Clarity Surveillance

The solution provides a customisable Surveillance Front End, which presents this data with a series of the following core components:

Back Testing

• Simulate and/or change parameters on historic trade data in order to arrive at the most effective set of parameters for the different alerts.
• The use of this feature is key in reducing any amount of false positives.

Watchlist Graph, Trading Graph and Broker Graph

• Trading Graph provides a graphical view of the market based on snapshots taken of buys sells trades/volumes traded.
• Broker Trading Graph provides a graphical view of the market based on snapshots taken of buys / sells / trades / volumes traded as they relate to your entity.

Market Replay

• Be able to step through a trading day on a customizable list of securities, with the ability to view full market depth on the order book with the use of various analytical windows

Best Execution Alerts

• Best execution is a legal mandate that requires brokers to provide the most advantageous order execution via execution venues (exchanges) or OTC, for their customers given the prevailing market environment.
• Internationally, The second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) aims at achieving extensive transparency over investment firms’ order execution modalities. Moreover, investment firms are soon required to install thorough reporting and monitoring mechanisms in order to evaluate whether the execution quality achieved corresponds to the quality promised in their best execution policies.
• Clarity Surveillance provides Best execution alerts.

Control Room Surveillance

• One of the objectives is for markets to operate effectively, and markets need to be fair and efficient, and investors must have trust and confidence in their operation. The proper handling of Material Non Public Information (MNPI) and management of conflicts promotes market integrity and efficiency and increases investor confidence. Members are thus required to have appropriate arrangements to handle situations where staff (including research analysts) come into possession of MNPI. To prevent MNPI being handled inappropriately, including by being passed to the sales desks or to preferred clients, members must make adequate use or supervision of restricted lists and information barriers. Clarity Surveillance provides the following:

1. Control Room Surveillance Alerts
2. Blackout Period Alerts and Reports
3. Watchlists and Restricted List Alerts

Investment Portfolio Monitoring

• Front-running is when a broker or other entity enters into a trade because they have foreknowledge of a big non-publicised transaction that will influence the price of the asset, resulting in a likely financial gain for the broker. It also occurs when a broker or analyst buys or sells shares for their account ahead of their firm's buy or sell recommendation to clients. Front-running is also known as tailgating. Front-running is illegal and unethical because it takes advantage of MNPI that is not available to the public. If a big transaction is made public, then buy or selling ahead of it is not illegal. Clarity Surveillance provides Front-running alerts to mitigate against the above risk.

Broker Event Analysis

• Highlight key trading activities (order inserts, order amendments, order cancellations, trades), with a mapping back to the Day’s Trading Graph, so you contextualize the brokers activity in actual market conditions.

Broker Trade analysis

• List of all the brokers’ trades on the given list of securities, with the mapping back to the Day’s Trading Graph, to view where the broker traded against the market. This core of the Surveillance Front End, provides a comprehensive analysis of a broker’s activity in the market, as well as providing a means for any surveillance or compliance function to monitor and analyse
• Alerts – A set of alerts can be set to trigger breaches in configurable benchmarks or thresholds.

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