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Background Affiliation Status Information Center

The Background Affiliation Status Information Center (BASIC) is a database of the regulatory and non-regulatory action history of futures market participants. The BASIC database is maintained by the National Futures Association (NFA), and uses data from its membership, as well as from the CFTC and U.S. exchanges. 
BASIC access is open to anyone and is simple to navigate. To access the system, click HERE.
==History==
BASIC's origins date back to 1991, when the (NFA) introduced an online clearinghouse of disciplinary information about futures firms and individuals. The information in the database, which at that point was available only through NFA's toll-free Information Center, was contributed by NFA, the CFTC and the exchanges. Regulatory information from the NFA and the CFTC dates back to when they each began operations, 1982 and 1975 respectively. Data contributed by the exchanges dates back to at least January 1990. 
Recognizing the need to expand the content of the database and make it more accessible, NFA in 1998 created the Background Affiliation Status Information Center, or BASIC, a browser-based system. BASIC contains registration and disciplinary history for some 150,000 individuals and 10,000 firms. More than 600,000 BASIC searches are performed every year.
==FCM Financial Information==
On November 7, 2012, the NFA launched a new addition to its BASIC, the Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) Financial Information page. The goal of the initiative is to assist futures customers in their due diligence review of FCMs by making available certain financial information. The FCM information will include three reports:
*FCM Capital Report - each firm's adjusted net capital, required net capital and excess net capital from the most recent month;
*FCM Customer Segregated Funds Report - total funds held in segregation, and the percentage held in cash and each of the types of investments permitted under CFTC Regulation 1.25; and
*FCM Customer Secured Amount Funds Report - total secured funds, with the same percentage breakdowns as in the segregated funds report. 
NFA will update the capital report monthly; the segregated funds and secured funds reports will be updated on a semi-monthly basis.
==References==
Category:Broker Database
Category:MarketsWiki Page of the Day
Backstop Solutions Group

Backstop Solutions Group is a Chicago-based technology firm that offers cloud-based tools and services to institutional customers such as hedge funds, endowment funds, pensions funds and others. 
Backstop aims to simplify and streamline various time-consuming tasks such as fund research, record management, due diligence and capital raising. 
== Background ==
The firm was co-founded in 2003 by Clint Coghill as the industry's first software-as-a-service platform in the alternative investments space and received a $20 million round of funding in 2018. Backstop acquired BarclayHedge in December 2018. 
== Key People ==
*Clint Coghill, CEO and Chairman
*Jim Schuler, CFO
== References ==
Backwardation

Backwardation is a concept used in respect to the price of a futures contract and the contract's time to expire. When a market is in backwardation, the price of a near-term contract is higher than a contract with a later expiration date. This is due to the convenience yield being higher than the prevailing risk free rate and usually a sign of tight physical supplies. 
When the VIX market is in backwardation, the cost of short-term protection against market volatility is higher than the cost for long-term protection. This is considered to be a sign that investors are particularly anxious about where the market may be headed in the next few days. 
Backwardation is the opposite of contango. 
== References ==
Category: Definitions
Category: MarketsWiki Page of the Day
Baden Wright

Baden Wright is the chief executive officer of CBL Markets, formerly operated as the Carbon Trade Exchange.
== Background ==
Wright has a background in information communications technology, with over 20 years’ experience in banking & finance, telecommunications, manufacturing, airlines, power utilities and government.
At CTX, he was responsible for the overall strategy and business model of Carbon Trade Exchange, including the development and implementation of a global licensing strategy for the CTX trading platform.
== References ==	
Category:Environmental Markets
Baikal

Baikal was a London Stock Exchange’s pan-European dark pool multilateral trading facility (MTF) and liquidity aggregation service. It was combined into Turquoise when LSE bought into Turquoise.
Baikal received regulatory approval from the Financial Services Authority and began its phased roll-out in June 2009, starting with the launch of Smart Order Routing (SOR) capability. The company was combined with the LSE's acquisition Turquoise MTF in 2010. As part of the integration, Baikal and Turquoise moved from their respective TradElect and TradExpress matching engines to one from exchange technology provider MillenniumIT, which the LSE acquired in September 2009.
 
