Cryptographically Sealed Market Data Compliance

QuantumEM

The only market data expense management platform with sub-millisecond C++20 entitlement checks, AI contract parsing that runs entirely on-prem, and a SHA-256 hash-chained audit ledger regulators can verify. Part of the Quantum Family alongside QuantumTick Database (29 MCP tools) and QuantumTrade (10 MCP tools) — 65 tools total, one closed compliance loop. Replaces $250K–$2M/year Java incumbents. 91% cost reduction. Days to deploy, not months.

QuantumEM | compliance-01.prod
[14:02:03] Uploaded: LSEG_Elektron_MSA_2026.pdf (62 pages)
[14:02:04] Parsing contract via local Ollama LLM…
[14:02:51] Extracted 47 clauses, 12 user classes, 8 feeds
[14:02:51] Reconciling against live DACS state…
 
[14:02:52] CRITICAL: User j.smith: real-time feed, contract says non-pro
[14:02:52] HIGH: Desk EMEA-RATES: 47 licensed, 52 active
[14:02:52] HIGH: Contract CTR-00412 expired 2026-03-31 (DACS live)
 
[14:02:53] Sealed RPT-2026-00412 into ledger
sha256: 454000bc29241dc3…a78e92da2e39000e71
prev: b8f3a1e0…c94
contract parse: 47s (local LLM, zero egress)
reconcile: 0.8ms (C++ native)
<1ms
Entitlement Check Latency
65
Combined MCP Tools (Quantum Family)
91%
3-Year Cost Reduction vs Incumbents
SHA-256
Hash-Chained Audit Ledger

Two-Stage Compliance Engine

AI-assisted contract ingestion meets deterministic rule evaluation. Every violation is grounded in your actual contract language and your live entitlement state — never fabricated, never stale.

1

Local-LLM Contract Ingestion

Upload a 60-page Reuters, Bloomberg, or exchange master agreement. A local Ollama model extracts parties, effective dates, user classifications, permitted feeds, billing tiers, audit obligations, and prohibited uses into a structured entitlement model. The parse itself is sealed into the audit ledger so regulators can re-verify it.

  • Extracts FISD-aligned clauses: professional/non-pro rules, display vs. non-display, derived data, redistribution
  • Computes a FISD CRISP score (0–100) across 10 standard clause categories
  • Confidence score per field, with ambiguous clauses flagged for human review
  • Runs entirely on-prem. Zero data egress. Passes bank InfoSec the first time.
  • Replaces the 6-month professional-services onboarding incumbents require
2

Deterministic Rule Evaluation

A native C++ rule engine continuously reconciles parsed contract terms against live DACS and DART state. Violations are detected in sub-millisecond time and written to a SHA-256 hash-chained immutable ledger.

  • Rule 1: Non-professional user receiving real-time feed → CRITICAL
  • Rule 2: Active user count exceeds licensed maximum by +10% → HIGH
  • Rule 3: Contract expired but entitlements still live → HIGH
  • Rule 4: Historical data volume exceeds contractual cap → CRITICAL
  • Rule 5: Unregistered downstream application observed in DACS → MEDIUM
  • Rule 6: FISD / DART declaration overdue beyond grace period → MEDIUM

End-to-End Compliance Pipeline

From signed contract PDF to hash-chained regulator evidence, every step runs on your infrastructure with no external dependencies.

Contract Intake

PDF/DOCX master agreements parsed by local Ollama LLM

DACS + DART Sync

Live polling of LSEG entitlements and declarations

Reconciliation

Sub-ms C++ diff of contract terms vs. live state

Sealed Ledger

SHA-256 hash-chained, UNIQUE-constrained, append-only

MCP + REST + UI

26 MCP tools, 35+ REST routes, live dashboard

Purpose-Built for Market Data Compliance

Not a general ledger, not a generic SaaS. Every capability is engineered for the exact shape of the market-data-expense-management problem: contracts, entitlements, declarations, and the regulatory evidence chain that holds them together.

AI Contract Parser (On-Prem Ollama)

Upload Reuters, Bloomberg, ICE, CME, or S&P master agreements. A local LLM extracts parties, effective/expiry dates, user classifications, permitted feeds, billing tiers, audit obligations, redistribution rules, and prohibited uses into a structured entitlement model. The parse itself is sealed into the audit ledger.

Live DACS Integration

Native Open DACS C++ SDK wrapper with background polling, thread-safe entitlement store, and SHA-256 fingerprinting of every snapshot. Ships with a complete stub path so teams without DACS credentials can develop, test, and demo against realistic data.

DART Declaration Sync

HTTP client for LSEG's DART Web Service pulls entitlement sets, concurrent controls, and declaration status. Fingerprinted on every poll. Drives DART-overdue violations into the compliance engine automatically.

