I’m not big on New Year resolutions or on predictions. But in the case of Dodd-Frank and EMIR in Europe it’s hard to resist. The die has been cast and SDRs are a real thing now. Setting aside for the moment the master strokes about what DF and EMIR are supposed to be about, let’s […]
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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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They botched the Software Quality Assurance (QA)…stating the obvious…Res Ipsa Loquitur…(It speaks for itself). But the $400 million dollar question is HOW they botched the application QA. This is not the first time in my career I have seen this. It is the third. The first time was a UK company in the newly formed
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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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I am not sure if this is a trend yet. But it’s worth noting. Over the past couple months I have talked with a total of three major energy trading entities that all have one thing in common: Projects to “hide” the ETRM system entirely from their traders. Traders will not use, see, touch or
Architecture | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Trading System Read More »
One of our gripes with trading systems is that sometimes they just can’t properly book certain trade types. Yes, there really are trading systems out there that can’t book Futures. Yes, there really are systems out there that can’t book spread trades, options and an assortment of exchange products upon which traders have already pulled
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We work with A LOT of different systems and run into all kinds of crazy stuff. Feel free to email us your Dumb Things We Saw Today. Here is another gem: We were working with a vendor energy trading system and inputting an exchange Order ID into an Order ID Ref field. Kudos to the
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Still a ways from final Dodd-Frank Rules. But we can definitely see how they are shaping up. One issue that is certain for all companies engaged in trading: Execution Time. Here’s the issue: We were working with a client using one of the larger ETRM systems. Trades are brought in through a “Quick Fix” custom
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BroadPeak Partners today released the first version of its Exchange Fills Aggregation component for K3. “It’s one of the most irritating problems for trading management. A trader might put out an order for 100 Lots and get 6 fills. So what was once a simple trade has now become 6 trades in the ETRM system,”
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