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HONG KONG – IPC Systems, Inc., is proud to announce that two of the company’s thought leaders will present and participate in panel discussions at conferences in Hong Kong and Japan.

IPC’s Ganesh Iyer, Global Director of Product Marketing, Financial Markets Network, will participate in a panel consisting of industry experts in a session called “The Move to Screen Trading – Is it the Right Time?” at the Asia-Pacific Financial Information Conference (APFIC) to be held November 10-12, 2015, at the Renaissance Hong Kong Harbour View Hotel in Hong Kong. APFIC focuses on the opportunities and issues impacting the Asia-Pacific region’s financial information sector.

IPC will also present and participate in a panel at the FISD Japan conference to be held November 17, 2015 at Deutsche Bank’s Tokyo office. IPC’s Danny Lee, Director Asia-Pacific, Financial Markets Network will participate in a panel of industry leaders in a session called “Changes to the Japan Colocation Scene”. Also at the event, IPC’s Ganesh Iyer will explore how a Managed Network-as-a-Service (MNaas) model can address the communication, collaboration, and connectivity needs of market participants in a presentation titled “Successfully Generating Alpha and Mitigating Risk in the Financial Markets”.

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.

JERSEY CITY, NJ – IPC Systems, Inc., is proud to announce that one of the company’s thought leaders will be leading panel and roundtable discussions at the World Financial Information Conference (WFIC). The event, to be held October 4-7, 2015, at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, is the only global event that focuses on the sourcing, compliance and delivery of financial information.

IPC’s Ganesh Iyer, Global Director of Product Marketing, will moderate a panel consisting of industry experts in a session called “The Evolving Fixed Income Landscape: Technology and Market Data Enabling an Ecosystem” on October 5, 2015 and lead a roundtable discussion titled “Managed Network-as-a-Service: Creating a Connected Ecosystem of Market Participants” on October 6, 2015. A push towards greater transparency, stricter risk management practices and a stronger regulatory regime are changing the landscape of the global fixed income markets. The panelists will discuss how technology and market data can be leveraged to harvest alpha and manage risk in the rapidly evolving fixed income asset class. The roundtable discussion will explore how a Managed Network-as-a-Service model can address the communication, collaboration, and market data needs of trading firms.

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.

Jersey City, N.J – IPC Systems, Inc., a leading global provider of specialized communications solutions for the financial trading community, today announced they have ranked 31st on the 2015 IDC Financial Insights FinTech Rankings. The most comprehensive vendor ranking within the financial services industry, the annual IDC FI FinTech Rankings is based on 2014 calendar year revenues attributed to financial institutions.

“The financial markets are always searching for better ways of doing business. IPC’s goal is to provide our customers with the technological tools to stay competitive and maintain their edge in the financial services,” said Michael Speranza, Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Marketing, IPC. “Our continued inclusion on the FinTech list is confirmation of our commitment to our global customer community and how IPC’s advanced technology, dedicated service, and persistent innovation continues to exceed their needs.”

 

“The IDC Financial Insights FinTech Rankings are a global measure of success in the financial services technology industry, and we congratulate this year’s Top 100 FinTech companies and the Top 25 Enterprise companies on their prominent positioning,” said Karen Massey, Senior Analyst for IDC Financial Insights. “These companies have demonstrated commitment and success in supplying innovative and efficient technology to our industry.”

IPC is a leader in the financial services industry, providing communications and compliance trading solutions, network connectivity, and managed services to organizations of all sizes across the globe. IPC brings next-generation products and decades of expertise to their customers, incorporating interoperability with existing systems while helping firms transform their workflow. IPC enables traders using IPC technology to be significantly more productive and connected than ever before, while making their operations much more profitable.

The annual IDC FI FinTech Rankings has become an important measure of the health and direction of technology in the industry and the emergence of innovative solutions from new players. In addition, the IDC FI FinTech Rankings serve as a critical tool for financial services institutions to use during strategic planning and to review whenever they consider new investments in 3rd party solutions. IDC Financial Insights publishes a comprehensive report about the year’s findings that is available to view or download here.

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 more than 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 nearly 5,000 customer sites across 700 cities and an installed base of more than 120,000 trading positions deployed worldwide. Headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, IPC has more than 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.

About IDC Financial Insights

IDC Financial Insights assists financial service businesses and IT leaders, as well as the suppliers who serve them, in making more effective technology decisions by providing accurate, timely, and insightful fact-based research and consulting services. Staffed by senior analysts with decades of industry experience, our global research analyzes and advises on business and technology issues facing the banking, insurance, and securities and investments industries. International Data Corporation (IDC) is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology market. IDC is a subsidiary of IDG, the world’s leading technology, media, research, and events company. For more information, please visit www.idc.com/financial, email info@idc-fi.com, or call 508-620-5533. Visit the IDC Financial Insights Community at http://idc-community.com/financial.

