The bank deployed the technology with the intention of renewing its London and Tokyo trading floor communication systems. It is now trading on IPC systems at all three of its major global sites including London, Tokyo and New York.

It was very important to us that we improve the users’ operational efficiency, and we liked the smaller foot-print, easy-to-see and easy-to-use features of the IQMX desktop, said Seiji Hayashi, senior manager, IT business processing department of Sumitomo Trust. In addition, operational stability is the absolute highest requirement for our trading systems, and IPC’s distributed architecture is highly reliable.