NEW YORK — July 24, 2017 –  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.

About IPC

IPC is a technology and service leader that powers financial markets globally. We help clients anticipate change and solve problems, setting the standard with industry expertise, exceptional service and comprehensive technology. With customers first and always, we collaborate with each to understand their individual needs to help make them secure, productive and compliant within our connected community. Through service excellence, long-developed expertise and a focus on innovation and community, we provide agile and efficient ways for our customers to accelerate their ability to adapt to the ever–changing requirements for advanced data networks, compliance and collaboration with all counter-parties across the financial markets. www.ipc.com

About Waters

Each month, Waters reports and analyzes the practical implementation of financial technology in the wholesale banking and securities industries. Since its launch in 1993, financial IT professionals worldwide have relied on the magazine for its focused, in-depth coverage of financial market data and technology as well as the human issues of talent management, staff retention and compensation within the financial services community. With more than 10,000 subscribers, Waters readers enjoy the insights of CIOs and CTOs from the global capital markets. Waters is published by Incisive Media Plc. For more information, please visit www.watersonline.com and www.incisivemedia.com.

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Statement from the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River President for World Water Day, 22 March 2017

VIENNA, 22 March (International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River) – Wastewater from homes, cities, industry and agriculture flowing back to nature without being treated or reused is polluting the environment in many regions. Without proper wastewater treatment, we are losing valuable nutrients and releasing dangerous substances which is threatening human health and having an adverse effect on water resources and ecosystems.

Almost 16 million people in the Danube River Basin are not connected to public sewers and appropriate wastewater collection systems. An additional 10 million are discharging their domestic wastewater into surface waters, without treatment.

A question of adequate infrastructure

The work of the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR) has made a significant contribution to improvements in this area. Investments in urban wastewater treatment plants with minimum biological treatment technology and enhanced industrial technologies have helped decrease organic pollution significantly. Since 2005, organic emissions via wastewater have decreased by almost 50 per cent as a result of substantial development. Investments in urban wastewater treatment infrastructure have also resulted in a remarkable decrease of nutrient emissions. “Wastewater infrastructure  and wastewater collection and treatment have improved tremendously. Nevertheless, there are further  measures that can be taken and there is still room for improvement” says ICPDR President Peter Gammeltoft. By 2021, basic infrastructure facilities – either public sewer systems with adequate wastewater treatment or appropriate decentralized systems – will serve approximately 15 million inhabitants of the Danube River basin area.

Contributing to achieving Sustainable Development Goals 6 & 14

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), launched in 2015, include a target to ensure everyone has access to safe water by 2030, making water a key issue in the fight to eradicate extreme poverty. Goal 6 covers the entire water cycle; including specific targets on safely treated wastewater and good ambient water quality (6.3); another target requires safe disposal of all sewage (6.2) and another advocates integrated water resources management and transboundary water cooperation (6.5). Attaining Sustainable Development Goal 6 will ensure the safe disposal of sewage for all and, in addition, halve the proportion of untreated wastewaters and increase water recycling and safe reuse.

The ICPDR as one of few freshwater River Basin Organisations (RBOs) in the world sees its role as direct contributor to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals which are part of a global agenda for the survival of the planet. “Indeed, with its work towards the reduction of nutrient pollution in the Danube, the ICPDR is improving both the ecological status of the river and the environmental status of the Black Sea. Thus ICPDR is also contributing to the implementation of Goal 14 to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development,” said ICPDR President Peter Gammeltoft.

“We encourage you to be more water-issues aware on World Water Day and beyond! “he added.

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