In Move to Further Asia Pacific Financial Markets Expansion, IPC Announces Plans to Introduce Unigy 360

Highly anticipated mid-year introduction of Software-as-a-Service cloud-based platform will meet growing unified communications needs of regulated users in the region

HONG KONG, Jan. 9, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- IPC, a leading global provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for the financial markets community, today announced that it plans to introduce Unigy 360, its highly anticipated Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution, to the Asia Pacific (APAC) market later this year. IPC has been at the forefront of innovative communications solutions that meet the needs of financial market participants throughout Asia.

"With greater collaboration and mobility among front, middle and back offices a critical dynamic for an expanding population of regulated users in Asia, now more than ever financial market participants in the region will be able to benefit from the unified communications Unigy 360 enables through a single platform," says David Dodd, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Asia-Pacific, IPC. "In addition, IPC's solutions have the potential to provide compliant communications and recording systems management. As a result, customers can rely on holistic and secure solutions to further their business strategy in a digital age."

Unigy 360 is a SaaS solution performance-engineered to deliver innovation, economics and powerful new capabilities for global financial market participants. Unigy 360 offers the advantages of IPC's industry-leading Unigy® platform for unified communications and applications along with the simplicity and scalability of a cloud-based solution. The solution also includes the Unigy 360 application, which provides reliable, secure and "anytime, anywhere, any device" access to counterparties, liquidity, and trade lifecycle services.

The broad range of market participants that implement the Unigy 360 solution become an integral part of one of the world's largest and most diverse financial ecosystems comprising buy-side firms, sell-side firms, inter-dealer brokers, listed and OTC liquidity venues, trade lifecycle service providers, market data vendors and clearing/settlement firms. All regulated users in a firm, including traders, researchers, portfolio managers, risk managers, compliance professionals, technologists, settlement personnel and operations staff, can leverage Unigy 360 for mission-critical external communications and internal workflows.

IPC has offices throughout the Asia Pacific region, including Beijing, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Melbourne, Mumbai, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Taipei, and Tokyo. 

About IPC
IPC is a technology and service leader that powers financial markets globally. We help clients anticipate change and solve problems, setting the standard with industry expertise, exceptional service and comprehensive technology. With customers first and always, we collaborate with each to understand their individual needs to help make them secure, productive and compliant within our connected community. Through service excellence, long-developed expertise and a focus on innovation and community, we provide agile and efficient ways for our customers to accelerate their ability to adapt to the ever-changing requirements for advanced data networks, compliance and collaboration with all counterparties across the financial markets. www.ipc.com

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.