KX Surveillance

Protecting markets, ensuring compliance, preserving trust

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Introducing KX Surveillance

  • KX Surveillance is a high-performance trade monitoring and market abuse detection solution designed for compliance teams in financial institutions, exchanges, and regulatory bodies.
  • Built on kdb+, KX Surveillance is used extensively in high-frequency, electronic trading, delivering unparalleled speed, scalability, and fidelity for safeguarding financial markets.

Benefits

High-fidelity analysis

Analyze alerts on a tick-by-tick level greatly enhancing your trade surveillance decision-making ability.

Regulatory confidence

Streamline compliance with tools to scrutinize trading data across jurisdictions, reducing the risk of fines and reputational damage.

Real-time threat detection

Identify trading anomalies instantly with a library of prebuilt trade behavior models, ensuring quick response to suspicious activities.

Scalable performance

Process massive volumes of multi-modal data without compromising on speed or accuracy, even in the most demanding environments.

Key features of KX Surveillance

Trade anomaly library

Detect trading outliers with preconfigured models to enhance oversight and ease analysts’ workload.

Behavior insights

Build a 360° view of customer behavior by monitoring risks across products, services, payment channels, and endpoints.

Contextual investigation

Use an open platform for data modeling and case management to streamline investigations.

Integrated Platform

All toolings are built on the same platform. Delivering a seamless experience from end to end

Multi-market flexibility

Analyze real-time and historical data across FX, equities, and derivatives for a unified market view.

Auditability

Configurable on-line data retention to suite your compliance policy.

Use cases

MARKET ABUSE PREVENTION

Detect trading anomalies to protect market integrity

Proactively detect trading outliers and anomalies using advanced analytics and real-time monitoring. KX Surveillance helps financial institutions flag suspicious activities, such as unusual trade patterns, insider trading, and spoofing, by delivering actionable insights directly to compliance teams. This enables rapid investigation, ensures adherence to market regulations, and safeguards market integrity against potential abuse.

REGULATORY AUDITING

Streamline audit trails for effortless regulatory reporting

Streamline the creation of transparent and comprehensive audit trails with KX Surveillance. Simplify the process of tracking, recording, and reporting trading activities to regulators, reducing the burden on compliance teams. By automating audit workflows and ensuring data accuracy, KX Surveillance enables firms to meet regulatory obligations efficiently, avoid penalties, and build trust with stakeholders.

FIDUCIARY VALIDATION

Validate trade execution to ensure fiduciary alignment

Empower compliance teams with the tools needed to validate trade execution against fiduciary responsibilities. KX provides real-time analytics to ensure trades are executed fairly, in line with customer interests, and in adherence to regulations. By validating pricing, timing, and execution details, the platform helps firms maintain client trust, demonstrate due diligence, and mitigate compliance risks.

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