Archive
Here you can find the older press releases and information about our past events.
August 2007
icubic AG and Fimas GmbH enter sales and marketing co-operation
icubic AG, a well known provider of solutions for the electronic trading of financial instruments, and Fimas GmbH, a provider of specialist consultancy services to all active market participants in global financial instrument trading, have entered a sales and marketing agreement for Europe. Fimas, with its headquarters in Frankfurt, is to support actively the positioning of icubic products and services from now on. The continuous analysis of the European market forms another focus of this co-operation.
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39th ICMA in Berlin
The latest challenges for banks in the e-trading business were addressed by icubic at the ICMA conference. At our stand we were demonstrating our capability to provide solutions for the inter-dealer and dealer-to-customer markets and how to facilitate the pricing and quoting process across e-trading platforms and across multi asset classes.
» View the full newsFebruary 2007
2nd Annual Fixed Income e-Trading Conference in London
At the e-trading conference at stand 6 icubic will be discussing the solutions to the latest challenges affecting e-trading. Specifically in our speaker session on the 6th February at 13.20, we will be addressing the challenge ‘The Electronic trading challenge – handling multiple products across multiple channels for increasingly demanding customers´.
» View the full newsMay 2006
DZ BANK deploys iSettle to automate the booking of repo trades
In addition to iQbonds and iMarket, iSettle is the third icubic solution that DZ BANK deploys. iQbonds is a high performance solution for pricing, quoting, and trading of bonds on different electronic markets from a single application. DZ BANK is using the system for acting on platforms such as e.g. Bloomberg, Eurex, MTS, and Reuters.
» View the full newsNovember 2005
DZ BANK extends icubic roll-out to external customers with implementation of iMarket
London. icubic, a leading provider of electronic trading solutions, today announced DZ BANK, the fifth largest bank in Germany, is extending its usage of icubic beyond internal trading processes by rolling-out iMarket at its Frankfurt headquarters.
» View the full newsOctober 2005
Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW) takes off with icubic
London. icubic today announced that is has won Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW) as a new customer. LBBW will be using an overall electronic trading solution from icubic. The bank belongs to Germany’s five largest credit institutions and is striving for improving its position in the electronic trading field.
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icubic conquers the North
icubic today announced that is has won HSH Nordbank as a new customer. The strong regional bank for Northern Europe will be using icubic's iQbonds for the electronic trading of financial instruments. iQbonds is an intelligent solution for market-making and trading fixed-income securities.
» View the full newsApril 2005
Ex-ION Sales-Chef Roberto Filippi wechselt zu icubic
London, 11 April 2005 – icubic™ AG, a leading provider of electronic trading solutions, today announced that Roberto Filippi, the seasoned connectivity sales and marketing specialist, has joined the team as sales director. Filippi, who is based in London, will be responsible for icubic’s strategic marketing and sales activities on a global level. He will report to Ralf Henke, CEO. Filippi’s appointment reflects the growing demand for icubic’s comprehensive electronic trading solutions and coincides with the opening of a City-based office at number 1 Cornhill.
» View the full newsMarch 2005
icubic presents iConnect
The newly enhanced connectivity extends icubic’s Direct Market Access (DMA) network beyond MTS, Eurex Bonds, BrokerTec, HDAT, EurexRepo, LIFFE and Bloomberg to include MarketAxess, the electronic corporate bond trading platform, and TradeWeb, the online fixed-income trading network. icubic has also extended its connectivity to the Reuters Application Program Interface (API), in line with the market data vendor’s recently announced decision to push into the fixed income market.
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HypoVereinsbank selects iMarket
London, 14 February 2005 – icubic™ AG, a leading provider of electronic trading solutions, today announced that HypoVereinsbank (HVB) has selected iMarket, icubic’s powerful electronic trading platform that enables seamless workflow through increased automation of price negotiation and Straight-Through Processing capabilities. icubic’s latest offering enables traders, sales and customers in the global electronic securities markets to operate for the first time within a virtual marketplace.
» View the full newsDecember 2004
Time is Money
It is well known that in 1748 Benjamin Franklin advised a young tradesmen that "time is money". In fact, the adage dates back much further. As far back as 300BC, Greek philosopher Theophrastrus of Ereos said: "Time is the most valuable thing one can spend."
» View the full newsSeptember 2004
Frankfurt-based DZ BANK extends icubic's electronic bond trading solution into London
Carsten Ames, project manager for the iQbonds roll-out at DZ BANK, says: “Our decision to automate our London-based corporate bonds front office trading operations was a natural development after the success of our project with icubic in Frankfurt. We were previously using spreadsheets to price and quote, and had to have direct interfaces with the front-ends of each market to trade.”
» View the full newsJuly 2004
Bayerische Landesbank implements iQbonds Money Market Derivatives to trade, quote and price its repo trading activity
Bayerische Landesbank (BayernLB), one of the largest and most prominent German issuers of bonds in the international capital markets, will be the first icubic customer to implement the new capabilities. BayernLB has been an icubic customer since 2000 and its bond traders already use iQbonds to price, quote and trade European government and corporate bonds on multiple electronic exchanges from a single screen. Go-live on the new module at the bank’s Munich headquarters is scheduled for the end of September 2004.
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