Author name: Sharon Reaves

Let’s face it.  You are stuck with your legacy applications.  Unlike, the Delta fraternity house in the movie Animal House, this kind of legacy is not exactly the life of the party. Chances are, yours are probably old, monolithic, single-purpose, expensive to operate, stubborn, and a little more than fragile. Replace?  Many careers have been

Fix ICE Trade Capture Messages & Ice Trade Breaks with K3 by BroadPeak What You Need To Know Trade breaks. It’s the post-trade headache that keeps the lights on over at Tylenol/Panadol. Looking to get home to your kids? Or, more likely these days…hear that rumble of unfed children outside your home office door? Sorry

Maybe you aren’t a Ph.D in Statistics. Maybe you never stepped foot into a Comp Sci department. If you have an itch to dive into data science these things matter far less than they ever have. What does matter is your drive to make a meaningful difference wherever you are. Data Science becomes more and

The CFTC is coming to the end of a long-overdue Dodd-Frank trade reporting revision. Commission staff has been working on this for years. In essence there are 128 standard fields under Parts 43, 45, and 49 (the main areas dealing with trade reporting). Here’s what you need to know: There is a significant increase in

Non-Technical Demystification of The Largest Software IPO of all Time The hype train is certainly pulling into the station. You may have heard about Snowflake, the software company that Warren Buffett invested in and is now having its Initial Public Offering (IPO) So really, what exactly is so great about Snowflake (in non-technical terms)? The

Legally Robbing Insurance Companies: a Perspective on the Power of Intuitive UX Think about this: A little unknown insurance company: Lacking any typical insurance rating (AB Best etc) or bona fides; Operating with a tiny (compared to established industry behemoths) marketing budget; With no active agent network; and Not any kind of established track record

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

Navigating CME’s European and Australian Reporting Retreat 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