Press Release

EP3® Technology Powers $560 Million in U.S. Election Contracts: The Invisible Engine Behind ForecastEx’s Fast-Growing Predictions Market

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VIA PR Newswire:

November 13, 2024, Austin, Texas — ForecastEx, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Interactive Brokers (IBKR) and a US-regulated predictions exchange and clearinghouse, processed an impressive $560 million+ in election contracts for the 2024 U.S. general election. The innovative technology driving those contracts? Connamara Technologies’ EP3 ® matching engine and exchange platform.

In the days leading up to and during election night, EP3 operated like the gears of a fine timepiece: inconspicuous, vital, and unfaltering. This synchronicity of unyielding performance weathered waves of volatility and seamlessly processed trades at a record volume. 

Working in concert with ForecastEx’s internal teams, Connamara Technologies’ engineers monitored systems around the clock, ready to respond to surges in trade volume with precision and expertise. The team’s commitment went beyond standard duty, ensuring unparalleled service during this first-in-a-lifetime historic trading event. 

With EP3 powering its trading, ForecastEx has not only established a benchmark for transparency in elections but has also offered the public real-time, market-based insights into election sentiment. EP3 operates from a legacy of trading knowledge that dates back to the late 1980s.

“While you may not recognize the name EP3 just yet, you’ll certainly recognize our impact. Whether you placed a trade or watched from afar, the 2024 election proved our technology’s resilience and our team’s commitment to deliver seamless, high-volume processing at every turn for future predictive events,” said Jim Downs, Co-Founder and CEO of Connamara Technologies.

As predictions markets continue to grow, the unseen elements – the EP3 technology and the engineers who support it – will remain crucial to providing reliable, transparent platforms that allow for public sentiment to be expressed and analyzed in real-time. Moving forward, Connamara Technologies aims to expand EP3’s reach, enabling new exchanges and markets to take advantage of this dependable backbone technology.

About Connamara Technologies

Connamara Technologies is the leading provider of fully-integrated exchange infrastructure, empowering new and existing exchanges to operate with exceptional efficiency and reliability. Its EP3 platform is a new breed of exchange and clearing technology that seamlessly integrates all key functions into a single, robust platform. It is cost-accessible, adaptable, scalable and quick-to-market. Engineered for the evolving needs of the next generation of exchanges and marketplaces, EP3 is shaping the future of financial markets.

To learn more, please visit www.connamara.tech or connect on LinkedIn

Media Contact: [email protected]

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Connamara Technologies Equips Zero Hash with Cutting-Edge Exchange Platform

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AUSTIN, TX, CHICAGO, IL – October 8, 2024 – Connamara Technologies, a leading provider of fully integrated exchange infrastructure solutions, is proud to announce that Zero Hash, the foremost crypto and stablecoin infrastructure platform, has successfully implemented its digital asset platform, powered by the proprietary EP3® matching engine.

EP3 is a versatile and scalable exchange platform designed to meet the evolving needs of the emerging asset market.

Why it Matters to Zero Hash 

  • By leveraging EP3’s advanced features, Zero Hash can efficiently match orders, manage risk, and access new markets. 
  • EP3’s flexibility allows Zero Hash to explore new use cases, further solidifying its position as the leading infrastructure provider for start-ups, enterprises, and Fortune 500 companies, powering a diverse range of use cases: cross-border payments, commerce, trading, remittance, payroll, tokenization, wallets and on and off-ramps.

Why it Matters to Connamara Technologies 

Partnering with Zero Hash, a major and rapidly growing player in the crypto and stablecoin infrastructure space, reinforces the early EP3 design decisions to provide an exchange infrastructure platform that is flexible and can scale as our customers grow.

