Perspective

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

BroadPeak Announces K3 Limits update 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

What is Application Rationalization? 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

It’s time to embrace the virtual organization and cloud infrastructure 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

Three Unvarnished Truths About Trade Surveillance 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

The COVID-19 crisis has everyone talking about business resilience. What is resilience really? Admittedly, it sounds like consultancy speak, but it’s an important concept. Formally, it’s something like: The ability to not just continue operations but thrive during a crisis, with little business disruption. Boardrooms are buzzing with this topic right now. But to be

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.

BroadPeak’s commitment to customers and partners during COVID-19 crisis. 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

In defense of deliverables when working from home. Several years ago BroadPeak started an experiment. We dis-assembled the concept of a workday. No set hours. No set vacation. No requirement to work in the office. We simply focus on deliverables and only deliverables. Today’s pandemic is a sad twist on our work from home efforts. 

That’s right. AWS recently expanded its IaaS suite to include “AWS Transfer for SFTP”, which true to its name, is an SFTP service for transferring files. What’s interesting about this SFTP product is that it works as an interface between the outside world and your Amazon S3 buckets. That means you can now turn your

How to Flop at Performance Evaluations aka the 80/20 Rule I’m currently sitting on a plane watching Holiday Vacation in the background.  Clark Griswold is about to get jilted on his bonus check getting a ”jelly of the month” instead of a cash bonus. The holidays really are the absolute WORST time to do performance