The Karn Group Inc. (TKG)

The Karn Group (TKG) offers a comprehensive Web based tool set to assess the fair value of Fixed Income transactions and keep you prepared for examinations in an increasingly demanding regulatory environment. Product offerings include Fair Value and Commissions analysis, MSRB Rule G-18 and G-14 Oversight, Real-time pricing services of Municipal and Corporate Bonds and Auto Bidding of Bids Wanted, and pricing of Offerings from Inventory for Municipal and Corporate Bonds. TKG's Equity Compliance, Best Execution and Trade Surveillance solutions for Broker Dealers and Market Centers, offer Best-Ex Statistical Analysis, Regulation NMS 605 and 606 reporting, as well as the all aspects of the new Tick Size Pilot reporting. Trade Surveillance solutions offer sophisticated visual display and workflow management for customized class and rankings, a Rules Engine (detection of predefined activity), Insider Trading Ahead of News, Marking the Close Market Manipulation Monitoring, Wash Trade Monitoring, Reg-M 105 Monitoring, and Spoofing and Layering Monitoring. Ted Karn, President and Founder of TKG, is well known within the Fixed Income market successfully producing useful and innovative compliance solution offerings. Ted is previously best known as the President and Founder of Market Systems, Inc (MSI) where for 14 years he led MSI to become the market leader in providing SEC Best Execution reporting, statistics and regulatory reports to compliance officers and trading desk management to enable them to meet their compliance obligations. MSI customers included almost all major US broker dealers and clearing firms. Ted is recognized as an industry expert and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. Ted has a degree in physics from Cornell University and received his MBA in Finance from New York University's Stern School of Business.