Quotes 

  • “Zero Hash has assembled a top-notch business and engineering team, and we are honored that they selected EP3 and Connamara Technologies as technical partners in creating a world-class crypto infrastructure.”  – Jim Downs, Co-Founder and CEO of Connamara Technologies. 
  • “The team at Connamara provides deep technical expertise and market knowledge that has helped Zero Hash scale critical aspects of our product offering to meet market demand. The digital asset space is constantly evolving and Connamara’s ability to adapt and evolve has played a pivotal role in our success.”  – Adam Leaman, Zero Hash Chief Client Officer and Founding Team member.

About Zero Hash

Zero Hash is the leading crypto and stablecoin infrastructure provider that seamlessly connects fiat, crypto and stablecoins in one platform, enabling a better way to move and transfer money and value globally.

Through its embeddable infrastructure, start-ups, enterprises and Fortune 500 companies build a diverse range of use cases: cross-border payments, commerce, trading, remittance, payroll, tokenization, wallets and on and off-ramps.

Zero Hash Holdings is backed by investors, including Point72 Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, and NYCA.

Zero Hash LLC is a FinCen-registered Money Service Business and a regulated Money Transmitter that can operate in 51 US jurisdictions. Zero Hash LLC and Zero Hash Liquidity Services LLC are licensed to engage in virtual currency business activity by the New York State Department of Financial Services. In Canada, Zero Hash LLC is registered as a Money Service Business with FINTRAC.

Zero Hash Australia Pty Ltd. is registered with AUSTRAC as a Digital Currency Exchange Provider, with DCE registered provider number DCE100804170-001.  This registration enables Zero Hash to offer its crypto services in Australia.  Zero Hash Australia Pty Ltd. is registered on the New Zealand register of financial service providers, with Financial Service Provider (FSP)  number FSP1004503.  A FSP in New Zealand is a registration and does not mean that Zero Hash Australia Pty Ltd. is licensed by a New Zealand regulator to provide crypto services.  Zero Hash Australia Pty Ltd.’s registration on the New Zealand register of financial service providers does not mean that Zero Hash Australia is subject to active regulation or oversight by a New Zealand regulator.  Zero Hash Europe B.V. is registered as a Virtual Asset Services Provider (VASP) registration by the Dutch Central Bank (Relation number: R193684).  Zero Hash Europe Sp. Zoo is registered as a VASP by the Tax Administration Chamber of Poland in Katowice (Registration number RDWW – 1212).

Connect with Zero Hash

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Zero Hash Disclosures

Zero Hash services and product offerings may not be available in all jurisdictions. Zero Hash accounts are not subject to FDIC or SIPC protections, or any such equivalent protections that may exist outside of the US. Zero Hash’s technical support and enablement of any asset is not an endorsement of such asset and is not a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any crypto asset. The value of any cryptocurrency, including digital assets pegged to fiat currency, commodities, or any other asset, may go to zero. Zero Hash is not registered with the SEC or FINRA. Zero Hash does not provide any securities services and is not a custodian of securities, including security tokens, on behalf of customers.

About Connamara Technologies

Connamara Technologies is the leading provider of fully-integrated exchange infrastructure, empowering new and existing exchanges to operate with exceptional efficiency and reliability. Its EP3 platform is a new breed of exchange and clearing technology that seamlessly integrates all key functions into a single, robust platform. It is cost-accessible, adaptable, scalable and quick-to-market. Engineered for the evolving needs of the next generation of exchanges and marketplaces, EP3 is shaping the future of financial markets.

To learn more, please visit www.connamara.tech or connect on LinkedIn

Media Contact:

Randy Williams for Connamara
[email protected]
+1.917.213.5980

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Connamara Technologies’ EP3™ Exchange and Clearing Platform Powers Interactive Brokers’ ForecastEx Predictions Exchange

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Austin, Texas – August 14, 2024 – ForecastEx successfully launched its innovative predictions exchange for contracts on US economic and global climate events on August 1st, backed by Connamara Technologies’ fully integrated EP3™ exchange and clearing technology. 

ForecastEx, a wholly owned subsidiary of Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: IBKR), is licensed by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as a Designated Contract Market (DCM) and a Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO).

