Three Things to Consider When Integrating with Legacy Systems It used to really bother me. These old cruddy systems. Grey hair after grey hair… they just they are the bane of the corporate world. But replacing them? Uh… ha!… no way, man. It is a reality of modern day business. There are going to be some legacy […]
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Fixed Width to Tableau with K3 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
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ICE Bakkt Explained “Bakkt is designed to serve as a scalable on-ramp for institutional, merchant, and consumer participation in digital assets by promoting greater efficiency, security, and utility.”-Kelly Loeffler OK, maybe Loeffler is being cautious, but this is about as vague as you can get. Sprecher, the CEO of ICE, who is backing all of
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Synchronous Integration or Asynchronous Integration – Which is Better? Asynchronous integration? What! Why on earth would I care about this? Well if you are moving data, (big data, small data, structured/unstructured data) this kind of thing is going to come up. Imagine that you are calling a taxi. You dial up the taxi company and
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All About Exchange Connectivity If your business struggles with getting trades into your trading system, you are not alone. We see this a lot. Exchange connectivity is just one of those things loaded with nuance. So, if you have problems with your current setup, or your IT team is planning on building themselves here’s what
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BroadPeak and Allegro Join Forces on Data Integration DALLAS, May 16, 2018 – Allegro Development Corp., a leading provider of commodity trading and risk management (CTRM) software, announced today that it has formed a strategic partnership with BroadPeak Partners, a world-renowned developer of K3 and other intuitive UI applications that provide both custom and off-the-shelf interconnectivity toward a
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The Surveillance Data Problem EFRP: If your commodity firm is going to get fined for something, odds are it’s going to be for an EFRP documentation violation. More companies get hit for this than any other violation. In summary, every EFRP must be tied back to the independent OTC transaction. Most firms get in trouble
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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.
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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
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Bitcoin Indivisible? No, But It Is Indefeasible. 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
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Bitcoin Limits, MiFID II Limits and More 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
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K3 middleware to be a centerpiece of Mercuria’s integrated architecture. BroadPeak Partners, the company behind K3, is pleased to announce that Mercuria Energy Group (“Mercuria”) will be using the K3 middware integration solution to further enhance its global reporting and surveillance programs. K3 supports regulatory reporting with, rules and validations across 4 continents and fulfills
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Position Limits Training from Katten & BroadPeak 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
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Surveillance is a dilemma. Busy? Yea, us too. It’s been a crazy couple of months. Besides MiFID II projects, BroadPeak is rolling out a whole bunch of new stuff at the end of summer! More on that in a bit… JP Morgan got fined $800,000 for trade surveillance failures. There was some commentary – which
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Position Limits and Transaction Reporting Webinar 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
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The Long Arm of MiFID II Limits 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,
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Recap of our recent MiFID II Webinar and Q&A with AIMA, Katten and BroadPeak AIMA, BroadPeak and Katten Muchin Rosenman had a great webinar and Question and Answer session last week on MiFID II transaction reporting and position limits. We had just over 350 attendees and could not quite get to all the questions. So,
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Enterprise Technology | Stop | Clear Your Mind 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
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CFTC – Hail Mary? 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
Validation. There is a reason everyone is talking about it. If you do it wrong, your compliance personnel start pulling their hair out. As far as ESMA, Dodd-Frank and MiFID II trade reporting we are clearly in a world that is moving from low validation to one that is highly validated. Com-Sci 101: Four Categories
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