100%
Global systemically important banks
Real-time operational monitoring for cleared derivatives businesses of any size
Cross-asset, cross-currency, and cross-market
Pre-trade, at-trade, and post-trade risk management with a global view of all risk across asset classes, markets, and trading platforms in real time.
Local or global risk management
Monitor positions, P&L, and margins for 70+ exchanges globally using flexible aggregation models and views for your local or global needs.
Configurable risk measures
Monitor positions, P&L, and margins for 70+ exchanges globally using flexible aggregation models and views for your local or global needs.
Advanced analytics
Perform what-if analysis of portfolios, real-time P&L, and stress-testing, and use stored data for client behavior analysis.
Flexible and customizable
Functionality, rules, and dynamic HTML5 dashboards that you can configure for your needs.
Limit management
Smart workflows for alert management and audit trails for limit breaches.
Smart automation
Alerts, notifications, and action handlers to create smart automation workflows.
Advanced execution
Electronic execution and algo monitoring to prevent market disruption.
High performance and easy scalability
Rich APIs for real-time integration with upstream and downstream systems. High performance and high scalability to support ever-growing trade volumes.
Integration with the ION Markets ecosystem
Connect to our XTP suite for market and static data, SOD positions, intraday cash and collateral, give-ins/give-outs, allocations, drop-copy connectivity, and cleared OTC risk management.
A complete intraday dashboard for risk managers
Aggregated trade and order flows across back-offices, trading platforms, and clearing systems
User-defined risk measures
Customizable HTML5 dashboard
Who uses our products?
Business leaders
Risk leaders
IT Operations leaders
Compliance 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 high-quality client service. For example, by giving your clients self-service what-if analysis on their margin requirements.
- Manage your overall exposure at different CCPs.
- Anticipate collateral needs and be alerted when clients are approaching margin calls.
- Assure clients you’re in control of risk and actively manage positions, margin calls, and intraday exposure so that issues don’t become problems.
- Onboard more clients and support flows by offering risk managers advanced real-time monitoring.
Solution
- Differentiate yourself from your competitors, win more client business, and increase retention.
- Avoid margin shortfalls and position excesses at CCPs.
- Manage your clients’ collateral requirements efficiently and proactively.
- Guide your clients to take the right action and minimize the impacts on their portfolios.
- Boost revenue and grow your business with confidence.
- Act before a position becomes a problem, and decide when traders should stop trading based on past performance.
As a Head of Risk Management, you implement strategies and solutions to ensure your organization’s financial and operational resilience.
Situation
You need a solution to:
- Monitor client positions in real time, check Initial Margin, P&L, and positions, and alert you to limit breaches.
- See a global view of clients’ risk when offering futures and options in addition to existing business such as equities.
- Get a single consolidated view of your risk across all your trading platforms and clearing brokers.
Solution
- Anticipate issues with client portfolio intraday margin requirements or excessive market exposure. For example, perform margin calls or reduce positions to within limits.
- Minimize risk breaches, alert clients when they’re nearing a breach, and explain what’s happened.
- Provide superior client service by managing portfolios in one place with an accurate overview of risk at a firm level.
- Take full, real-time control of risk and can be alerted to exceptions across the business, and at each broker.
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 a solution to:
- Streamline the architecture for real-time risk management across the business.
- Extend the pre-trade risk capabilities of your OMS to manage ETDs without needing costly investment in new skills.
Solution
- Manage everything in one system, minimize integration points, and reduce your total cost of ownership.
- Provide a solution without the complexities of internal development and maintenance.
As Head of Compliance, you’re responsible for ensuring compliance with internal and external regulatory requirements, policies, and procedures.
Situation
You need a solution to:
- Ensure the Execution Desk is monitoring order execution in compliance with regulations like Dodd-Frank and MiFID II RTS 6.
Solution
- Protect exchanges and your clients from possible trade errors caused by misconfigured algos.
- Comply with regulations.
- Reduce reputational risks.
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
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’ve enjoyed a longstanding partnership with ION, and we’re pleased to offer our discerning institutional brokers the opportunity to migrate to GTP. As we continue to grow our global institutional business, GTP will be the primary vehicle for our institutional brokers and clients to trade electronically, using the trading GUI or the API.
- We are pleased to work with a renowned company like ION as we seek to further reinforce core business activities with advanced tools and solutions that drive efficiency through process unification and automation.
- While we continue to prioritize giving our clients access to highly experienced options brokers, this partnership with ION also establishes us as a digitally driven, retail consumer finance brand. Our goal is to combine the best of both worlds to help our clients further their investment objectives across cash equities, futures and options. After an exhaustive tender process, ION clearly stood head and shoulders above all other derivatives technology providers. We look forward to integrating the XTP Suite into OptionsDesk to complement our desk-broking services.
- Direct connectivity through the XTP Execution service will help to increase CEDX’s footprint across Europe ahead of its strategic expansion into single stock options. We are excited for ION’s clients to benefit from a transparent, efficient, and truly pan-European equity derivatives market, and accelerating towards our vision of creating the most complete equity derivatives ecosystem in Europe.
- A core pillar of my strategic growth plan for Sigma is the implementation of best-in-class systems to provide our clients with seamless execution. Sigma Broking is one of only eight Category 1 Ring Dealing members on the LME; ION’s XTP Execution further strengthens our front-office execution capabilities and infrastructure for trading commodities on the LME.
