About Us

ION Trading is a market leader in providing high performance solutions for electronic trading, position and risk management, pricing, and order management.

More than 100 financial institutions in 20 different countries have already chosen ION as a strategic partner. With offices in London, New York, Tokyo, Toronto, Sydney, Frankfurt, Pisa, Madrid, Dublin, Malta and New Delhi, ION can support its customers’ needs on a global basis.

Trading
The ION.NET Interface is the trading interface of the MarketView solution. It enables traders to access more than 80 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 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