Position Limits Monitoring

Invaluable to clients operating in the financial market, the FundApps’ position limit monitoring service simplifies the processes involved in ensuring regulatory compliance is maintained in the purchase and trading of financial derivatives. With limits imposed by exchanges and regulatory authorities such as the CFTC and MiFID II across the globe on an intraday basis, adhering to market rules and avoiding limit violations can prove challenging. With our intuitive position limit monitoring system, however, clients gain access to an early warning system capable of informing them where their positions are versus applicable limits.

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Global Coverage

In order to meet the needs of all our clients, the FundApps position limit monitoring system covers market and derivatives regulation rules set out by exchanges and regulators, including MiFID II and CFTC, across a wide spread of asset classes. Elements considered include position limits, accountability levels and reporting levels across spot, single, other and all month timeframes.

Interactive Results Data

An interactive, user-friendly system, results data can be viewed in our online interface and can be sorted according to result type, how close they are to limits, and by exchange. With this data available in an easily-consumable format, creating new derivatives strategies and measuring limit risk is made possible.

Front Office Monitoring

Streamline derivatives trading processes by improving the feed of information between the front and back office. With FundApps’ automated position limit software, results can be exported via API to be integrated with internal trading systems to enable pre-trade monitoring. With knowledge of relevant derivatives exchange limits and your position within them shared, more informed trading decisions and derivatives strategies can be employed.

Data Sourcing

Financial derivatives and market position limits requires access to clean and updated data. As part of our position limit monitoring service, we continually gather data from a number of sources including the FIA Tech’s Databank, trading calendar data, direct exchange data and more to ensure our system remains up-to-date and accurate at all times.

Automated Calculations

Powered by an industry-leading rules engine, our position limit monitoring software is fed by a team of legal experts and developers who work together to interpret complex limit definitions and translate them into automated calculation methodologies. Additional factors including aggregation, calendars, and netting are all considered to ensure the seamless and accurate delivery of client’s exchange traded derivatives positions.

Custom Warnings

Designed to meet the specific requirements of our clients, our position limit monitoring system allows you to create bespoke alerts so that you receive adequate warning when your positions are approaching limits, giving you sufficient reaction time to eliminate the threat of limit violations. An interactive and customisable warning system, the FundApps service can adapt to suit a variety of risk appetites.

Simple workflow

How we automate position limit monitoring for financial derivatives

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Step 1: Utilise pre-sourced, interpreted and automated position limit data across a global range of derivatives exchange markets in one easy-to-use system

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Step 2: Automatically uploaded to our cloud-based service, position files are analysed according to our intuitive rules engine in a matter of minutes, then clients are notified of their results

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Step 3: After setting up bespoke alerts clients will receive warnings when position limits are neared, or when they exceed Accountability Levels and Reporting Levels

Core Features

Reduce risk and manage your derivatives trading strategies by using the industry's leading automated process for position limits monitoring

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Data

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We recognise that without irrefutable, up-to-date information, management of derivatives strategies is impossible. As such, we ensure that all data fed into our automated position limit monitoring system is sourced directly from exchanges or the FIA Tech’s Databank, which is then combined with all relevant required data, including contract limits, calculation instructions, calendar data and more. This gives clients the confidence they need to manage risk effectively.

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Rules Engine

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With a dedicated team of in-house regulatory experts and software developers continuously updating the FundApps rule engine, clients can be assured that all coded rules that affect position limits are informed by fully-analysed data. All client-uploaded position data processed by this powerful rules engine is then analysed against our trusted ruleset.

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Integrated Workflow

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While raw, sortable data can be incredibly useful to those involved in derivatives consulting, the integrated workflow that can be implemented when using our position limit software is what makes FundApps the industry leading choice. Once checks are complete, clients are able to view, export and even integrate their results to trading systems, allowing for pre-trade monitoring.

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Why FundApps?

We help to inform derivatives trading strategies and improve risk visibility through our innovative position limit monitoring software

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Avoid fines and reputational damage

The risk of breaching thresholds poses a considerable threat to those involved in the trading and monitoring of derivatives. Regulation limits change on a regular basis and, with monetary repercussions and reputation damage on the line, having access to trusted information is essential. Our system uses data from a combination of sources, allowing us to support global exchanges, covering futures, swaps, and options safely.

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Automate the sourcing of accurate trading calendars
A complex process that requires considerable resources to complete, FundApps’ service removed the need to manually analyse trading calendars by automatically sourcing the data on our clients’ behalf. This data is interpreted by our experts and processed by our rules engine, allowing us to quickly calculate when spot month limits come into effect and alert you accordingly.

 

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Net and aggregate between contracts correctly

In order to accurately reflect current positions, we automatically convert and aggregate any contracts that are rolled up into a parent contract and have a relevant ratio. Our intelligent position limit monitoring system is capable of correctly aggregating said positions at the right contract and corporate level, ensuring results are accurate according to all provided positions.

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Related Resources

Webinar: Ongoing CFTC Rule Changes

In this webinar, we provide an overview of the CFTC rule changes and discuss cross-exchange limits.
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Traveller's Guide to Position Limits

Complying with position limit regulations is a continuous challenge. Our visual guide can help.
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Webinar: Effective of Monitoring Position Limits

In this webinar with FIA Tech, we discussed the effective monitoring and management of position limits.
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White Paper: MiFID II Position Limits

Under MiFID II position limits for commodity derivatives are set under EU-wide legislation for the very first time.
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