Compliance Engine & Rule Catalog

Six production rules out of the box: over-entitlement, wrong user classification, expired contract with live access, user-count overshoot, volumetric overrun, unregistered downstream application, and declaration overdue. Severity-graded (Critical, High, Medium, Low, Info) with estimated USD liability per violation.

SHA-256 Hash-Chained Ledger

Every report seals into an append-only SQLite ledger with sha256_hash TEXT NOT NULL UNIQUE enforced at the schema level. Each report links to the prior report's hash, so any tampering breaks the chain. One-click full-chain integrity verification. No incumbent offers this.

Native MCP Server

26 registered tools over the Model Context Protocol. Claude Code, in-house agents, and RPA bots can say “reconcile all fixed-income users against the Bloomberg contract, file the DART amendment, and seal the declaration” — and it executes. A structural moat incumbents can't match for 2–3 years.

FISD CRISP Scorer

Every parsed contract gets a FISD CRISP score (0–100) across ten standard clause categories: user classification, permitted/prohibited uses, redistribution, derived data, audit obligations, entitlement scope, billing, termination, and AI/ML training. Identifies weak contracts before an auditor does.

Unit-Economics Dashboard

Per-user, per-feed, per-desk cost transparency with drill-down to the exact contract clause driving every dollar. CFO-grade chargeback reporting without the custom-report engagement incumbents charge for separately.

Expiry & Renewal Intelligence

Forward-looking index of every clause's expiry, renegotiation window, and auto-renew trigger. Monte Carlo cost projections under renew/cancel scenarios. Turns compliance from a cost center into a negotiation lever for the market-data procurement team.

10× Better Than Anything Else On The Market

The MDEM category is dominated by a post-acquisition consolidator running a 15-year-old tech stack (TRG Screen), an EMEA runner-up in post-merger drift (Calero-MDSL), and vendor-captive tooling that only covers its own data (Bloomberg BPS, LSEG DACS/DART). A handful of 2023–2025 AI startups circle the space but cannot land at tier-1 banks because they're SaaS-only with external LLM calls that fail InfoSec review. QuantumEM is built to win on five dimensions simultaneously.

Capability QuantumEM TRG Screen
MDM / FITS / Optimize
Calero-MDSL
ResearchMonitor / MDM
Bloomberg BPS
+ Vault
AI Startups
Norm, Hadrius, etc.
Entitlement-check latency < 1 ms (C++20) ~100 ms+ (Java) ~100 ms+ (Java) Opaque Network-bound
Contract ingestion Local LLM, minutes Manual, 6 months+ Manual + OCR N/A Cloud LLM only
Audit trail SHA-256 hash-chained Mutable RDBMS logs Mutable RDBMS logs WORM (comms only) Mutable
DACS reconciliation cadence Real-time (< 1 min) Overnight batch Overnight / weekly N/A N/A
MCP / agentic interface 26 native tools None None None Partial (cloud)
Deployment model On-prem + 4 clouds On-prem / hosted Hosted SaaS Bloomberg only Cloud only
Cross-vendor coverage LSEG + Bloomberg + ICE + CME + S&P + alt Yes (fragmented suite) Yes (bolted together) Bloomberg only Limited
Annual TCO (tier-1 bank) Flat license $250K – $2M+ $200K – $1.5M+ Bundled (terminal) Seat-based SaaS
Onboarding time Days 6–12 months 4–9 months Weeks (cloud ingest)
The “10×” is defensible on three dimensions where the gap is an order of magnitude, not a percentage:
Performance — C++ vs. Java (100×) Onboarding — minutes vs. months (1,000×) Evidentiary rigor — hash-chained ledger vs. mutable logs (qualitative, regulator-demanded)

Single Pane of Glass for Compliance

Every KPI, every open violation, every contract-expiry, every DACS/DART fingerprint — rendered live from the C++ server, fully responsive, dense enough for a compliance floor.

CONTRACTS
412
USERS
28,461
COMPLIANCE
97.3%
CRITICAL
7
LIABILITY
$284K
REPORTS
1,847
SEVERITY
VIOLATION
USER / DESK
CONTRACT
LIABILITY
DETECTED
CRITICAL
Real-time on non-pro user
j.smith / EMEA-RATES
CTR-00412 (LSEG)
$42,300
2m ago
CRITICAL
Historical volume > cap
quant-research-07
CTR-00198 (BBG BVAL)
$118,000
14m ago
HIGH
Licensed users +10%
APAC-FI desk
CTR-00287 (ICE)
$74,500
38m ago
HIGH
Expired w/ live entitlement
ops-kiosk-09
CTR-00041 (CME)
$49,100
1h ago

Contract-to-Entitlement Diff

Side-by-side rendering of a parsed contract clause next to the live DACS permission it maps to, with a red/green delta. Auditors can literally point at the screen and see compliance. Nothing in TRG, MDSL, or DACS produces this artifact.