The Baikal non-display order book, launched in late 2009, used the London Stock Exchange Group’s TradElect platform.
Baikal offered smart order routing and new functionality to support block trading, but did not permit direct access to buy-side institutions. 
== History ==
Baikal Global limited was a pan-European MTF (multilateral trading facility) for the execution of non-display orders. The company was created through a joint venture between the London Stock Exchange and Lehman Brothers. However, the bankruptcy of Lehman in the financial crisis of 2008, led LSE to seek out new partners. They also considered shuttering the initiative.
== References ==
Category:Multilateral Trading Facility
Bailey Kessing

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Bailey Kessing is director, sales and relationship management, at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). She joined the company in that role in May 2021. 
She was previously head of business development for Trillium. She had been at the company in that role starting in June of 2016.
Kessing won ‘Longest Drive’ for the 3rd year running in the golf competition at FIA​ International Futures Conference 2019.
== Background ==
Before joining Trillium, Kessing worked as an analyst and in Clean Products at PBF Energy. 
== MarketsWiki Education Video == 
== Education ==
Kessing earned a degree in Economics from Southern Methodist University.
== References ==	
Category:WILD Members
Bailout

A bailout involves an injection of liquidity (capital) into a failing company or bank to prevent it from going under. This liquidity often comes from the government or a group of investors. A government bailout, or rescue package, is usually undertaken only when the authorities believe that allowing the business to collapse could have wide-ranging destructive consequences on the economy. In these instances the bank or company is often referred to as "too big to fail." 
The government's policy to bail out very large and established corporations is controversial, as it raises the issue of moral hazard.
For information on the 2008 U.S. government bailout of various financial institutions, see:
Troubled Asset Relief Program
== References ==
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Category:Definitions
Bain Capital LLC

Bain Capital LLC is a private investment firm. Its affiliates, which manage approximately $80 billion in assets, include private equity and venture capital, as well as long/short public equity, credit products and global macro hedge funds.
It was announced on Sept. 29, 2008, that the Neuberger Berman asset management business of bankrupt Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. would be sold to Bain Capital LLC and Hellman & Friedman LLC for $2.15 billion -- a lot less than original estimates. The deal included Lehman's Asset Management unit and private funds investment group, but excluded Lehman's major direct private equity businesses.
== History ==
== Products and Services ==
== Key People ==
== References ==
Category:Private Equity
Balance sheet

A balance sheet is a financial statement summarizing a corporation's liabilities (debts), assets (valuables) and overall net worth at a single point in time. Investors examine the balance sheets of publicly-listed corporations for signs pointing to future growth or possible problems when making investment decisions.
== Both sides ==
Balance sheets take their name from the fact that a corporation's assets (on the left) must equal, or balance out, its combined right side of liabilities plus shareholders' equity. Assets are usually divided into current or liquid, meaning they can easiliy be converted to cash, and non-current assets that include things like machinery or goodwill. Assets are always listed down the page from most to least liquid while liabilities are listed from short-term to long-term.
== Cash is King ==
Investors reading a company's balance sheet should focus primarily on its ability to creat liquid assets - the ultimate measure of shareholder value. The balance sheet, unlike earnings reports, will tell the investor whether the company is generating enough cash to keep funding growth and also whether it has too much money tied up in inventory or in arrears. The SEC's Edgar website distributes quarterly and yearly balance sheets for all listed companies.
Some corporations have used so-called "off-balance-sheet entities" to finance parts of their operations separately from the company's main business reporting requirements. These have fallen out of favor since the Enron scandal of 2001, although some commentators argue that they can still be employed as financing vehicles for investors who do not want to invest in a company's entire operations.
== References ==
Balbir Bakhshi