US economic events offered on ForecastEx include Unemployment Claims, Consumer Price Index, Retail Sales, Fed Funds, Housing Starts, and others. Global climate events include temperatures and atmospheric CO2. 

EP3™ is a New Breed of Exchange and Clearing Technology: 

  • An end-to-end solution seamlessly integrating all key functions into a single, robust platform, including market access, market-data distribution, order matching and execution, exchange operations and administration, risk management, market surveillance, regulatory reporting, and clearing and settlement.
  • Purpose-built for the next generation of exchanges and marketplaces with technology that is quick-to-market, cost-accessible, and easily adaptable to new asset classes and ways of trading.
  • Meeting the evolving needs of dynamic markets like predictions, crypto, and tokenized real-world assets, while addressing regulatory requirements for traditional markets like equities and derivatives.

ForecastEx CEO David Downey:

“We’re impressed with Connamara’s ability to meet our exacting requirements with EP3TM and deliver exchange and clearinghouse technology for an entirely new market. As ForecastEx grows, we expect to lean on the EP3 platform and team to introduce more innovative features for our customers.” 

Connamara Technologies CEO Jim Downs:

“It’s a privilege to work with the visionaries at ForecastEx and we’re grateful for their trust. We’ve enjoyed the challenge of building this unique market and look forward to working alongside the ForecastEx team to enhance its capabilities over time.”

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About Connamara Technologies and EP3™

Connamara Technologies is a leading provider of fully integrated exchange infrastructure, empowering new and existing exchanges to operate with exceptional efficiency and reliability via its EP3™ exchange and clearing technology. Engineered for the evolving needs of the next generation of exchanges and marketplaces, EP3™ is shaping the future of financial markets.

For more information, visit www.connamara.tech or LinkedIn.

For more information about ForecastEx, LLC, visit www.forecastex.com.

For information about Interactive Brokers Group, Inc., visit www.interactivebrokers.com.

MEDIA CONTACT

Randy Williams for Connamara
+1.917.213.5980
[email protected]
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Connamara Technologies joins Google Cloud Partner Advantage

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Exchanges Made Easy…with Google Cloud! 

Austin, TX, MAY 2, 2024 — Connamara Technologies announced today that it has joined Google Cloud Partner Advantage at the partner level for the Build engagement model. This gives Google Cloud customers the ability to create financial exchanges and other exchange technology solutions that are built with and run on Google Cloud. 

As a Google Cloud partner, Connamara Technologies offers customers the ability to build and operate highly customized exchanges with the EP3 platform as its foundation. Key features of the platform:

  • Order Matching Engines, Auctions, RFQs, and other market mechanisms
  • Exchange Operations and Reporting
  • Market Surveillance and Risk Tooling
  • Clearing and Settlement Workflows
  • APIs for other custom functionality and integrations

EP3 is supported by a dedicated team of professionals with decades of experience building custom software for capital markets. Connamara Technologies’ professional services and support teams allow customers to scale quickly, receive immediate support, and extend EP3’s functionality.

“Although EP3 can be deployed on-prem or to any cloud provider, it is an obvious fit for us to be a Google Cloud partner because we love building on the Google Cloud ecosystem and are confident we can provide our customers and future customers with a better experience of building marketplaces through this partnership with Google Cloud.”

– Daniel Davis, Head of Growth, Connamara Technologies

To learn more about how EP3 can help build your marketplace, contact [email protected].

About Connamara Technologies

Connamara Technologies builds future-ready exchange platforms and order matching engines. It’s the company behind EP3, the advanced exchange platform and order matching engine incubated by Connamara Systems. 

Learn more: https://www.connamara.tech

Connamara Technologies Granted Membership to FIA

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AUSTIN, TEXAS, Feb 16, 2024

Connamara Technologies, the company behind EP3, the asset agnostic exchange platform, announces that it has been approved for membership to the Futures Industry Association (FIA, Inc). 

