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We’ve had a lot of discussion with customers about how compliance should implement a wash trade compliance.  Let’s start from the top: What is a Wash Trade? Well, the CFTC defines a wash trade as: “Entering into, or purporting to enter into, transactions to give the appearance that purchases and sales have been made, without incurring

REMIT CHECKLIST Another great article [HERE] by Aviv Handler at the Energy Trading Regulation blog… Some takeaways if you are trading phys gas and power in Europe. 90 Days to Go! Don’t forget to check into key personnel time off. Summer and the back half of September are full of holidays! Talk to your OMPs

Here’s a quick video explaining how REMIT works and how to generate ACER XML for trade reporting.  If you are having trouble with the video below click this link. Enjoy! https://vimeo.com/131881897

New Q&A from ACER.  Commentary by Aviv Handler http://energytradingregulation.com/2015/07/01/examining-the-new-remit-quarterly-and-qa-documents/

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 night. OMP Fragmentation & Uncertainty =

We are growing strong at BroadPeak and looking to hire some more key team members.  Do you have experience integrating systems?  Are you a code jedi?  Do you love clojure or other functional languages? Besides the obvious analytical skills that a good developer must have, we particularly look for folks who like having impact on big

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 on exchanges like NYSE. A developer moved an

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 a moment, and head

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

Here is a great article discussing future transformations for designers.  The future is all about Data.  So if you aren’t yet tired of hearing about BigData, you may soon hit your breaking point.  If this article is correct, it’s only going to be a growing phenomenon. The question for leaders is… How are you empowering