Author name: Sharon Reaves

REMIT Regulation | Game of Thrones Alliances and stratagems. Turns out the political twists and turns of the REMIT regulation, the EU gas and power mandate, is like..”Game of Thrones complicated.” There’s a very full field of new RRMs (HERE). Most are absolutely new to regulatory reporting. But, that’s not what’s keeping people up at […]

Docker | A $416 Million Loss Too Late? Seriously, one has to wonder whether Docker could have saved Knight Capital from bankruptcy and a $416 Million one day loss. The cause of the Knight bankruptcy is pretty straightforward. Knight was one of the biggest market makers in equities. They were the guys always providing liquidity

What is an API??? When the Harvard Business Review, a wonderful publication that rarely gets deep in technology “solution-eering”, starts talking about adopting an API strategy, it’s time to lend an ear.  If you have not read it, here it is in full. I’m going to skip over the smart sounding techno-speak of Cambridge for

The New Buzzwords You Will Hate by 2016 Freshly returned from yet another conference. Since its nearing the end of year I thought I would put out a semi-prediction about what everyone is going to be buzz-wording about in 2015. “NO ESB” –  The agenda behind the NO ESB movement is this:  Stop thinking about

Google and Darwinian Software Evolution Darwinian Software. Its a fact. Google rocked the “Geek-eratti” last week announcing that they had scuttled MapReduce in favor of Dataflow. To any regular corporate Joe this does not really mean anything.  But if you happen to be talking to “that guy” at a cocktail party bla, bla bla-ing about

Canada Trade Reporting…The Cruelty! After having connected over 25 different trading systems to repositories under Dodd-Frank and EMIR there are a LOT of lessons to be learned. Now that Canada is underway with its own unique perspective on Trade Reporting we thought we would take a moment to make some suggestions to help companies get

The Gensler-Chilton Step Down… Both are stepping down. Fresh on the heels of position limit and entity aggregation rules. (More on that later). I’ll get on my soapbox for a minute. The biggest risk for poor outcomes in commodities and derivatives regulation is regulators who do not understand the nuanced details of these products. When

EMIR ETD Will NOT Take Place? Futures reporting delay “will not take place” says EC’s Pearson – Risk.net Re-posted from Aviv at energytradingregulation.com reposted from the OTC Space. It is suggested that all market participants need to keep a close eye on this one. Read at EnergyTradingRegulation.com

EMIR ETD | “Belay That Order” News made the rounds last week that ESMA was holding off on requiring ETD deals be reported to TRs until sometime in 2015. Good news, I guess. Leading up to this un-official decision you may have found yourself in the following situations: Trying to convince certain executives that EMIR

When is EMIR reporting going to start? Post authoWe have seen more than one change of date under EMIR over the last 2 weeks, including both trade reporting and clearing. On the trade reporting side, we saw the first reporting date for interest rate swaps and credit default swaps, being set as the 23rd September,

Waiting for EMIR Safe to say the general gestalt of the industry is DOUBT. Officially, companies are supposed to be sending trades over to a “Trade Repository” or TR by January 2014. We are considering taking spread bets. Here’s what we learned from Dodd Frank in the US: TR submission is inextricably linked to the