FIA is the leading global trade organization for futures, options, and centrally cleared derivative markets. With offices in Brussels, London, Singapore, and Washington, D.C., its mission is to support open, transparent, and competitive markets, protect and enhance the financial system’s integrity, and promote high standards of professional conduct. Since 1955, FIA has partnered with global regulators, promoted industry-led best practices, supported efficiency and innovation, and ensured the safety and soundness of global cleared derivatives markets now and in the future. 

Connamara Technologies can leverage this newly granted membership to connect with market participants, regulators, and industry leaders. With FIA’s high-level advocacy support, the Technologies team can access exclusive member-only data visualizations, including levels of trading activity on global futures exchanges, risk exposures at CCPs, the amount of customer funds held by U.S. clearing firms, and SEF volumes. FIA also maintains a central repository of exchange-provided risk controls and practices in global cleared derivatives markets for the use of FIA members.

Connamara Technologies will celebrate our membership acceptance by sponsoring the Pickleball Clinic at FIA Boca, the annual International Futures Industry Conference, on Mar 10, 2024.

“It’s an honor for our young company to be granted membership in FIA,” remarked Connamara Technologies co-founder and CEO Jim Downs. “The FIA and its prestigious membership ranks represent the leading thinkers driving future thinking in global derivative markets. Connamara Tech is pleased to be among this exclusive list of innovators.”

Access Connamara Technologies’ member profile and official announcement here. 

About Connamara Technologies:

Connamara Technologies is the company behind EP3, the asset-agnostic exchange platform conceived and incubated at Connamara Systems, a provider of capital market trading solutions since 1998. EP3’s comprehensive platform provides solutions for exchange operations, order matching and execution, market surveillance, and settlement. EP3 creates performant, reliable, and scalable marketplaces enabling an exchange to run continuously with virtually no downtime. Connamara Technologies and its team of experienced professionals enable big ideas and remain dedicated to developing innovative technology that better serves the needs of tomorrow’s exchanges. Learn more: https://www.connamara.tech/company/

BEE4 Selects Connamara Technologies’ EP3 to Connect Emerging Firms with Forward-Thinking Investors

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May 24th, 2023 – Austin, TX – BEE4 is pleased to announce that it has chosen Connamara Technologies as the technology provider for its exchange platform that connects emerging businesses with investors. BEE4 is leveraging Connamara Technologies’ EP3™ exchange platform to create a scalable stock market in Brazil.

BEE4 is Brazil’s first regulated tokenized stock market built for companies with annual revenues between R$10 million and R$300 million to trade shares within a secure, regulated environment. BEE4’s stock market platform combines its own blockchain technology with Connamara Technologies’ EP3 platform to offer capital and funding to new and emerging companies in Brazil.

According to BEE4’s CEO, Patricia Stille, the firm is passionate about giving investors access to new markets and innovative companies. “We chose Connamara Technologies because EP3 fits our model very well. The system is complete and flexible to meet new parameters, inherent in a new market where everything grows at an accelerated pace and needs to be ready to adapt to future realities with agility and security. At BEE4 we have several technology initiatives and the evolution of our systems requires a series of decisions over time. Among them, what makes sense to develop at home, what is core/strategic, and what solutions are offered by third parties and widely used by exchanges and organized markets around the world. To gain scale with robustness and explore BEE4’s innovative potential, partnership with leading providers, with robust and reliable solutions, is essential,” she said.

When asked why they choose to work with Connamara Technologies to build their exchange, the team at BEE4 stated there aren’t many vendors out there like Connamara Technologies. In particular, the team mentioned they liked that EP3 is scalable, flexible, and global, enabling BEE4 to build an exchange that is authorized by CVM, Brazil’s regulatory organization. EP3 is also one of the few secure exchange platforms that can incorporate BEE4’s own blockchain technology.

BEE4 joins an elite roster of companies that have worked with Connamara Technologies. Other firms that have chosen Connamara Technologies to build exchanges and matching engines include TeraExchange, American Financial Exchange (AFX), MaterialsXchange, and many other production and pre-production exchanges.

