Markets Trading and risk management solutions for equities, fixed income, forex trading, cleared derivatives, secured funding, and asset management.

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Workflow automation through the complete trade lifecycle

We unify your operations from front to back and simplify them across asset classes. Our solutions automate the complete trade lifecycle, help to reduce operational risk, and deliver actionable insights whenever and wherever you need them.
 
What’s more, our solutions give you critical information about your business in real time. That means you can understand your customers better than ever. And you can manage risk proactively by addressing issues before they become problems.
 
With our decades of shared experience and successful client partnerships, we’re setting new standards for performance, resilience, and innovation in capital markets technology. Our passion for what we do inspires us to constantly invest in our industry and help to shape its future.

Solutions

ION Markets solutions

ION Markets solutions automate the complete trade lifecycle, reduce operational risk, and deliver actionable insights whenever and wherever you need them.

Products

Create the solution that’s right for you by choosing from our range of products.

  • Anvil e-Trading

    Regulations, cost pressures, and uncertainty are making repo markets increasingly complex. Anvil e-Trading cuts through this complexity and helps you focus on what matters.

  • Anvil OMS

    Information overload is a real danger for repo desks. Transform this complexity into simplicity with our integrated order management solution.

  • Anvil Trade Processing

    Unify your trade processing in one solution for repo, securities lending, and collateral trading across fixed income and equities. And get instant access to critical information.

  • Aphelion

    Fast, accurate rules-based foreign exchange trading, pricing, and distribution

  • Barracuda FX

    End-to-end, modular, customizable eFX trading solutions for financial institutions operating in foreign exchange markets.

  • FI Credit

    Access all your fixed income markets in one screen. See all your data in one format. And do everything in one solution—from price discovery to trading and post-trade reporting.

  • FI Rates

    Connect to all your markets from one system.
    See all your liquidity across assets and markets in one screen.
    Easily assess different liquidity providers to ensure you choose the right one every time.

  • FI Sales to Trader

    Managing the fixed income sales-to-trader workflow for voice trading can be a complex, manual process. Digitalize and automate it with our Sales to Trader solution.

  • FI Swaps

    Connect to more than 100 IRS, bond, and futures trading venues.
    See information for diverse markets, aggregated and in one clear format. Manage innovative negotiation models like requests for markets, and compression or multi-asset lists.

  • Fidessa

    Get everything you need for equities trading in one, integrated solution— including sophisticated algo trading, order management, and seamless straight-through processing.

  • FX Operations

    Process all forex transactions, confirmations, settlements, and payments worldwide on one platform.

  • FX Trade and Risk Management

    Do all your forex trade processing and risk management across instruments and get a complete, real-time view of your business.

  • ION Desktop

    Connect any software in one user interface. Find information and complete tasks easily, with no more switching between multiple screens and windows.

  • ION Web

    ION Web standardizes the process of developing custom web applications and offers a centralized user-experience, ready-made components and widgets, and a container that can hold multiple apps.

  • LatentZero Compliance SaaS

    For asset managers, compliance is more important than ever. And more complex. Whatever the size of your business, our solution can make compliance simple.

  • LatentZero EMS Workstation

    An execution management system (EMS) that’s low cost, easy to install and upgrade, and provides instant access to the worldwide Fidessa broker network.

  • LatentZero OMS

    Fast, reliable order management is vital. To achieve it, you need the right technology. Our solution can simplify and automate your workflows and process hundreds of thousands of transactions per day quickly and accurately.

  • LatentZero Post-trade

    Many asset managers are still relying on post-trade systems that are slow, complex, and prone to errors. Our solution gives you fast, accurate, automated trade processing for all your asset classes including equities, fixed income, and ETDs.

  • MarketFactory Nexus

    Instantly and easily access foreign exchange trading venues.

  • MarketFactory Reflector

    Protect your foreign exchange trading business against real-time market and credit risk with cross-venue trade risk assessment.

  • MarketFactory Whisperer

    One trading API to access the entire FX market, regardless of location, workflow, protocol, instrument, or liquidity provider.

  • Spectrum

    A complete foreign exchange solution for brokers and wealth managers, providers of international payments and FX hedging services, and treasury teams.

  • Spectrum FX Dealer

    Spectrum FX Dealer makes it easy for customers to access your services, execute trades, approve payments, track payment statuses, and access data at their convenience using self-service features.

  • TradAir

    Everything that you need for best FX trade execution in one screen.

  • Wallstreet FX

    High-performance, real-time trade processing solutions for currency management.

  • XTP

    Scale and simplify your business for derivatives clear by processing real-time settlement, risk management, exchange and regulatory reporting.

  • XTP Clearing

    Process millions of trades per day with STP rates of over 99.99% and get visibility of your business in real time.

  • XTP Execution

    Fully automate your cleared derivatives trade workflow with integrated order management, advanced execution, and unrivaled connectivity to global markets.

  • XTP Front-to-Back Suite

    Unify your cleared derivatives execution, order management, and post-trade processing in a single, automated, real-time workflow.

  • XTP Match

    Meet all your reconciliation needs and simplify existing workflows.

  • XTP Risk JANUS

    Track your positions, P&L, and margin exposure in real time.

  • XTP Spark

    The advanced back-office trade processing platform that’s quick to deploy and simple to use.

Solutions

  • Cleared derivatives
  • Equities
  • Fixed income
  • Foreign exchange
  • Secured funding
  • Asset management
  • Technology

Awards

RegTech Insight Awards APAC 2024

Best Solution for Records Retention

TradingTech Insight Awards Europe 2024

Best Smart Order Routing Application

RegTech 100 list 2024

RegTech 100 list for 2024

WatersTechnology Asia Awards 2023

Best Algo Trading Solution

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ION LookOut named “Best Solution for Records Retention” at RegTech Insight Awards APAC 2024

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​ION wins ‘Best SOR application’ at TTI Europe Awards 2024

1 March 2024
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​ION wins ‘Best FX RegTech Tool’ at Global Finance GW Platt FX Tech Awards 2024

16 January 2024
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FinTech Global lists ION products in the RegTech 100 list for second consecutive year

6 December 2023
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Sell-side clearing businesses turn to technology to address hiring challenges

27 November 2023
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