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Company announcement/devops

ION champions global tech talent with inaugural hackathon

ION, a global provider of trading, analytics, business information and risk management solutions for capital markets, commodities, and treasury management, launched its inaugural global hackathon initiative, ‘ION<athon> 1.0’, in partnership with HackerEarth.

17 February 2022

Company announcement/markets

Peel Hunt signs renewal for ION’s Fidessa Trading Platform

ION Markets, a global provider of trading, analytics, and risk management solutions for capital markets, today announces that leading broker and market maker Peel Hunt has selected ION as a long-term partner to grow its equity market making business further in European markets, using ION’s Fidessa Trading Platform.

18 January 2022

Company announcement/markets

ION Markets delivers trading connectivity for Trumid

ION Markets, a leading global provider of trading solutions for capital markets, has upgraded its connectivity to support Trumid’s Attributed Trading, a disclosed dealer-to-client negotiation protocol, through the ION Credit solution.

06 January 2022

Company announcement

ION Derivatives Global Trading Platform selected by Louis Dreyfus Company

ION, a global provider of trading, analytics and risk management solutions for capital markets, commodities and treasury management, today announced that leading global agribusiness Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) has chosen ION Derivatives Global Trading Platform (GTP) to manage and grow their derivatives execution and hedging operations.

14 December 2021

Company announcement/wholesale

ION launches TreasuraSpark for cash management

ION Treasury, a global provider of treasury and risk management solutions for corporations, financial institutions, and central banks, today announces the launch of TreasuraSpark, a simple to use cash management SaaS solution, to help high-growth organizations migrate from outdated spreadsheets to automated cash management.

01 November 2021

News/wholesale

ION Group to take 9.99% stake in Italian challenger illimity

ION Group is to install a new IT system for Italian digital challenger bank illimity and take a 9.99% stake in the lender.

22 June 2021

News/markets

ION gets greenlight for Broadway takeover

ION Group's offer to offload Broadway Technology's fixed income business has appeased the UK's competition watchdog, which has now cleared the acquisition of the rest of the company.

10 November 2020

News/wealth

Avaloq stake suitors include ION and NEC - Bloomberg

ION, NEC and a host of private equity firms are in the running to buy Warburg Pincus's 45% stake in Swiss fintech house Avaloq, according to Bloomberg.

04 September 2020

News/markets

ION offers to sell Broadway fixed income biz to clear competition concerns

ION Group has agreed to offload Broadway Technology's fixed income business in order to appease the UK's competition watchdog and secure the acquisition of the rest of the company.

10 August 2020

News/markets

UK watchdog raises competition concerns over ION-Broadway deal

ION Group's planned takeover of Broadway Technology has been thrown into doubt after a UK watchdog ruled that the deal could raise competition concerns in the supply of electronic trading systems.

08 July 2020

Company announcement

R.J. O'Brien chooses ION Global Trading Platform

ION, the largest global provider of trading, analytics, and risk management solutions for capital markets, commodities, and treasury management, today announced that R.J. O’Brien & Associates (RJO) has chosen the ION Global Trading Platform (GTP) to continue the strategic growth of its cleared derivatives business.

31 October 2019

News

Irish fintech Ion set to buy Acuris for £1bn

Ion Group, a Dublin-based financial software and data company, is reportedly in talks to acquire Acuris, the London-based owner of financial news and data service Mergermarket, in a deal expected to be worth more than £1bn.

10 May 2019