Jersey City, NJ – 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 ecosystem of capital market participants with the addition of Activ Financial to the IPC Financial Markets Network. Activ Financial is a global provider of real-time, multi-asset financial market data and solutions with coverage spanning more than 200 equity and derivatives exchanges around the world.

In today’s ever-changing capital markets landscape, reliable connectivity throughout the trade lifecycle and the ability to rapidly access a ready-made ecosystem of counterparties, liquidity venues and trade lifecycle services have become the most critical elements for the investor community to efficiently generate superior risk-adjusted returns while mitigating operational, market and business risks. Successful institutional investors, asset managers, hedge funds and brokers are now deploying a Managed Network-as-a-Service (MNaaS) model to access global market data to execute complex trading strategies and harvest alpha.

“Both buy-side and sell-side firms are increasingly demanding adaptive, on-demand connectivity to access market data from liquidity venues around the world,” said Frank Piasecki, President, Activ Financial. “We are thrilled to partner with IPC to expand our reach and offer our market data solutions to a wider community of capital market participants.”

 

“Access to timely market data from a wide range of liquidity venues and across multiple asset classes is critical to the successful execution of trading and risk management strategies of our diverse investor community,” said David Brown, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Financial Markets Network, IPC. “We are excited to welcome Activ Financial, a leading provider of reliable global market data, to our ecosystem of capital market participants.”

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

About Activ Financial

ACTIV is a global provider of real-time, multi-asset financial market data and solutions. ACTIV offers neutral, managed services for buy and sell-side firms and technology providers seeking a complete market data solution that encompasses both global content management and data delivery. With coverage spanning more than 200 equity and derivatives exchanges around the world, ACTIV is the only truly end-to-end, independent market data utility in the industry. Founded in 2002 by market data specialists, the firm is privately owned and has offices in Chicago, New York, Tokyo, Singapore and London.

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.

Jersey City, NJ – IPC Systems, Inc. (IPC), a leading global provider of specialized communications solutions for the financial services community, today announced that it has made a binding proposal to combine the businesses of IPC and Etrali Trading Solutions (Etrali), a leading provider of compliance and unified communication solutions.

IPC and Etrali have developed complementary businesses that provide cutting-edge technology and services required in the global financial markets. The proposed combination would enable the companies to further advance their strategic visions and growth plans to offer the most comprehensive solutions to the global financial community they both serve.

Executive Management of both companies are supportive and excited by the future project and the opportunity to create greater value for the global financial community.

The completion of the proposed transaction is subject to information consultation with Etrali’s Works Council and other customary closing conditions. IPC has been granted an exclusive negotiating period by Etrali’s shareholders.

About Etrali

Etrali Trading Solutions is the global compliance & unified communication services integrator for trading. Employing over 500 people in major financial centres, the company, which empower business transformation and meet changing market requirements, is supported by a global partner network of distributors in 50 countries.

Founded in 1965, Etrali Trading Solutions was acquired by The Gores Group, a private equity firm in 2013. With longstanding experience in the trading industry, the company brings innovative solutions and the highest quality service focusing on building long-term partnerships with customers. It provides innovative and optimised solutions over its dedicated trading network to a community of more than 2,000 network member organisations, encompassing buy-side and sell-side institutions and trading venues.

Etrali Trading Solutions also offers state of the art, flexible, unified voice trading solutions and compliance products including movable recording and business continuity capabilities.

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 more than 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 nearly 5,000 customer sites across 700 cities and an installed base of more than 120,000 trading positions deployed worldwide. Headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, IPC has more than 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.

Jersey City, N.J – IPC Corp., a leading global provider of specialized communications solutions for the financial trading community, today announced the appointment of two accomplished technology and business leaders to its parent’s Board of Directors. Mark Adams, Chief Development Officer of Equinix, and Marc Lefar, former Chief Executive Officer of Vonage, will serve as independent directors. Mr. Adams and Mr. Lefar will join Neil Barua and representatives from Centerbridge Partners on the Board of Directors.

“We welcome Mr. Adams and Mr. Lefar to our Board of Directors,” said Neil Barua, IPC’s Chief Executive Officer. “Mr. Adams and Mr. Lefar are respected leaders and mentors, with great vision and focus that have led their respective companies to strong and sustained business growth. It is exciting to welcome new members to the board who bring with them a fresh perspective. The benefit from their combined expertise will help us continue supporting IPC’s ongoing growth and innovation.”

