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Read Aviv Handler’s CTR post on REMIT’s criminal investigation. Aviv Handler over at the CTR blog makes a great point. Don’t be distracted by REMIT reporting when sanctions for insider trading and market manipulation are in force now. See his article here. We’ve been busy implementing K3 Surveillance Monitoring and would be happy to show […]
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Wash Trades | Your Questions Answered We’ve been getting a TON of questions about our Wash Trade blog post. What do you mean when you say my traders are trading as the FCM? Let’s say my company is ABC Energy. I have 100 Traders and an FCM called FCMBANK. When my traders execute trades via
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Let’s talk Wash Trade Compliance 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
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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
Trade Reporting under REMIT The fundamental axis of REMIT reporting is use of ACER XML. This video short explains how the REMIT reporting process works and how to generate ACER XML using K3 for trade reporting. If you are having trouble with the video below click this link. Enjoy! https://vimeo.com/131881897
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New Q&A from ACER. Examining the new REMIT Quarterly and Q+A documents Commentary by Aviv Handler: ACER have today published both a new REMIT Quarterly and Questions and Answers document (Q+A). Here we will examine both of these and some other associated document changes, such as those to ACER’s guidance on REMIT. Read Full Article Here
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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
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BroadPeak is Hiring! 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
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Not all RRMs are created equally It’s just a matter of time… With all this global trade reporting going on and all sorts of new players entering the market, it’s just a matter of time before someone’s data gets hacked. Being able to predict trading patterns and how counterparties affect the market is an advantage
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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
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Y2.02K- The Enterprise Software User Revolt What is Y2.02K?* Don’t bother hiring Mckinsey, it doesn’t take a rocket surgeon to figure it out. All you have to do is poke around your company to identify the one thing that people absolutely HATE about their job. The thing that causes grey hair and un-necessary conflict: You’ve got
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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
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Designers will be Data Artists 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
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Choose Your Repository Wisely Came across this gem today. The DTCC’s position is that regulators must tell the trade repositories what fields they require for aggregation and what standards to maintain on them. Yes, that’s all true and makes tons of sense. Except that it’s only smart for a repository to maintain some data standards
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A user-driven integration layer between BigData stores and BI Tools is a MUST HAVE to crafting meaningful data analytics. If you are instead connecting BI Tools directly to Data Warehouses, then this is how your data analysts feel when trying to curate data stories from that hose. This article discusses how the latest from Salesforce…the
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4 Questions REMIT RRMs Don’t Want You To Ask As we move forward with REMIT there seem to be a lot of entities with stars in their eyes that they want to become an RRM. RRM is the Regulatory Reporting Mechanism under ACER that facilitates the reporting of transactions. This seems like a fairly straightforward
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The accelerated pace of technology development has brought about a deluge of confusing buzzwords. Even if you came to the smart conclusion that technology is key to your today’s competitive strategy, crafting that strategy and finding suitable vendor partners to execute it is increasingly difficult. Not only do you have to understand a growing list
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BroadPeak will be presenting at the ICE Trade Reporting workshop in Calgary next week (August 27). Who doesn’t love Calgary in the summer? With compliance officers now focusing on Canadian equivalent of Dodd-Frank regulations, the workshop is a timely resource. The workshop will give participants insight into the regulations, their likely impact as well as
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It’s not new news that BNP Paribas got tagged for nearly $USD9Bn for doing business with Iran, Sudan et al. Doing business with “Specially Designated Nationals” has been a no-no…risky…find yourself Kentucky Fried on that Counterparty since …well, forever. But there are several things happening right now that could be viewed from the beach as
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