Compliance Moment Snapshots

At any instant, seal a signed bundle proving "at 14:03:22 UTC on 2026-04-14, user X held entitlement Y under contract Z, verified against DACS state hash H." The evidentiary primitive regulators have been asking for.

One-Click Audit Package

Export a signed .zip containing the ledger segment, original contracts, DACS snapshots, DART declarations, and reconciliation reports — the exact bundle an SEC or FCA examiner actually asks for.

Live KPI Poll & Badges

Frontend auto-refreshes KPIs every 60s, violations every 120s, DACS/DART status every 30s. Abort controllers cancel in-flight requests on navigation. Dense data tables with sortable columns and status pills.

Drag-and-Drop Contract Upload

Drop a 60-page master agreement onto the upload zone. Real AI parsing progress displays live as the local LLM extracts clauses. When done, the parsed terms are rendered next to the raw PDF for review before sealing.

Regulator-Ready Exports

Every report, every violation, every audit log entry exports as canonical JSON with deterministic key ordering so the SHA-256 stays stable. Parquet export for analytics pipelines. Open schema, no lock-in.

Five Things No Competitor Has

These aren't nice-to-haves. They are the features auditors, procurement teams, and compliance engineers tell us are missing from every other MDEM product on the market.

Unique

Agentic Compliance via MCP

Natural-language orchestration of the entire compliance workflow. Claude Code or an in-house agent can say “investigate the over-entitlement alert on desk EMEA-RATES, pull the relevant contract clauses, draft the remediation ticket, and file the FISD amendment” — and QuantumEM's 26 MCP tools execute it. The product becomes the substrate for compliance AI, not a competitor to it. A structural moat for 2–3 years.

Unique

Cryptographic Compliance Moments

At any instant, generate a signed, hash-chained bundle proving “at 14:03:22 UTC on 2026-04-14, user X held entitlement Y under contract Z, verified against DACS state hash H.” The evidentiary primitive regulators have been asking for. MiFID III consultation drafts (2025) are moving toward explicitly demanding this class of proof. QuantumEM produces it natively; every incumbent is still on mutable RDBMS logs.

  • SHA-256 chain: each report links to the prior; any tampering breaks the chain
  • Schema-enforced immutability: sha256_hash UNIQUE NOT NULL at the DB layer
  • DACS and DART fingerprints: every snapshot is content-addressed
  • Contract-parse trace sealed: auditors can re-verify the LLM parse deterministically
  • One-click audit package export: signed .zip, the bundle an SEC / FCA examiner asks for
  • Canonical JSON: sorted-keys output so hashes are reproducible across hosts

InfoSec-Review-Ready Out of the Box

QuantumEM is built for the review board that killed the last cloud-native MDEM pilot. No external dependencies, no LLM API calls, no telemetry, no phone-home. Everything runs inside your perimeter. Every sensitive operation is logged into the cryptographic chain.

On-Prem by Default, Air-Gap Capable

The C++ server, SQLite ledger, local Ollama LLM, DACS wrapper, and frontend all run inside your network. No external network access is required for any core workflow. Passes bank InfoSec review the first time.

Hash-Chained Immutable Ledger

Every report seals with a SHA-256 hash that references the prior report's hash. Tampering with any past record breaks the chain on verification. Schema-level UNIQUE constraint prevents hash collision insertion. No incumbent produces this primitive.

DACS & DART Snapshot Fingerprinting

Every entitlement-store and DART snapshot gets a canonical SHA-256 fingerprint. Snapshots are content-addressed; duplicate pulls are deduplicated; every compliance report embeds the exact fingerprints of the DACS and DART state it was evaluated against.

Append-Only Audit Log

Every poll, every parse, every violation, every report generation, every config change is written to an append-only audit_log table with ISO-8601 UTC timestamps, component, action, and optional user ID. Nothing in QuantumEM deletes, nothing overwrites.

Prepared-Statement SQL, Always

Every database write uses SQLite prepared statements with parameterized binding. Zero string concatenation in the SQL path. SQL-injection surface is structurally eliminated at the data layer — not “we check for it,” structurally impossible.

Hardened systemd Deployment

Ships with a locked-down unit file: NoNewPrivileges, ProtectSystem=strict, ProtectHome, PrivateTmp, PrivateDevices, MemoryDenyWriteExecute, RestrictAddressFamilies=AF_INET AF_INET6 AF_UNIX, empty capability set. Runs as a dedicated unprivileged quantumem user.