Mr. Adams is the Chief Development Officer for the data center services company Equinix, where he is responsible for developing the company’s data center and services strategy. Prior to Equinix, Mr. Adams was the Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy for Electronics for Imaging, Inc. (EFI), where he led a series of acquisitions and equity investments that launched EFI into digital inkjet printing. In addition, Mr. Adams has founded and been CEO of four companies in wireless networking, digital music, IPTV, and a venture capital fund for direct investment. Mr. Adams started his career as a consultant with McKinsey & Company.

Mr. Lefar was most recently the Chief Executive Officer of Vonage, a position he held from 2008 until the end of 2014. He also serves as a member of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, appointed by President Obama in 2011. Before joining Vonage, he was the Chief Marketing Officer of Cingular Wireless, now AT&T Mobility, responsible for all aspects of marketing strategy and execution. Mr. Lefar played a major leadership role in the acquisition and successful integration of AT&T Wireless into Cingular in 2005. Mr. Lefar’s career in the telecommunications industry started with GTE Wireless, where he was Vice President of Marketing and helped to merge GTE with Bell Atlantic to form Verizon. Mr. Lefar is a frequent speaker on the topics of Global Commerce and Strategic Marketing and serves on the Advisory Board of the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia.

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 more than 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 nearly 5,000 customer sites across 700 cities and an installed base of more than 120,000 trading positions deployed worldwide. Headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, IPC has more than 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.

Jersey City, NJ – 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 acquired ASPone Networks, a global voice and data network provider to the financial markets. IPC and ASPone’s complementary customer bases, market focus and solution synergies enable IPC’s Financial Markets Network to uniquely offer highly differentiated data and voice connectivity solutions to the global financial industry.

ASPone was founded in 2005 by Patrick McGrath, Arthur Hughes and Sina Hakman as a one-stop shop service provider of IT solutions for the financial markets. Today’s announcement reinforces IPC’s commitment to delivering best-of-breed network solutions that offer market participants adaptive, on-demand connectivity throughout the trade lifecycle and across asset classes. Capital market firms are continually seeking ways to rapidly access liquidity venues, counterparties, brokers/dealers, institutional investors, trade lifecycle services and market data. Through this acquisition, IPC expands its financial ecosystem of 5,000 locations into high-growth markets around the world and strengthens its global capabilities to provide capital market participants with even greater levels of resiliency and reliability.

“The strategic decision to acquire ASPone is driven by our commitment to empower our global customers, offering them faster and more direct access to the markets they trade in, coupled with the highest levels of service and support available in the industry,” said Neil Barua, Chief Executive Officer, IPC. “We believe that the combined IPC and ASPone business will create tremendous value for customers of both organizations and enhance our ability to deliver industry-leading managed network-as-a-service solutions.”

 

“Integrating with a larger, successful organization like IPC provides the ASPone Networks team with the resources and global reach to accomplish its goals of continued growth and support of existing and new clients,” said Patrick McGrath, Chief Executive Officer, ASPone. “IPC is positioned perfectly to best serve our customers moving forward and offer employees additional opportunity.”

 

IPC looks forward to welcoming the ASPone employees to its global team and to onboarding and supporting all ASPone clients, while providing the opportunity for these firms to take advantage of its broader Financial Markets Network portfolio and global reach.

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

About ASPone

ASPone is specialized in the development and provision of technology and communication based solutions for the finance industry. It has a broad international presence with offices in Istanbul, Moscow, Singapore, Hong Kong and London. The company has deep expertise in fast, high-volume, highly robust transactional systems tailored to the needs and constraints, including compliance, of financial companies. ASPone is organized around two divisions: (i) a systems division that sells trading solutions, as well as architecting, developing, maintaining and/or hosting bespoke financial software solutions, and (ii) a networks division that sells trader voice and data connectivity solutions to financial institutions.

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 more than 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 nearly 5,000 customer sites across 700 cities and an installed base of more than 120,000 trading positions deployed worldwide. Headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, IPC has more than 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.

Jersey City, N.J. – IPC Systems, Inc., a leading provider of mission-critical voice and electronic communication solutions to the world’s top financial services firms and global enterprises, today announced that OTR Global, a marketplace research and channel intelligence firm, has enhanced both the business continuity and efficiency of its trading communications infrastructure by consolidating trader voice and data services with IPC.

OTR Global’s move to a new location presented an opportunity for the firm to investigate technologies to maximize the performance of its recently constructed disaster recovery site and provide better business continuity planning (BCP). By displacing their legacy voice infrastructure with IPC’s Trader Voice and Enhanced Voice Services (EVS), OTR Global not only achieved its BCP goal, but also transitioned from a multi-vendor environment to a single source provider – making their system easier to manage and maintain.