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Balbir Bakhshi joined LSEG as chief risk officer on January 2021.
In addition, he serves as a member of the boards of directors of Tradeweb Markets LLC, the LCH, and the London Clearing House.
== Background ==
Previously, Bakhshi served as group head of non-financial risk management at Deutsche Bank and was on the supervisory board at Deutsche Bank Luxembourg S.
A. as chair of its risk committee. Before that, he was global head of operational risk management at Credit Suisse Group, and held the roles of UK investment banking chief risk officer and head of the market risk group.
Bakhshi began his career at LCH as a risk analyst.
== Education ==
Bakhshi holds a Masters of Science in Finance from Brunel University, London.
== References ==
Balkan Gas Hub

Balkan Gas Hub EAD is a Bulgarian company that operates natural gas trading platforms and aims to establish a liquid gas trading hub in Southeastern Europe. It was founded in January 2019 by Bulgartransgaz EAD, the Bulgarian gas transmission system operator, to develop a gas distribution hub on the territory of Bulgaria.
== History ==
Balkan Gas Hub EAD was created to facilitate the establishment of a gas distribution hub and liquid trading platform for natural gas in Bulgaria and the wider Balkan region. Its founding aligns with the European Union's goals of building an interconnected and unified pan-European gas market, as well as the plans for developing gas infrastructure in Central and Southeastern Europe (CESEC region).
The company is part of the Memorandum of Understanding for cross-border cooperation regarding the development of an integrated natural gas market in Southeast and Eastern Europe (SEEGAS).
== Operations ==
Balkan Gas Hub EAD operates electronic trading platforms that service the natural gas markets within the Balkan gas hub. In synergy with the physical infrastructure of the gas distribution hub, it aims to provide the prerequisites for establishing a liquid, Bulgaria-based natural gas trading hub in Southeastern Europe.
The platforms offer short-term and long-term products, including spot and forward contracts, as well as auctions for natural gas trading. The company provides market participants with a natural gas trading platform with functionalities required by the EU Network Code on Gas Balancing.
== Strategic Objectives ==
Balkan Gas Hub EAD has outlined the following long-term strategic objectives:
#Enhance transparency and liquidity in the natural gas markets of Southeastern Europe.
#Create a reliable, stable, and integrated regional gas market to meet the needs of traders, customers, and users.
#Enhance energy security and create opportunities for diversifying natural gas supply sources.
#To achieve these goals, the company prioritizes further interconnection and sustainable regional cooperation between Southeastern European markets. This is intended to ensure security of supply, enhance market liberalization, and increase liquidity in national gas markets.
Its operational objectives include providing a competitive environment for traders and users, offering standardized products with minimized risks, and ensuring transparent and non-discriminatory access to the electronic platform for all market participants.
Balkan Gas Hub EAD is headquartered in Sofia, Bulgaria, and as of April 2023, it had 5 employees.
== Membership ==
 Transamision System Operators (TSOs)
Number	Member 	EIC
1 	BULGARTRANSGAZ EAD	21X-BG-A-A0A0A-C
2 	ICGB AD 	58X-ICGB-00-00-H
3 	NOMAGAS JSC Skopje	21X000000001389О
== Key People ==
== References ==
Category:Europex Members
Category:European Energy Markets
Ballista Holdings

Ballista Holdings is the parent broker-dealer of Ballista Securities. It was created in early 2007.
The firm specializes in the execution of institutional options trading, especially delta-neutral strategies with both stock and option components and block trades. In October 2008, Ballista Securities launched an options trading platform that offers traders access to displayed and non-displayed liquidity from market makers, banks and hedge funds.
 
== History ==
Ballista Holdings received a minority investment from Morgan Stanley, International Securities Exchange, Susquehanna Growth Equity and Knight Capital Group on June 9, 2009. 
== Products and Services ==
== Key People ==
== References ==
Category:Holding Companies
Baltic Exchange

