IPC Partners With REDI to Enhance its Secure Financial Markets Cloud

IPC Systems, Inc., a provider of specialised communications and managed network-as-a-service solutions for the financial trading community, announced today that it has added REDI Global Technologies to the IPC Financial Markets Network (FMN), in a move aimed at expanding its diverse financial marketplace.

We are delighted to collaborate with REDI to provide cutting-edge solutions to our diverse community of market participants.

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David Brown, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Financial Markets Network, IPC, said: “Institutional investors, asset managers, hedge funds and brokers continue to demand secure and compliant connectivity solutions to access counterparties, trade lifecycle services and market data. We are delighted to collaborate with REDI to provide cutting-edge solutions to our diverse community of market participants and empower them to generate alpha, source Liquidity Liquidity The term liquidity refers to the process, speed, and ease of which a given asset or security can be converted into cash. Notably, liquidity surmises a retention in market price, with the most liquid assets representing cash.The most liquid asset of all is cash itself.· In economics, liquidity is defined by how efficiently and quickly an asset can be converted into usable cash without materially affecting its market price. · Nothing is more liquid than cash, while other assets represent The term liquidity refers to the process, speed, and ease of which a given asset or security can be converted into cash. Notably, liquidity surmises a retention in market price, with the most liquid assets representing cash.The most liquid asset of all is cash itself.· In economics, liquidity is defined by how efficiently and quickly an asset can be converted into usable cash without materially affecting its market price. · Nothing is more liquid than cash, while other assets represent Read this Term and mitigate risk.”

IPC’s Financial Markets Network interconnects global financial centres and allows access to more than 6,000 market participant locations in over than 60 countries. The IPC Financial Markets Network service portfolio includes the Connexus Financial Extranet, Direct Connect and MPLS WAN data services, as well as the Trader and Enhanced Voice connectivity services.

REDI, one of the industry's first providers of trading technology, allows users to execute everything from simple single stock trades to complex strategies across markets and time zones and manage their risk throughout the trade lifecycle via its modular, end-to-end trade management platform.

Further commenting on the collaboration, Michael Sirchia, Head of Infrastructure at REDI, said: “In today’s environment investors and brokers require efficient and dependable access to their trading platforms. We are pleased to partner with IPC to expand the reach of our industry-leading trade management platform, which allows clients to trade any exchange-traded instrument in virtually any market, with any counterparty, globally.”