IPC Systems Completes Acquisition of Etrali Trading Solutions

Communications meets compliance

IPC Systems(IPC), a provider of global communications solutions and software for the financial services community, announced it completed its acquisition of Etrali Trading Solutions (Etrali), a compliance and unified communications solutions vendor. The new organization offers traders and other financial professionals a full suite of compliance products, agile network services, advanced communications software and access to a global network community.

IPCs worldwide presence, together with Etralis European and Asia Pacific strengths, creates an expanded global footprint that provides customers access to markets in over 700 cities in 60 countries across six continents. It establishes a deep community of more than 6,000 financial services firms operating on an agile, secure and focused Financial Markets Network with multiple on-premise and cloud offerings.

Our customers will realize significant benefits from our expanded geographical footprint and accelerated roll-out of capabilities in compliance and security, said Neil Barua, CEO of IPC. I am also excited to welcome Lionel Grosclaude, current CEO of Etrali, who will join my executive team as Managing Director of EMEA and lead our newly created compliance business division.

By uniting IPCs roster of products with Etralis compliance expertise and agile service delivery, customers now receive highly differentiated connectivity solutions over a unified access architecture.

The company will operate as IPC. Its global headquarters remain in Jersey City, NJ, USA, with new regional hubs in EMEA and APAC.