The Baltic Exchange is an independent source of maritime market information for the trading and settlement of physical and derivative shipping contracts. The exchange also compiles and tracks several index products, including the flagship Baltic Dry Index, a measure of the price of shipping bulk cargoes around the world.
The Baltic Exchange was acquired by Singapore Exchange (SGX) in 2016 in a deal that valued it at 87 million pounds ($108 million).
The exchange has more than 600 member firms encompassing the majority of world shipping interests. Its members are responsible for a large proportion of dry cargo and tanker fixtures as well as the sale and purchase of merchant vessels. It is owned by about 380 shareholders, most of whom are members, and governed by a board of directors elected by shareholders and members. 
It is headquartered in London, with regional offices in Singapore, Shanghai and Athens. 
Baltic Exchange is credited with helping expand British trade during the country’s imperial heyday. 
== History ==
The Baltic Exchange traces its origins back to 1744, at a coffee house in the City of London, which served as a central meeting place for merchants and shipowners. Its first rules were established in 1823, and in 1857 became known as "The Baltic Company."In 1900 it merged with the London Shipping Exchange and became known as the Baltic Exchange. 
In 1985, the exchange launched the Baltic Freight Index, the first in a series of index products.
On 10 April 1992 the company's offices at 24-28 St. Mary Axe were destroyed by an IRA bomb in a van parked outside. Three people died, including Baltic attendant Tom Casey, and many were injured. The trading floor was rendered unusable. But they opened a trading floor several days later in Lloyds of London, and later moved to a different address on St. Mary Axe. When the 30 St. Mary Axe building ("The Gherkin") opened in 2004, the exchange moved in.
The exchange launched Baltex in June of 2011 as the first central electronic marketplace for freight forward agreements (FFA), which allow investors to take positions on freight rates at a point in the future. In August of 2017 the exchange said it would close the platform at the end of the year after a review of strategic options following an announcement by LCH to end its FFA clearing services amid low volumes. 
In February 2016, the Singapore Exchange (SGX) submitted a non-binding offer to acquire Baltic Exchange for £160.41 in cash per share, representing a total consideration of £77.6 million. In August of 2016 the Baltic Exchange agreed to be acquired by SGX and the deal was closed in November 2016. 
== Key People ==
*Mark Jackson, CEO
== References ==
Category: MarketsWiki Page of the Day
Category: Exchanges
Banc of America Securities LLC

Banc of America Securities LLC (BAS), based in New York City, is the investment banking subsidiary of Bank of America. The firm provides both institutional and retail brokerage services. It also is registered as a futures commission merchant. 
== History ==
== Products and Services ==
== Key People ==
== Registration ==
*BANC OF AMERICA SECURITIES LLC - NFA ID: 0285530
Category:Futures Commission Merchants
Category:Brokerages
Category:Exempt Foreign Firm Agents
Category:FIA Regular Members
Banco Central do Brasil

The Banco Central do Brasil (BCB) is an autonomous federal institution that is part of the National Financial System (SFN) of Brazil. Banco do Brasil acts as the government bank and is responsible for controlling foreign trade operations, executing foreign exchange operations on behalf of public sector enterprises and the National Treasury, and executing the rules set forth by the Bank for Agricultural, Industrial and Commercial Credit and the Currency and Credit Superintendence (SUMOC), the former Brazilian monetary authorities.
== History ==
The Banco Central do Brasil (BCB)was created on December 31, 1964. Before the creation of the Central Bank, the Brazilian monetary authorities were the Currency and Credit Superintendence (SUMOC), the Bank of Brazil (BB) and the National Treasury.
== Key People ==
Alexandre Antonio Tombini has been the governor of the Central Bank of Brazil since January 2011.
== References ==
Bancolombia