Connamara CEO and co-founder Jim Downs said, “We are excited to work with BEE4 on designing and building this stock exchange to service the Brazilian market. It’s a thrill to unite the blockchain technology BEE4 created with the scalability of EP3. The team at BEE4 has an ambitious mission to provide financial resources to emerging firms and we are happy to provide the technology infrastructure to help them offer this important service.”

About Connamara Technologies:

Connamara Technologies builds future-ready exchange platforms and order matching engines. It’s the company behind EP3, the advanced exchange platform and order matching engine incubated by Connamara Systems. Learn more: https://www.connamara.tech/company/

About BEE4:

BEE4 is the first secure, regulated stock market in Brazil listing companies with annual revenues between R$10 million and R$300 million. With the use of proprietary blockchain technology, BEE4 created a system that processes trades in a safe, transparent, and compliant manner. Learn more: https://bee4.com.br/quem-somos/

Contacts
Connamara Technologies
Randy Williams
[email protected]

Bee4
Fernanda Christina Verlangieri Caio
[email protected]

TeraExchange Selects EP3 Platform from Connamara Technologies to Power Swap Execution Facility

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SPRINGFIELD, NJ and AUSTIN, TX – March 13, 2023 – TeraExchange, LLC., announced today that it has selected EP3, from Connamara Technologies, Inc., to power TeraExchange, a CFTC-registered Swap Execution Facility (SEF) that delivers unconflicted swap market access and utility to its market participants at highly competitive rates.

TeraExchange’s centrally cleared swaps mitigate risk and improve the overall efficiency of the trading process and Connamara Technologies is a global provider of exchange solutions for capital markets and alternative assets. EP3’s cutting-edge technology provides industry-leading speed, state-of-the-art self-healing capabilities, and customized, flexible integrations. Its seamless infrastructure assures future-proof capabilities designed specifically to meet the unique needs of TeraExchange and its users.

“TeraExchange’s expertise in swaps trading, combined with EP3’s advanced capabilities, allows us to provide a reliable and secure trading platform for institutional players,” said Paul Jenkins, CTO. “The track record of Jim Downs and the Connamara team is second-to-none, and we’re thrilled to work with them to launch our innovative, agile platform.”

“At Connamara Technologies, we understand the changing landscape of today’s global capital markets. We are pleased to work with TeraExchange to develop a scalable solution that meets their needs — and the needs of their clients — at every step,” said Jim Downs, co-founder and CEO of Connamara Technologies. Connamara’s Head of Growth, Dan Davis, added, “SEFs are an important part of the capital markets ecosystem, providing stability, transparency, and risk management benefits, and clients like TeraExchange are the reason we developed our EP3 platform with modern, customizable and scalable functionality.”

For more information about TeraExchange, visit Teraexchange.com. Find more information on EP3, visit Connamara.tech.

About TeraExchange, LLC.

TeraExchange, LLC, an independent provider of Dodd-Frank Act compliant end-to-end exchange services, is a swap execution facility registered with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. TeraExchange utilizes advanced trading technologies and straight-through processing to deliver unconflicted swap market access and utility to its market participants at highly competitive rates. TeraExchange’s cloud-based exchange infrastructure provides global introducing brokers and other institutional market participants with compliant pre-trade credit confirmation, trade execution and regulatory reporting services across a broad range of centrally cleared financial products.

About Connamara Technologies, Inc. and EP3

Connamara Technologies is the company behind EP3, the advanced exchange platform and order-matching engine, conceived and incubated at Connamara Systems. EP3 represents years of accumulated knowledge and experience from successful deliveries to exchanges and marketplaces. Exchange operators can rely on a legacy of proven exchange technology when choosing an exchange platform and matching engine with unparalleled flexibility and reliability.

Connamara Media Contact:

Randy Williams
[email protected]

TeraExchange Media Contact:

Paul Jenkins
[email protected]