Author name: Sharon Reaves

Here is a Riddle for the Ages:  I provide eternal life to IBM and am the original gangster of big data. What am I? If you guessed Watson…please see yourself out. Love ‘em or hate ‘em mainframes are here to stay. Actually, scratch that…no one loves mainframes, but there really is no getting rid of

It’s a tough position. On the one hand the CFTC really does not want to do anything that will disrupt a burgeoning market. On the other hand, as a regulator, they are in the unfortunate position of reconciling laws and regulations that could never, not on their best day, ever imagine something like virtual currency.

Technical Debt. Whether we realize it or not, most of our professional lives are awash in debt. It doesn’t matter if you are in operations, sales, technology, or management. If you get up every day and put brain power toward an enterprise you are playing a game that is downright “Enronesque.” Technical debt as a

Blockchain cats. You read it correctly. Here’s the link. You can’t make this stuff up.  But, even amidst all the hype about bitcoin, blockchain and…virtual cats, I at least have a working hypothesis on WHY this is happening. A deep dive into minutia that turns out to be really important. The first successful block ledger,

CME shocked the market with its intention to launch Bitcoin futures by December 2017. We think it’s very likely that bitcoin futures will go a long way in reducing bitcoin volatility and ushering its movement into a regulated market. BTC Futures launch December 18th. CME set spot limits at 1,000 contracts and accountability levels at

On October 4 BroadPeak and Katten will be running a position limit training session. This session is designed for all firms impacted by MiFID II Position Limits (i.e., anyone who trades commodity derivatives on an EU trading venue or economically equivalent over-the- counter product). More details and registration link here.

  Further to the very successful legal and operations focused webinars we completed with Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP on MiFID II limits and transaction reporting BroadPeak will now be holding a webinar on how technology solves these challenges. The presenters will give best practices for meeting these regulatory challenges efficiently with technology and also give

No matter where you are in the world – Irrespective of whether you fall under MiFID II or if you trade commodities in Europe – you are subject to MIFID II limits. This and so much more in the webinar below. If you are trading futures in Europe, K3 is the only limits solution providing

Name 3 technologies (software, open source, other)  that made a significant positive impact for the enterprise in 2016. Corporate IT departments are a tough place to be these days. On the one hand IT departments are constantly hammered by the business to execute, execute, execute.  On the other hand they are handcuffed by some “Cargo

It has been a busy seven days in the world of regulatory position limits. First a new MiFID II position limits RTS was released as reported here and the CFTC re-proposed their own ‘Dodd-Frank’ limits regime. Most international firms will have to comply with both. So why has the CFTC limits announcement being getting so