Our Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer, Ganesh Iyer, shares his insights on how to gain a competitive edge in the Electronic Trading landscape in a new article on Finance Derivative.
In the article, Ganesh discusses the importance of ultra low latency, as well as how trading firms can select the right connectivity solution.
As data continues to grow exponentially and demand for better services increases, the financial services industry requires solutions that are not only precise but also adhere to jurisdictional regulations. In the second part of a two-part interview with Tech Wire Asia, our Chief Commercial Officer, David Brown, discusses how we arehandling risks and cybersecurity with increased cloud adoption.
Addressing the ongoing skills shortage the industry is facing due to the long-term ramifications of COVID-19, David discusses the additional capabilities we have built in Malaysia, developing and training employees in-house as well as appointing additional talent, further highlighting our ambitious growth plans for the region.
After a two-year hiatus, Asia travel has resumed and our Chief Executive Officer Robert Santella and Chief Commercial Officer David Brown, touched down in Kuala Lumpur on Monday 8 August, ahead of a week-long trip to the region. During the visit, Bob and David reunited with IPC colleagues, clients, partners and media in the Asia-Pacific region.
On the second day, David Brown, contributed to an exclusive two-part interview with Tech Wire Asia’s Senior Editor, Aaron Raj, to discuss APAC’s vibrant fintech ecosystem and how our cloud communications and electronic connectivity solutions are exceeding the region’s evolving demands.
Over the years, fintech has revolutionized the financial institution. Today, it’s essential that those key players leverage cloud and fintech solutions, or they will simply not be able to compete and remain relevant in the industry. With that increased adoption of technology in the financial services industry, we are ready to cater to the industry’s needs.
Since the dawn of the 21st century Corporate Social Responsibility, ethically conscious business and the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) agenda have been key drivers in Capital Markets’ investment and procurement activity.
One such partnership is that of Beeks Group, an outstanding specialist in managed cloud computing for the financial markets since 2011 and IPC, the world’s leading provider of secure, compliant communications and multi-cloud connectivity solutions for the global financial markets.
For years IPC has been investing in sustainable technologies and best practices to reduce their carbon footprint and deliver the most flexible solutions for their customers.
“Sustainability is a key factor in supplier selection for our business,” asserts Jonathon Hogg, Chief Risk Officer with IPC. “The state-of-the-art technology from Beeks enables us to nudge our customers to energy- and cost- efficient cloud trading environments.”
NEW YORK, July 15, 2022 – IPC, a leading provider of secure, compliant communications and multi-cloud connectivity solutions for global financial markets, today announced that it has once again broken its own record in the annual Waters Rankings, winning ‘Best Trading Floor Communication System Provider’ for its Unigy™ platform for the 17th consecutive time.
“It is an honor to be recognized for our Unigy solution in the prestigious Waters Rankings for the 17th consecutive year,” said Bob Santella, Chief Executive Officer, IPC. “Unigy empowers traders and all regulated users by serving their communications and collaboration needs, and this record-breaking achievement represents IPC’s ongoing commitment to industry excellence, technological innovation, and dedication to our valued customers.”
IPC’s Unigy utilizes the latest trading communications technologies and a services-oriented architecture to bring flexibility and scalability to financial organizations. The unified communications platform is designed specifically to make the entire trading environment more productive, intelligent, and efficient. Unigy enables financial organizations to enhance IPC applications or develop their own to work on the platform, giving them greater control through a fully integrated communications solution.
The Waters Rankings annually celebrate and recognize the initiatives, innovation, and achievements of the industry’s technology and data providers over the past 12 months. Voted on by thousands of end-users across the buy-side and sell-side, the Waters Rankings are a true reflection of the industry’s best-in-class service providers across 35 categories.
About IPC
IPC is a technology and service leader powering global financial markets. We help 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 help make them secure, productive, compliant, and connected.
About WatersTechnology
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.waterstechnology.com
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Despite negative sentiment across broader financial markets, increased volatility presents a host of opportunities for sophisticated investors, eager to take advantage of market fluctuations in their leveraged trading strategy. For many organizations, the turbulence across financial markets, and the black swan events occurring at alarmingly regular intervals, has expedited the necessity for natural buyers and sellers to be connected.
David Brown produced an exclusive thought leadership piece for Digital CFO Asia on the role of technology in navigating volatility, the acceleration of digital transformation across financial services, and how low-latency connectivity is fast-becoming the cornerstone of global leadership. As US stocks slide back into a bear market, and the ramifications across financial ecosystems continue to be felt, global financial market participants will need to utilize multi-cloud platform ecosystems to trade faster and become more agile to enhance competitive advantages; a reality that is being felt by both traditional financial traders and cryptocurrency traders alike.
For any capital markets firm, connectivity and communication are crucial prerequisites for success. As a leading provider of secure, compliant communications and multi-cloud connectivity solutions for the global financial market, IPC has worked hard to deliver more seamless workflows for the industry. We help clients anticipate change, and solve trading problems, setting the standard with industry expertise, exceptional service and comprehensive technology. We leverage 50 years of experience in delivering specialized communications solutions for the financial markets. Today, we’re even better positioned to align with rapidly transforming markets, and continue empowering our customers to anticipate change, now and in the future.
IPC’s suite of network services are underpinned by Connexus Cloud – a multi-cloud platform ecosystem that interconnects more than 7,000 diverse capital market participants across 750 cities in over 60 countries, including buy-side and sell-side firms, trading platforms, market centers, liquidity venues, interdealer brokers, application and market data providers, and clearing/settlement services. The sell-side leverages Connexus Cloud to connect to the buy-side community to provide trade lifecycle services and enable the execution of a range of trading strategies.