Additionally, OTR Global selected IPC’s Connexus Financial Extranet to provide the reach OTR Global needs for data services to capital markets worldwide at a cost savings.

“It means a lot to us to not affect any trader should we have an outage. So we were looking to have greater redundancy – making sure our trading floor is operating 100 percent of the time,” says Robert Benning, senior systems administrator, OTR Global. ”IPC offered us highly available, cost-effective and secure lines of communication so our traders can deliver unsurpassed value to our institutional investors. IPC covered all the bases the competition didn’t.”

 

“Additionally, OTR Global gains peace of mind with a more resilient network infrastructure,” says Dave Brown, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Financial Markets Network, IPC. “With a single source provider for existing and future services, OTR Global simplifies billing and system management and significantly reduces costs for network services.”

Trader Voice, EVS and Connexus Financial Extranet services are part of IPC’s Financial Markets Network portfolio of solutions, which also includes Direct Connect and Managed VPN. IPC’s Financial Markets Network interconnects global financial centers and allows access to approximately 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.

About OTR Global

OTR Global is among the industry’s most respected providers of marketplace and channel intelligence for institutional investors. The firm uses its global platform, channel research and client events to find intelligent, investible insights from around the world. Today, OTR Global has extensive reach, with offices in North America, Europe and Asia, as well as more than 130 research personnel in 18 countries with sources in more than 50 countries. For nearly 20 years, the firm has established long-lasting relationships with many of the largest and best-known mutual funds and hedge funds in the industry. OTR Global provides its research and other essential information to clients through syndicated research reports; notes, alerts and snapshots; custom projects and exclusive marketing events.

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, N.J – July 17, 2015 – IPC Systems, Inc., a leading global provider of specialized communications solutions for the financial trading community, has once again been voted “Best Trading Floor Communication System Provider” in the Waters Rankings. This marks the fifth consecutive year IPC has won the category in its current incarnation. In the category’s previous incarnation as the best trading turret provider award, IPC won six out of the seven years it was offered: from 2004 through 2006 and then 2008 through 2010.

“Our customers, industry leaders and experts have all once again done us the distinct honor of voting us as the best trading floor communications system provider,” Michael Speranza, senior vice president, Corporate Strategy and Marketing, IPC, said. “Our global customer community continues to affirm that when it comes to meeting their needs, IPC’s advanced technology, dedicated service, and continual innovations are of timeless value.”

IPC accounts for more than 120,000 of the world’s trading turret positions. Unigy®, IPC’s cutting edge next generation unified trading communications platform, speeds collaboration between traders and the trade support teams across middle and back offices with unprecedented flexibility, scalability, and adaptability. Unigy’s interoperability allows it to work with existing systems such as IQ/MAX turrets, PBX phone systems and voice recording equipment to help trading firms of every size transform their workflow, making traders significantly more productive and their operations much more profitable. Unigy is live at more than 1,000 customer sites globally, including installations at more than 50% of the 2014 Top 25 banks*.

 

“What we’ve managed to achieve over the last decade is nothing short of remarkable and with the support of our customers, we have every intention of making IPC’s next era spectacular,” said Speranza. “We will continue to provide our customers with the technology that grants them competitive advantage in their operations and will continue to provide the service and commitment they deserve.”

 

“Over the last 13 years, Waters Magazine has turned to its expert reader base to determine which vendors lead in their respective fields for the annual Waters Rankings. Waters readers have selected IPC as the Best Trading Floor Communication System five times in a row, and when combined with IPC’s previous victories in the Best Trading Turret award, they have ranked 11 times out of 12,” said Anthony Malakian, US editor, Waters.

The Waters Rankings are the annual readers’ choice awards of Waters magazine, which recognize the combined leadership of technological capabilities and human expertise in each category. Qualified voters from buy- and sell-side firms as well as exchanges and inter dealer brokers. More than 1,000 voters chose the best financial IT solution and services in the annual Waters Rankings.

*The Top 25 banks of the Top 1000 World Banks ranking is generated by The Banker Database, and published in The Banker July edition.

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

About Waters

Each month, Waters reports and analyzes the practical implementation of financial technology in the wholesale banking and securities industries. Since its launch in 1993, financial IT professionals worldwide have relied on the magazine for its focused, in-depth coverage of financial market data and technology as well as the human issues of talent management, staff retention and compensation within the financial services community. With more than 10,000 subscribers, Waters readers enjoy the insights of CIOs and CTOs from the global capital markets. Waters is published by Incisive Media Plc. For more information, please visit www.watersonline.com and www.incisivemedia.com.