Author name: Gordon Allott

We took our website and fed it into ChatGPT to find out what there was to find out. Here it is.  Ask anything you like.  Neato Everyone already knows ChatGPT is cool. It’s a technological knockout. But is it endgame AI? No. Unequivocally no. It’s a piece of “Narrow Artificial Intelligence” that is a pretty […]

Tech Teams 2022: Never Go Full Action Movie Here is a caution for tech teams in 2022.  Every action movie has this one scene.  It’s the “Scotty” scene.  It’s where the fearless captain says, “listen Scotty…we have to do this thing or we are all gonna die.  How long is it going to take us

SBSR is coming. Securities swaps are about to be reportable to the SEC.  There is just no stopping it now.  Archegos pretty much guarantees SBSR as an administrative priority. So What is SBSR? SBSR is “Securities Based Swaps Reporting.”   It’s a final remnant of the Dodd-Frank legislation.  Remember the 2007 financial collapse?  Well, Dodd-Frank

BroadPeak Partners, the leading purveyor of K3-driven real-time exchange trade data, regulatory and surveillance reporting, is expanding its London office in response to increased European demand. The firm has appointed Henry Rhodes to oversee UK and EU sales. “There are some really important macro factors that make London an excellent choice for expansion. We are seeing strong

Amazon.com went down last week. It makes up over half the revenue for a trillion dollar behemoth. Let’s just say uptime is critical. A short window of grace The first thing we can learn about this outage is that you probably didn’t even notice. This is a really important concept: No setup is infallible. The

A new cloud-native and intuitive user interface, on top of our powerful K3 architecture. We are excited to announce the release of K3 7.0, the latest version of our enterprise platform. K3 7.0 introduces a new web-based client that provides a highly intuitive user experience and includes many new features to assist enterprises in more

Every trade surveillance program starts at step one: Where’s the data? You can come up with all the reports, alerts, and visualizations the heart desires, but absent the right data it’s just a list of empty requests. Data is the lifeblood of a good surveillance program. While much of the focus for surveillance is around

Here are the facts: CME announced on Friday evening that it is shutting down the EU and Aussie trade reporting divisions. US and Canada operations will continue as normal. CME says this covers activity across the CME ETR (European Trade Repository) and Abide environments. The current sunset date Nov 30, 2020. So what does all

BroadPeak’s new version of K3 Limits includes customer-focused enhancements for communications, user interface, and data enrichment. K3 Limits will utilize an improved K3 Atlas, an enriched database of contract details, offering customers a more effective way to support compliance activity. K3 Atlas is a BroadPeak service that provides straightforward, uninterrupted API access to a rich

It’s like watching a game show. I’ll take high ownership costs and low overall value for $1200, Alex! How on earth did we get here again? We had brilliance on our side. Technologists naturally systemize themselves right out of a job. Imagine this scenario: A person gets paid one million dollars a year to be

When we wake up from this mini dystopia, the world will have changed, especially the way companies go about business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) planning. Previously based on natural disaster or cyberattack scenarios, these strategies will need to expand to include new scenarios staring us in the face today. Previously de-prioritized and overlooked

Compliance is viewed as the “trading cops” and most compliance officers are fine with that. Let’s look at a group that many firms used to call an unnecessary cost center: Risk. Back in the day, risk groups were the “trading cops.” They were sort of this mysterious team who worked in a back-office tinkering with

And here’s the Playbook Peter Principle: whatever playbook has worked for us in the past will continue to be used over and over until it hurts us.  Really hurts us.

As our global society adjusts to a new normal, we want to assure our customers and partners that BroadPeak is committed to your business continuity. Agility is part of our company DNA and we are grateful that our shift to 100% remote operations was swift and with minimal business interruption. During this time: Globally, staff