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Changes at CME Europe and Australia Explained 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

Going Virtual? Plan, Test, and Repeat… 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 staring us in the

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

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

If you look over the last 20 years or so, data warehouses are well known as a fertile place to wreck your career. And yet, in the corporate word it’s only a matter of time before someone says it: “We need to build a data warehouse.” Keeping up with scope creep is the killer. New

Data Warehouse ETL: Extract, Transform and Load Data Warehouse ETL is a series of processes that: Extract data from across an organization Transform data to facilitate consumption Load data a relational or non-relational data store All for the purpose of facilitating business intelligence, reporting, analysis, data science, and other activities. Let’s Unpack This:  Problem: It’s

Data Wrangling: Navigating Mapping “Just give me the raw data, Bob.” That could be the catchphrase of the year. The days of cube reporting, locked down databases and IT generally holding data hostage are over. In its place, non-coders are taking MS Power BI, Tableau, Spotfire (pick your poison) to new levels.  Just give us