across all sectors of society. Our ability to provide access to Multicast Market Data through our ultra-low latency connectivity is important in facilitating extended access for a purpose-driven and inclusive financial ecosystem” – Mike Smith, Director of Network Services at IPC Systems.  

“Dream Exchange is on an accelerated roadmap to opening. A key part of this has been establishing the connectivity we needed quickly, economically and robustly. Using Connexus® Cloud and working with the staff at IPC has greatly assisted us in getting this done” – Bruce Trask, Chief Technology Officer at Dream Exchange.  

Connexus Market Data, powered by the award-winning Connexus® Cloud, is accessed via a single connection. Members of the ecosystem can link to one another and seamlessly communicate, transact, receive and distribute information. Connexus Market Data customers benefit from reduced cost of access, simplified management and advanced technical expertise from IPC’s Market Data experts.

About IPC

IPC is a technology and service leader powering the global financial markets. We leverage 50 years of experience in delivering specialized communications solutions, helping clients anticipate, change and solve problems, setting the standard with industry expertise, exceptional service, and comprehensive technology. With a customer-first mentality, IPC brings together one of the largest and most diverse global financial ecosystems spanning all asset classes and market participants. As the enabler of this ecosystem, IPC empowers the community to interact, transact and react to market changes and challenges, and we collaborate with our customers to make them secure, productive, compliant and connected.

About Dream Exchange

Dream Exchange is a company currently in the process of preparing its formal application to operate a national market system stock exchange. It will be the first majority black-owned and operated company to operate a stock exchange in the history of the United States. In addition, Dream Exchange is championing the creation of a new type of stock exchange called a venture exchange, to list and trade small-to-mid-sized, early-stage company stock. Dream Exchange’s mission is to create equality of opportunity through a marketplace that instills ethics, integrity, humanity, and access into our financial markets.

IPC, a leading provider of secure, compliant communications and multi-cloud connectivity solutions for the global financial markets, today announced that Connexus Cloud has been selected as “Best Trading Platform” in the 7th annual FinTech Breakthrough Awards program conducted by FinTech Breakthrough, an independent market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global FinTech market today.

Connected to more than 7,000 capital market participants across 750 cities in 60 countries worldwide, Connexus Cloud serves as a breakthrough multi-cloud solution for the global financial markets. Buy-side firms, sell-side firms, inter-dealer brokers, liquidity venues, energy firms, trade lifecycle providers, and market data, as well as clearing and settlement firms, rely on IPC’s Connexus Cloud platform for trade execution, order routing, market data delivery, and accessing trade lifecycle services. By providing and integrating private and hybrid clouds and enabling secure access to over 550 public clouds, Connexus Cloud empowers the use of the cloud for secure, high-performance data and voice communications.

The FinTech Breakthrough Awards is the premier awards program founded to recognize the FinTech innovators, leaders and visionaries from around the world in a range of categories, including Digital Banking, Personal Finance, Lending, Payments, Investments, RegTech, InsurTech and many more. The 2023 FinTech Breakthrough Award program attracted more than 4,000 nominations from across the globe. This is IPC Systems’ fourth FinTech Breakthrough award. Connexus Cloud was named “Best Cryptocurrency Information Source” for the past three years running.