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The Bancolombia Group (Grupo Bancolombia) is Colombia's largest bank and its second-largest listed stock, by market capitalization and IGBC Index weighting, on the Colombia Stock Exchange. Bancolombia's monthly revenues have recently returned to growth after getting hit following the 2008 financial crisis, although the group still registered earnings growth over 2007.
== Background ==
Bancolombia was founded in 1945 in Medellin as Banco Industrial Colombiano S.A. and became known as Bancolombia in 1998 following its controversial 1997 acquisition of Banco de Colombia. Bancolombia is now Colombia's largest bank with total assets of 61.8 trillion Colombian pesos at December 2008, a rise of almost 18.5% year-on-year. It also holds more than 21% of Colombia's checking accounts and loans, 19.7% of its savings accounts and 19% of its total deposits as of Q1 2009.
Bancolombia is one of the largest and most liquid stockson the Colombia Stock Exchange and had a market capitalization of US$4.6 billion as of May 4, 2009. Bancolombia is also major component of the CSE's benchmark IGBC index - its combined regular and preferred stock made up just over 16% of the IGBC weighting at the end of 2008 and 20% of the rival FTSE Colombia 20 Index, on a par with IGBC Index leader Ecopetrol.
== Key people ==
Bancolombia President Jorge Londoño Saldarriaga has served in the post since 1996 after spending three years on the bank's board of directors while serving as CIO of Suramericana de Seguros S.A. Prior to that he served as CEO of stockbroker Suvalor S.A. and also served as year from 1983 to 1984 as Secretary of Finance of the city of Medellin. In early 2007 Saldarragia was placed under house arrest by the attorney general over a fraud and misconduct investigation into the 1997 acquisition of Banco de Colombia. However, in late April 2009 the attorney general issued an order barring further criminal investigation of Saldarriaga. 
== Latest news ==
Bancolombia recently announced that its first-quarter net income rose just over 9% between 2008 and 2009 despite the fall-out from last year's financial crisis that battered Colombian capital markets. The group's first quarter net interest income rose 19.7% on 2007 while net fee/service income climbed 9.5%. Previously, Bancolombia had announced an 18.7% increase in yearly earnings between 2007 and 2008 and a 17.7% rise in total equity over the period. 
== References ==
Bancor

The Bancor Foundation is an organization that promotes the Bancor Protocol, a cryptocurrency platform. The foundation is based in Zug, Switzerland.
== Background ==
Bancor is named after a supranational currency proposed by John Maynard Keynes and E.F. Schumacher in the 1940s in the United Kingdom.
Bancor held an initial coin offering (ICO) in June 2017, raising $153 million, more than any other ICO in 2017. Among its early investors was Tim Draper, a venture capitalist who in 2014 allegedly bought 30,000 bitcoins from a U.S. government auction.
In July 2017, hackers stole $23.5 million from the Bancor Network, although no users' wallets were targeted in the attack.
In April 2020, Bancor investors filed a lawsuit against the BPprotocol Foundation, the parent company of Bancor, in Israel for selling unlicensed securities, engaging in market manipulation, and selectively withholding information from investors. Lawyers representing BProtocol argued the case should be resolved in the U.S. due to the "international" nature of the complaint.
In June 2020, Bancor users began reporting lost funds. The total amount of reported losses were worth approximately $460,000. Bancor's security team later announced that it may have been due to the newly-implemented BancorNetwork v0.6 smart contract protocol, and provided instructions to affected users for how to recover their lost digital assets.
== Products and Services ==
The Bancor Protocol is a digital payment system that uses "smart tokens." "Smart tokens" are digital tokens with broadly fungible value that are designed to be easy to liquidate. This is because the tokens have smart contracts built into them. These smart contracts are designed to enable automatic price determination with other cryptocurrencies that are linked to the smart token through a "connector," or a digital connection between multiple tokens. Bancor's smart tokens operate as ERC-20 tokens based on the Ethereum platform.
=== Local African Cryptocurrency ===
Bancor is funding the Gatina-pesa crypto project. The project is an attempt to digitally tokenize the Gatina-pesa, a local currency designed to help stimulate the economies of low-cashflow areas in Kenya.
=== Cross-Chain Trading ===
Bancor's trading platform was designed to provide liquidity for crypto-to-crypto transactions through use of its native BNT token. In a Bancor trade of REP for ZRX, for example, Bancor trades REP for BNT and then BNT for ZRX. In contrast, on other platforms one trades Ether instead of BNT creating extra on-chain transactions which are costlier and slower. 
== Key People ==
*Bernard Lietaer - Foundation Council President 
*Tim Draper - Venture Capitalist, Advisory Board Member
==References==
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Category:altcoins
Category:Trading
Category:CryptoMarketsWiki