Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets has set up a new trading
floor for its derivatives, foreign exchange, credit and debt
capital trading, with voice trading infrastructure from
IPC.
The new 250-position trading floor was engineered and installed
by IPC and fitted with the supplier’s Alliance MX infrastructure,
IQMX and Remote Enterprise IQMX turrets, Applications Modules with
TraderVision and Enterprise ICMX intercoms.
The system has been designed to reduce possible points of
failure and to allow the addition of new trader voice circuits
within a day – a process that took three to four days in the
past.
The banking firm has also replaced its overall voice network
infrastructure with IPC’s Enterprise Voice Services (EVS). The
system allows voice communications to be delivered to both the
existing and the new trading floor simultaneously, allowing traders
to switch to the new site with no downtime.
Gavin Golbourn, head of production support at Lloyds TSB
Corporate Markets, said, “We wanted to create an architecture that
would be as robust as possible and that could easily grow along
with us. We now have an even more efficient and secure operation
that will allow us to serve our clients better than ever
before.”
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