IEX Story
IEX’s co-founders Brad Katsuyama, Ronan Ryan, Rob Park and John Schwall meet at Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), where they shared a vision for a more transparent system that better protected investors.
IEX is founded, and begins work on its Alternative Trading System (ATS) which debuts one year later.
IEX’s origin story is chronicled in Michael Lewis’s New York Times Best Seller “Flash Boys.”
IEX creates the Signal, a mathematical formula that powers numerous IEX order types. The Signal is designed to identify moments when a stock’s price is unstable and protect clients from adverse selection.
Building off the Signal, IEX debuts D-Peg, a signature patented order type designed to protect dark orders from unstable prices.
The SEC approves IEX’s application as an exchange. IEX Exchange is born with support from some of the world’s largest financial institutions, including Capital Group, Franklin Templeton Investments, OppenheimerFunds, MassMutual Ventures, Brandes Investment Partners, Betterment, and Norges Bank.
IEX launches its D-Limit (Discretionary-Limit) order type. Designed to improve displayed trading for market participants, D-Limit leverages the Signal and is the only exchange order type of its kind designed to protect orders from adverse selection.
IEX creates swXtch.io, game-changing cloud software that enables previously blocked workloads to move to the cloud – with no code changes.
A significant iteration on the Signal – known as “Signal v6” – introduces a new rules-based model to the formula, bringing a new level of performance for orders on IEX Exchange.
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What's it like to work at IEX? Our culture is best described by our Team Standards.
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Our IEX journey
We're building game-changing technology that shapes the future.
/ Head of Business Development, IEX Exchange
"At IEX Exchange we're focused on building products that drive superior execution performance. Working here, you're challenged to find opportunities and think bigger every day."
/ COO, IEX Exchange
“We are a high-performance U.S. stock exchange with some of the world’s most innovative design and product offerings. Providing best-in-class performance to our clients in a transparent way is integral to how we work.”
/ Chief Strategy Officer, IEX Group
“Driven by our pioneering spirit and unyielding commitment to innovation, IEX is at the forefront of making markets fairer, and is in a unique position to truly shape the future of digital finance.”
/ CEO, swXtch.io
“Our cloud networking technology makes what was previously impossible, possible; with the potential to transform how entire industries operate. We are designing the future.”
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