Aphelion - an ION Group company | 438 followers on LinkedIn. FX technology is our only focus. | Aphe­lion was founded in 2006 in Sweden by a team of FX spe­cial­ists with deep exper­tise in elec­tronic trading. In 2018, Aphelion became a fully-owned subsidiary of the ION Group. ION was founded in 1998 and provides mission-critical trading and workflow automation software solutions to corporates, central banks and financial institutions and is a pioneer and visionary innovator of automation technology.