IPC, a trading communication and networking solutions vendor, is working with two cutting-edge technology providers — Digital Reasoning and OpenFin — in an effort to help financial services firms take steps to update legacy IT infrastructures and improve their productivity. The latest collaboration is with Digital Reasoning, an artificial intelligence (A.I.) solutions provider. The new… Read More >>
IPC & Cloud9 Collaborate to Advance Voice-Trading
In a collaboration reflecting the complementary nature of their businesses, IPC, a voice-based trading communications and networking vendor, is working with Cloud9 Technologies, a cloud-based communications provider, to offer unified solutions for endpoint connectivity, mobility, advanced data analytics and business continuity planning, officials say. “IPC and Cloud9 have each been listening to, and are keenly… Read More >>
IPC Gets Exclusive Rights via Investment in GreenKey
A voice communication and networking solutions vendor, IPC has made an investment in GreenKey Technologies, maker of natural language processing offerings, that will give IPC exclusive rights to GreenKey’s machine learning voice technologies, officials say. Both vendors decline to disclose the amount of the “strategic investment.” The IPC investment follows closely a two-year, co-development effort… Read More >>
Bluerock to Use ALPS Advisors for Real Estate Fund
ALPS to Assist Fast-Growing Bluerock Fund Bluerock Capital Markets, the managing broker-dealer for Bluerock Real Estate, will be using fund administrator ALPS Advisors, Inc. to service Bluerock’s Total Income + Real Estate Fund (TI+), regarded as a fast-growing interval fund, with approximately $1.2 billion assets under management, officials say. The Bluerock TI+ fund “offers individual… Read More >>
Object Trading Up to Speed on SGX’s Titan Platform
Object Trading DMA Coordinated with Titan A vendor of multi-asset trading systems, Object Trading, reports that its services will work with the Singapore Exchange’s (SGX) latest trading platform, Titan, based upon Nasdaq’s Genium INET platform. In conjunction with Titan, Object Trading will handle market data, order execution and pre-trade risk constraints for its clients… Read More >>
Vestmark Launches Robo Advice Platform
Vestmark Targets Brokers, RIAs, Asset Managers & Banks Wealth management technology vendor Vestmark is launching a hybrid “robo service” that blends human and automated advice delivery via robo-advice platform. The VestmarkONE Robo Solution has been designed to help advisors who need digital support via a turnkey offering. The vendor is targeting broker/dealers, registered investment advisors… Read More >>
IPC Buys Etrali from the Gores Group
Once fierce competitors in the trading turret business, IPC Systems and Etrali Trading Solutions are becoming one company as a private equity firm, the Gores Group, has sold Etrali to IPC, officials say. IPC and Gores Group officials decline to reveal the commercial terms of the acquisition. The Paris-based Etrali is a provider of voice… Read More >>