Waters Rankings 2023: Best trading floor communication system provider—IPC Systems

Overview

IPC’s Unigy platform is a software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based unified communications and applications platform providing users with compliance, security, and control. It addresses an increasing trend accelerated by the global pandemic, for secure, efficient, and compliant remote access to trading environments, and specifically for unified communications solutions that facilitate efficient and secure communication in and across multiple channels. 

The solution

Unigy combines the latest trading communications technologies with a service-oriented architecture in a unified communications platform, designed to make the entire trading environment more productive, intelligent and efficient. Unigy enables financial organizations to enhance various IPC applications and to develop their own apps on the platform, creating an integrated, flexible and scalable trading communications environment. IPC’s Connexus Unigy offering delivers the advantages of “enterprise Unigy” through a private cloud. 

Secret sauce

IPC is looking to empower its substantial and growing user community to work smarter, not harder. The firm’s cloud-based Connexus Unigy offering builds on the success of its flagship the Unigy offering. IPC’s ability to flex and scale solutions in an environment of constant change allows its users to remain nimble, agile, and competitive. 

Recent milestones

• Addressing growing demand from the buy and sell side to embrace digital technologies with new cloud and SaaS offerings
• Service enhancements to IPC’s Connexus Cloud infrastructure, leveraging its flagship communications platform and global network of datacenters to deliver flexible, customizable, and adaptive communications solutions to customers globally
• Delivering institutional-grade market access and intelligence to buy-side customers through Connexus Broadcast (in partnership with Newsquawk) 

Future objectives

IPC is committed to continuing innovation in communications technologies and to the expansion of its global trading network of 200,000 trading counterparties, including new digital asset and crypto segments. Maintaining the quality of its solutions is a focus for the business and it continues to seek out synergies in businesses, technologies and products that might further enhance its customer-first value proposition for global markets connectivity and trading communication efficiency.