As market data volumes continue to grow, firms across the industry – both market participants and their service providers – are having to think strategically about what kind of infrastructure they need in order to accommodate this growth, particularly under peak loads, whilst optimising for high performance.
Take a look at the latest blog from TradingTech A-Team insight where our Director, Network Product Management at IPC, Richard Balmer, shares his suggestions and insights alongside a group of industry experts.
LONDON, 6th July 2022 – IPC, a leading provider of secure, compliant communications and multi-cloud connectivity solutions for the global financial markets, saw its Connexus Unigy® product named ‘Best Trading Communications Tool’ at the second edition of the European Markets Choice Awards last night.
“On behalf of everyone at IPC, we are honoured that our product, Connexus Unigy, has been named ‘Best Trading Communications Tool’ at this prestigious and competitive awards program,” said Bob Santella, Chief Executive Officer, IPC. “Offering reliable trading, communications and connectivity solutions to our clients is a vital part of IPC’s role in the global financial markets, and we look forward to continuing to innovate in this rapidly evolving space.”
Connexus Unigy is a state-of-the-art platform for trading communications and applications offering a ground-breaking, unified, integrated platform for both trading communications and compliance. In the ever-evolving environment and increased complexity of regulatory requirements, businesses can rest easy knowing that Connexus Unigy communications are inherently secure and compliant to support both regulatory and internal compliance.
Hosted by Markets Media, the European Markets Choice Awards (MCAs) recognise excellence and identify the leading companies in institutional trading and technology. The organisers evaluated achievements over the past year, innovative contributions to the industry, and future vision. The nominations were generated by the industry and the methodology for choosing winners was based on reviewing submissions, market information, and consultations with a wide range of market experts. An award ceremony took place at the Londoner Hotel in London’s Leicester Square last night.
About IPC
IPC is a technology and service leader powering global financial markets. We help 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 help make them secure, productive, compliant and connected. Visit ipc.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter (@IPC_Systems_Inc).
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IPC, a leading provider of secure, compliant communications and multi-cloud connectivity solutions for global financial markets, and Newsquawk, the market-leading multi-asset audio market data service, have partnered to launch Connexus® Broadcast.
Integrated into IPC’s world class financial markets Connexus® Cloud, Connexus Broadcast leverages Newsquawk’s team of analysts that use proprietary smart search technology to monitor and report data and news from hundreds of mainstream and social media sources. These filtered audio market data feeds are readily available as a real-time stream to any of the over 7,000 financial market participants in IPC’s diverse global ecosystem.
Connexus Broadcast is delivered via IPC’s Connexus Voice, a leading platform-agnostic voice trading ecosystem and available to over 200,000 professional traders. Institutional traders benefit from access to ‘instant’ audio news broadcasts capturing market intelligence from multiple sources, including social media feeds they might otherwise be restricted from accessing within internal infrastructures. Delivered through an institution’s existing IPC connectivity, Connexus Broadcast provides users with immediate, cost-effective access to wide and deep market-moving news that goes beyond what is available from traditional news service providers.
Expanding the range of audio market data sources and cutting delivery times increases trading and market opportunities while supporting more effective risk mitigation. Proprietary traders benefit from access to institutional grade data and efficient access to market-wide audio market data at a much lower price point and contractual commitment than traditional global publishers.
Commenting on the launch of Connexus Broadcast, Bob Santella, IPC’s Chief Executive Officer, said: “Internal technical and security restrictions on accessing social media and information platforms cause institutional traders to miss out on a huge volume of market-moving data since they must rely heavily on traditional – and expensive – financial news publishers. Similarly, buy-side traders have usually been unable to access the quantity and quality of news available to institutional counterparts. By bringing together IPC’s industry-leading cloud technology with multi-asset, multi-source audio market data and analysis, delivered directly to the trading floor, Connexus Broadcast significantly enhances trading opportunities for the global trading community.”
Mehul Patel, Newsquawk CEO, added: “We are delighted to be partnering with IPC to bring our Newsquawk audio news directly and efficiently to trading desks. Connexus Broadcast provides real-time access to trading environments without the network security constraints associated typically with new technical feeds and, at the same time, adds significant value to a service that is already benefiting traders.”
The new Connexus Broadcast service supports traders (real-time, customized and filtered news supporting position-taking), asset managers (continuous macroeconomic and geopolitical coverage informing investment decisions), brokers (better understanding of clients’ decision influencers and market-moving events) and risk and compliance teams (continuous, multi-asset data and analysis for position-keeping and P&L management).
Newsquawk’s audio service makes traders more profitable by delivering market-moving news before underlying asset prices react. Newsquawk’s expert analysts filter news from hundreds of traditional media outlets as well as all social media platforms, only broadcasting news likely to impact asset prices. Traders around the world trust Newsquawk to monitor news knowing that all they need to do is listen to the squawk service or read the headline feed to find new trading opportunities and better manage risk.
IPC is a technology and service leader powering global financial markets. We help 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 help make them secure, productive, compliant and connected.
Certain statements contained in this press release may be forward-looking statements. Any forwardlooking statements are based on current expectations, assumptions, estimates, and projections and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. Therefore, actual results may differ materially from future results expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements.
Our CEO Kurt Adams joins ICE’s Chris Edmonds on Inside the ICE House to discuss how IPC is leading the next chapter of innovation—through customer-first approach, cutting-edge technology, and a bold new vision for voice trading.
