100%
Global systemically important banks
The complete automated equity trading software
Everything you need in one system
Manage your global order book, trading, and risk in one screen, run your institutional, systematic, private wealth, and retail businesses on one platform, and get a built-in middle office for seamless STP.
Global connectivity
Access over 6,500 buy-side customers and 600 brokers via FIX, execute orders on more than 200 equities markets, and integrate with dozens of clearing brokers and third-party systems.
Automate your order management
Automate your orders using algorithms, smart routing, and pairs trading, manage everything from the simplest to the most complex order types, and hedge using FX, ETFs, and derivatives.
Empower your clients
Deliver a differentiated and flexible service by building your own automations, and integrate your own data using our real-time APIs.
Create sophisticated multi-asset workflows
Build workflows for advanced order execution, low-latency smart order routing, algo trading, and more, and automate indications of interest and middle office flows like confirmations and allocations.
No more manual upgrades
We host your solution, delivering high performance, lower infrastructure costs, and automated system upgrades.
The trading platform to unify your operations, simplify your workflows, and boost your efficiency
Connectivity to global markets
Advanced order management
Automated multi-asset workflows
Who uses our products?
Head traders
Technology leaders
Situation
- You’re looking to grow and develop your business as competition intensifies.
- Your clients demand access to liquidity and control over execution, but your technology is blocking the way.
- You’re unable to leverage new opportunities due to slow time-to-market.
Solution
- Grow your business with our high-performance, scalable technology.
- Use advanced liquidity-seeking tools to help your clients achieve their execution goals.
- Increase your agility and reduce your time-to-market by eliminating manual processes via a feature rich, automated solution.
Situation
- You struggle to support multiple heterogeneous systems with slow, cumbersome upgrade cycles.
- Your systems lack the flexibility and scalability to support the evolving needs of your business.
- You’re striving for greater efficiency, but high costs and manual workflows are holding you back.
Solution
- Replace your legacy technology with a fast, reliable, integrated solution with frequent, automated upgrades.
- Move to a fully-hosted solution for maximum flexibility and scalability.
- Reduce your internal operating costs and grow your business by leveraging automated workflows and a fully-managed service.
The facts speak for themselves
- 100%S&P 100 banks
- 100%FTSE 100 banks
- 80%Euronext 100 banks
Many leading banks and financial institutions run on ION software
Award-winning industry leader
A-Team Innovation Awards 2025
TradingTech Insight Awards 2023
TradingTech Insight Awards 2023
TradingTech Insight Awards 2023
Hear from our customers and peers
- As the only listed securities company in Suzhou, we need technology that can simplify and automate workflows to boost efficiency and scale our business. We chose the Fidessa trading platform as it is the market leader in the equities space and the top choice for sell-side institutions.
- Effective business growth requires technology that can simplify workflows, and boost efficiency. For Peel Hunt, ION has been a trusted partner in this area for nearly two decades. The Fidessa Trading Platform is the benchmark in the equities space and the top choice for sell-side institutions. As we enter our next phase of growth, ION remains our preferred partner.
- We’ve been partnering with the ION team since 2006 for our global commodities franchise and they were the logical choice for us as we expand into equities market making. The ION Fidessa trading platform is a market leader in the equities space and is very much the platform of choice for the industry.
- Our clients want faster, more reliable access to international capital markets. We chose the ION Fidessa solution because it gives us the advanced trading workflow, high performance, and reliability at scale that we need.
- Fidessa’s approach to SOR made them stand out from the crowd this year. Liquidity capture is obviously key, but as the buy side is looking for more from their sell-side electronic desks, the importance of having a highly flexible workflow that manages the parent order over the duration of its life is an element that is often overlooked.
