Berlin -  Chicago -  Delhi -  Dublin -  Frankfurt -  London -  Madrid -  New York -  Pisa -  Singapore -  Sydney -  Tokyo -  Toronto  
 
About ION
Overview
Trading
Pricing
Position / Risk Mgmt
Repo and Sec Finance
Listed Derivatives
Technology
Services



 

 

ION is a global market leader in providing innovative, high performance, real-time solutions across multiple asset classes for electronic trading, position management, pricing, risk management and downstream processing to clients which range from global financial institutions to leading niche financial specialists.
 
With offices in the leading financial centres of London, New York, Tokyo, Frankfurt, Paris, Madrid, Toronto and further offices in Chicago, Singapore, Ireland, Italy, India and Australia, the company has a global reach enabling it to support customers’ local needs wherever they are.
 
ION has partnered with customers in 25 different countries. Over 3000 traders use ION front end solutions worldwide daily while tens of thousands rely on the ION platform for their day to day trading.

 

Trading
The ION.NET Interface is the trading interface of the ION solution. It enables traders to access more than 100 electronic markets in a single view, using a fully customizable, user-friendly interface. The ION.NET supports market making, price taking, and RFQ or negotiation models on Cash, Derivatives, and Repo & Securities Lending markets. The MarketView platform supports integrated trading tools such as the Multi-Market Spread Trading Tool (MMS), Auto-Hedger, and Market Aggregation. From front to back office, normalized data structures allow a seamless feed of trade data from a variety of markets.

Pricing
An easy-to-use, flexible pricing interface with extensive coverage of bond types. Trader prices and derived indicators are calculated in real time. Safety checks are incorporated to prevent poor-quality quotes being submitted to the market. Any combination of a number of available pricing models can be configured for each instrument or set of instruments.		  

Position Keeping and Risk Management
Allows positions to be updated in real time as and when trades are received and prices change. Trades can be accounted for by an electronic feed and, for those trades not done electronically, there is a manual trade entry facility that can be used to account for trades. The risk management facility provides the capability to view and assess underlying exposures for an individual book or across all books for a given trading desk.

                        

Technology

The system provides a range of Open APIs for various programming languages including C, C++, and Java for easy integration of existing in-house components. Adapters for standard messaging platforms and databases are readily available