ION wins Market Surveillance Solution of the Year at FOW Asia Pacific Awards 2025

LONDON – 17 October 2025: ION, a global leader in trading and workflow automation software, high-value analytics and insights, and strategic consulting to financial institutions, central banks, governments, and corporates, announces that LookOut has been named “Market Surveillance Solution of the Year” at the FOW Asia Pacific Awards 2025. The awards, hosted by Futures & Options World (FOW), recognize excellence and achievements in the Asian derivatives industry.

LookOut is a global, multi-compliance solution for trade surveillance, record keeping, and regulatory reporting. The solution enables brokers, investment banks, asset managers, and trading venues to meet regulatory requirements across different asset classes. The product’s broad coverage – including market manipulation, insider trading, best execution and trading obligation monitoring, market-making, and market integrity surveillance – earned it the top honors.

LookOut features over 50 built-in detection algorithms and complies with global and regional trade surveillance regulations across EMEA, North America, and APAC. Over the past few years, ION has made strategic investments in artificial intelligence and machine learning, resulting in the development of a Machine Learning Toolkit (MLT). LookOut used the toolkit to build a Machine Learning for Alarm Classification (MLAC) module, streamlining alert triage and case management, and significantly reducing the time compliance teams spend on analysis.

Mirko Marcadella, Head of Product for Risk & Market Surveillance Solutions in Markets , ION, said: “We are honored that our LookOut solution has been recognized as the Market Surveillance Solution of the Year. This award reflects our commitment to delivering best-in-class technology that empowers our clients, in Asia, as well as globally, to navigate complex regulatory challenges. Over the past few years, we’ve significantly expanded our investment in AI and machine learning. Combined with native integration across other ION solutions, these innovations have strengthened our market presence and helped our clients streamline surveillance operations, reduce response times, and improve overall efficiency.”