PLD & EOPLD – The industry standard for exchange and regulatory position limit compliance

Databank includes globally aggregated database which continuously tracks positions limits and related data such as accountability levels, reporting levels, and contract aggregation and calculation rules for all exchange traded derivatives

PLD is further segregated into the three primary timeframes and MiFID fields:

• Spot: the time before a contract expires where limit come into effect


• Single Month: limits / levels applicable on a single expiry


• All Months: Limits / levels applicable to all contract months combined


• MiFID: limit structure applicable to all commodities traded on EU venues, is applicable at two timeframes
  
  
  
  • Spot & Other Months: All contract months outside of the current “spot” month
  
  

Foreign Security Futures & Products – Safely determine foreign security trade eligibility for US based investors

Strict regulatory controls on client trading of foreign security futures gave rise to the need for transparency. FIA Tech aggregates data from a global population of indices, prepares the analysis of underlying derivatives, and provides FCMs and their clients a reliable classification of broad vs narrow index composition.

Over 600 derivative indices covered and results published monthly:

• Summarized view of classification by exchange


• Number of indices “At Risk” by exchange


• Threshold control & percent foreign volume checks


• Full detailed analysis of each index including:
  
  
  
  • Exchange, Region, Country, Contract Name, Symbol, Index Provider, Underlying Index
  
  
  • # of Constituents, Top Individual Weight, Top 5 Weight, Bottom 25% Check
  
  
  • Broad/Narrow Classification
  
  
  • Identifying primary trading market – 90/55 Rules (Percentage)

Cash and Collateral

• Globally collated dataset of acceptable collateral sourced from directly from our CCP partners.


• A standardized, aggregated view of collateral instruments accepted by CCPs along with a number of associated relevant static data points including haircuts, concentration limits, and acceptable criteria for the collateral instruments.


• Machine readable formats for regular/seamless upload into internal systems


• Allows for a dramatic reduction in manual processes to source this data

Corporate Actions

• Globally aggregated database which continuously tracks corporate actions announced on equity derivative exchanges.


• Accurately process position changes and amend the impacted derivative contracts by incorporating up to date and reliable information.


• Corporate action examples like splits, dividends, mergers, spinoffs can all impact the product symbology, multipliers, strikes, and prices. For this initiative, we have partnered with a data vendor to provide the event data.