IPC, a leading global provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for the financial markets community, has been voted by customers “Best Trading Floor Communication System Provider” in the Waters Rankings for the seventh consecutive year and twelfth time in the 14 years of the readers’ choice awards competition.

“We highly value this award, as year after year our customers recognize IPC as the top trading communications provider,” said Don Henderson, Senior Vice President, Product and Customer Success. “It’s not only a testimony to our strong partnerships worldwide, but the unwavering confidence our customers have in IPC’s innovative technology to help them meet ever-changing business and regulatory needs while continually transforming trading operations.”

IPC’s community includes more than 200,000 financial markets professionals who use its state-of-the-art solutions to exchange information and collaborate in real-time. IPC offerings include the recently introduced Unigy 360, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution performance-engineered to deliver innovation, economics and powerful new capabilities for global financial market participants. Unigy 360 offers the advantages of IPC’s industry-leading Unigy® platform for unified communications and applications along with the simplicity and scalability of a cloud-based solution. Unigy provides on-demand, secure, compliant communications to customer front, middle and back-office teams. It offers an unprecedented level of flexibility to leverage capabilities across IPC multiple endpoints like IQ/MAX Touch, PC and mobile, as well as an array of tools and solutions for financial markets communications needs.

“Waters Magazine has turned to its expert readers for the past 15 years to determine the top vendors in their respective fields for the annual Waters Rankings. For the seventh consecutive year, Waters readers have chosen IPC as Best Trading Floor Communication System Provider, and when totaled with IPC’s previous honors as the Best Trading Turret, they have won 12 times out of 13,” said Anthony Malakian, U.S. editor, Waters.

The Best Trading Floor Communication System Provider category supersedes the best trading turret provider category in the Waters Rankings, which IPC won seven of the eight years the category was on offer: 2004 through 2006 and then 2008 through 2010. The Waters Rankings are the annual readers' choice awards of Waters Magazine, which recognize the combined leadership of technological capabilities and human expertise in various categories. Qualified voters participating in the Waters rankings are from buy- and sell-side firms as well as exchanges and inter dealer brokers. More than 1,000 voters chose the best financial IT solution and services in the annual Waters Rankings.