Last week BroadPeak held a community event in Houston in collaboration with ICE. It’s the first in our series of fall events with the exchanges. People from all areas of trading including technology, operations, compliance, risk, etc, gathered to discuss how to get more out of their ICE trade feed. For those in the know, […]
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ICE has rolled out new eConfirm API changes! In the old ICE eConfirm API you could only send messages by file in XML. ICE gave this a nice buff with the new REST API because you can interact with it using: plain text, HTML, XML, JSON, YAML and others. It’s a big step forward. eConfirm
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Some decent size changes are afoot at the ICE. Right now your trades may be flowing into your trading and risk system just fine. But be sure to check out and see if your ICE test environment is still flowing trades. If not it is because ICE upgraded their Test environment to the new method
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First Came Swaps It all started with Swaps. Bespoke contracts to give you the desired risk profile. Trouble is finding someone who wants to be on the other side of that risk. The brokers solve that challenge by finding you a counterparty. Of course, once you find a counterparty, you are not only managing risk
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“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 this is a
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This month the Intercontinental Exchange (aka ICE) released a revised Wash Trade FAQ document. This isn’t simply arbitrary guidance. It comes after considerable review with the CFTC, who list it along with the previous edition on their site. The last version was issued a little over 6 years ago and the new edition addresses washing in context of the
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For three weeks commodities participants were left in the cold (see previous post). Today, ESMA has closed that gap and officially approved the remaining two applicants, ICE Trade Vault and CME. With everyone running to hit the February 12th deadline, Commodities participants were left in a holding pattern, as most were looking for a TR
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In case you did not already know, last week the European regulatory authority ESMA (European Securities and Markets Authority) approved 4 of the 6 applicants as official Trade Repositories (TR’s) for derivatives trade reporting under EMIR regulations. We do expect the remaining two to be approved shortly…more on that below. This means the deadline of
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StandardiZation, StandardiSation. Why can’t we all just agree??? With the Dodd-Frank SDR reporting inching slow ahead to full steam in the US, how have we fared thus far? Truthfully? Not so well! Why? Well one does not need to go any further than to take a peek at what’s on the CFTC’s mind. And what
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The CFTC issued some breaks by laying out a series of Dodd Frank “No-Action” letters. The biggies: CFTC issued a No-Action letter to prevent firms from crossing into Swaps Dealer status. The rule states that any firm doing more than $25 Million in business with “Special Entities” such as a Federal, State or Local utility
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Last week ICE announced that it is registering its products as Futures. ICE has always traded “look alike” swaps that acted and behaved just like futures. As look-alike contracts, ICE was able to stay out of the Commodity Exchange Act and the CFTC. Dodd Frank changed all of that. So ICE seems to have adopted
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It’s been a while since we’ve posted. And there is a reason for that. Dodd-Frank is finally coming to town. With the final rule for Market Classification hitting the Fed Reg on May 23d, and the final Swaps Definition hitting the deck today…. the clock has started ticking. In the commodities business it is
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