Beyond Detection: Automate, Forecast, Negotiate

35+ REST Endpoints

Full API surface over Drogon. Routes for DACS state, DART state, contracts (CRUD + re-parse), compliance violations, compliance runs, reports (generate, retrieve, verify, chain-verify, export), dashboard KPIs, spend trend, vendor breakdown, activity feed, settings. OpenAPI documented. Integrate with your existing pipelines in a day.

26 MCP Tools for Agents

Namespaced tool catalog — dacs_*, dart_*, contract_*, compliance_*, report_*. Every tool accepts JSON, returns JSON, and errors cleanly with MCP envelope formatting. Ships with a Claude Desktop config snippet for instant activation.

CRISP / FISD Declaration Automation

Direct DART integration plus automated generation of non-display, derived-data, and professional-classification declarations. Every filing is accompanied by the cryptographic proof chain that produced it — exchange auditors can verify the underlying evidence in seconds, not days.

Contract Expiry Intelligence

Forward-looking view of every clause's expiry, renegotiation window, and auto-renew trigger. Daily scheduled status recomputation flags contracts at 30, 60, and 90-day horizons. A budget-timing tool, not just a compliance tool.

Estimated-Liability Scoring

Every violation carries a computed estimated_liability_usd based on the contract's billing tier, overage rate, and the magnitude of the delta. Compliance teams prioritize by dollar risk, not severity label. CFO gets a real number, not "HIGH."

Open Schema, Zero Lock-In

Every table is plain SQLite. Every export is canonical JSON or Parquet. Contract models are documented. MCP tool definitions are public. Pull ten years of contract data out in an afternoon — paradoxically, this wins enterprise trust that closed competitors can't match.

Nine Targets, One Codebase

Every target validated with 72/72 unit tests. Static Linux binary with zero dependencies. Terraform for all four major clouds. Synology NAS for on-prem edge.

RHEL 8 / 9
Signed RPM + systemd
Windows 10 / 11
WiX MSI + Service
Docker
Multi-stage, UBI 9
AWS
Terraform (EC2 + EBS)
Azure
Terraform (VM + MD)
GCP
Terraform (GCE + PD)
OCI
Terraform (Compute + Block)
Synology DSM 7+
SPK Package
Air-Gapped
Offline RPM + stub

Data + Governance + Trading = Closed Regulatory Loop

Three products, one unified MCP surface. Prove that every piece of market data consumed by every user in every trading application was contractually authorized, at every moment in time, with cryptographic evidence. No other vendor closes this loop.

QuantumTick Database

29 MCP Tools · What data do we have?

Ultra-low-latency tick capture and distribution. 54+ feed handlers, sub-microsecond storage, ANSI SQL with financial extensions, 50M+ ticks/sec/core.

QuantumEM

26 MCP Tools · Are we allowed to have it?

Contract parsing, DACS/DART reconciliation, compliance engine, SHA-256 audit ledger, cost attribution, FISD CRISP scoring. The governance layer.

QuantumTrade

10 MCP Tools · What are we doing with it?

Multi-asset trading platform. OMS, risk management, settlement, AI agents for execution and compliance. Pre-trade entitlement checks via QuantumEM.

65 tools total · 7 integration hooks · One natural-language workflow across all three products

Flat License. No Hidden Costs. 91% Savings.

No per-user fees. No per-core fees. No professional services dependency. AI contract parsing eliminates the $150K–$400K onboarding engagement. The license IS the total cost.

STARTER
$25K/year
<500 users
<50 contracts
Single instance
Community support
MOST POPULAR
PROFESSIONAL
$75K/year
500–5,000 users
<200 contracts
Multi-instance
Dedicated support
ENTERPRISE
$150K/year
5,000–50,000 users
Unlimited contracts
4-hour SLA
Custom integrations
GLOBAL
$250K/year
50,000+ users
Multi-region
On-site support
Executive QBRs

Every tier includes all 35+ REST endpoints, all 26 MCP tools, AI contract parser, SHA-256 ledger, all 9 deployment targets, and Quantum Family integration hooks.

Even our most expensive tier equals the LOW END of TRG Screen — before their $150K–$400K professional services engagement.

Stop Paying $2M a Year for a 2010s Stack.

QuantumEM replaces mutable RDBMS audit logs with a cryptographic chain, replaces 6-month professional-services onboarding with drag-and-drop AI contract parsing, replaces overnight DACS reconciliation with sub-millisecond C++ checks, and replaces UI-only workflows with 65 MCP tools across the Quantum Family. 91% cost reduction over 3 years. On-prem. InfoSec-ready. No external LLM calls. One integrated product instead of the TRG + MDSL + DART + spreadsheets stack that owns your compliance floor today.

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