IPC Systems, Inc., a leading global provider of specialised communications and managed network-as-a-service solutions for the financial trading community, today announced that it continues to grow its rapidly expanding and diverse financial marketplace with the addition of REDI Global Technologies to the IPC Financial Markets Network (FMN). IPC’s ecosystem of buy-side and sell-side firms can now reliably and securely access REDI’s trade management platform, supporting the entire trade lifecycle.

“In today’s environment investors and brokers require efficient and dependable access to their trading platforms,” said Michael Sirchia, Head of Infrastructure at REDI. “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.”

“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,” said David Brown, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Financial Markets Network, IPC. “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 and mitigate risk.”

The IPC Financial Markets Network service portfolio includes the Connexus Financial Extranet, Direct Connect and MPLS WAN data services, as well as Trader and Enhanced Voice connectivity services. IPC’s Financial Markets Network interconnects global financial centres and allows access to more than 6,000 market participant locations across 700 cities in more than 60 countries.