Activ Financial is a global provider of real-time, multi-asset financial market data and solutions with coverage spanning more than 200 equity and derivatives exchanges around the world.

In today's ever-changing capital markets landscape, reliable connectivity throughout the trade lifecycle and the ability to rapidly access a ready-made ecosystem of counterparties, liquidity venues and trade lifecycle services have become the most critical elements for the investor community to efficiently generate superior risk-adjusted returns while mitigating operational, market and business risks. Successful institutional investors, asset managers, hedge funds and brokers are now deploying a Managed Network-as-a-Service (MNaaS) model to access global market data to execute complex trading strategies and harvest alpha.

"Both buy-side and sell-side firms are increasingly demanding adaptive, on-demand connectivity to access market data from liquidity venues around the world," said Frank Piasecki, President, Activ Financial. "We are thrilled to partner with IPC to expand our reach and offer our market data solutions to a wider community of capital market participants."

"Access to timely market data from a wide range of liquidity venues and across multiple asset classes is critical to the successful execution of trading and risk management strategies of our diverse investor community," said David Brown, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Financial Markets Network, IPC. "We are excited to welcome Activ Financial, a leading provider of reliable global market data, to our ecosystem of capital market participants."

The IPC Financial Markets Network service portfolio includes the Connexus Financial Extranet and Direct Connect data services, as well as Trader and Enhanced Voice connectivity services. IPC's Financial Markets Network interconnects global financial centers and allows access to approximately 5,000 market participant locations in over 700 cities in nearly 60 countries.