Trade surveillance simplified, rapid, and at enterprise scale with ION LookOut

Today, volatile markets and fast-changing regulations can mean trades require time and manpower to investigate and mitigate. ION LookOut provides high-quality data management and scalable architecture to keep up with regulations and meet the needs of the most demanding trading environments.

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Always meet your compliance obligations

  • Unique breadth of product coverage

    Perform consolidated monitoring with FXGC-specific patterns, patterns dedicated to OTC derivatives, and cross-product and cross-venue analysis.

  • Configurable for accurate, effective analysis

    Configure parameters to a high level of granularity, with static and dynamic rules. Run what-if scenarios for parallel analysis on production data and prioritize alerts with risk-based indicators.

  • Fully integrated web-based case manager

    See a consolidated view across trading and market activity, enhance case management with machine learning, and get a full audit trail of actions on alerts and changes to parameters.

  • Dedicated monitoring and ingestion tools for enhanced data quality

    Manage data feeds proactively with our ETL monitoring tool and automate your syntactic and logical data validation.

A comprehensive solution that’s always aligned with regulations

Web-based case manager
Consolidated market and trading data
ETL monitoring

Who uses our products?

Business leaders
Compliance leaders
IT Operations leaders
Business leaders

As a Head of Trading, Revenue, Operations and Strategies, you’re responsible for driving the growth and success of your trading business.

Situation

You need a solution to:

  • Provide dedicated trade surveillance tools and systems.
  • Monitor and control the system feeding process.

Solution

A comprehensive, enterprise trade surveillance solution that seamlessly guarantees data quality.

Compliance leaders

As a Head of Compliance, you ensure compliance with laws, regulatory requirements, and internal policies and procedures.

Situation

You need a solution to:

  • Monitor the trading activity of clients and traders to spot
    potential market manipulation and insider dealing.
  • Provide flexible, user-friendly surveillance and presentation of key information.
  • Comply with multiple trade surveillance regulations.
  • Optimize the efficiency of your compliance team.

Solution

  • Analyze alerts faster and more accurately.
  • Take necessary actions efficiently and proactively.
  • Reduce reputational risk and avoid fees.
IT Operations leaders

As a Head of Technology Operations or IT, you’re responsible for implementing and supporting the technology infrastructure your business needs to meet its strategic goals.

Situation

You need to deploy an effective trading surveillance system that fully supports the needs of the business.

Solution

  • Reduce your total cost of ownership.
  • Go live fast with rapid deployment.
  • Minimize your internal technology and support footprint.

The facts speak for themselves

  • 100%
    Global systemically important banks
  • 100%
    S&P 100 banks
  • 100%
    FTSE 100 banks
  • 80%
    Euronext 100 banks

Award-winning industry leader

FOW Asia Pacific Awards 2024

RegTech Insight Awards Europe 2024

FinTech Global 2024

A-Team Innovation Awards 2024

Hear from our customers and peers

  • We are proud to be recognized for the third consecutive year on the esteemed RegTech 100 list. Our solutions and services simplify complex processes, boost efficiency, and enable better decision-making. We build long-term partnerships with our clients, helping transform their businesses for sustained success through continuous innovation.
    Alvise Insalaco
    Chief Executive Officer at LIST, LIST
  • We are thrilled that LookOut has won the market surveillance solution of the year in Asia. This award reflects ION’s dedication to providing innovative, cutting-edge technology that addresses our clients’ evolving needs. Our customers rely on LookOut to boost operational efficiency by reducing alert analysis time and complexity, enabling them to navigate increasingly complex regulatory landscapes.
    Mirko Marcadella
    Chief Product and Marketing Officer, List Group
  • Congratulations LIST for winning this year’s RegTech Insight Award Europe for Best Solution for Records Retention. This year’s RegTech Insight Europe awards have been extremely popular and competitive, highlighting established solution providers and innovative newcomers that help capital markets participants respond effectively and efficiently to evolving and ever more complex regulatory requirements across the global financial services industry.
    Angela Wilbraham
    A-Team
  • The judges were most impressed with LIST’s investments in its middle-office platform as well as its machine learning toolkit to continue supporting investment firms and trading venues. As integration for LIST products such as the JANUS Central Limit platform and the LookOut surveillance module progresses, ION aims to provide clients with a fully integrated front-to-back solution stack,
    Wei-Shen Wong
    WatersTechnology
  • The RegTech100 list of the world’s most innovative RegTech companies highlights the top solutions in the market today, thanks to their innovation, growth, potential cost savings, and efficiency generated for clients. ION’s XTP Risk JANUS, XTP Central Limits, and LookOut are leading end-to-end technology solutions that every financial institution needs to know about as they develop their mission-critical digital transformation strategies.
    Mariyan Dimitrov
    RegTech100

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