FEX - The Financial and Energy Exchange Group

The Public Interest Journalism Foundation Australia

As of May 2010 FEX is proud to have become a founding sponsor of the Public Interest Journalism Foundation.
The mission statement of the Public Interest Journalism Foundation is

The Foundation promotes and enables innovation in public interest journalism. It develops and tests emerging models of journalism to inform an engaged and accountable society. Our guiding principle is public interest through knowledge development, collaboration and sustainability. We act with integrity, honesty, transparency and independence.

Authorised participants using Mercari Direct can access a variety of different logs, histories, communication records and participation statistics. Mercari’s commitment and obligation is to store this data for 7 years. Mercari also allows for 4 other access status levels other than “Dealer”. “Manager” status allows access to all screens and logs for review with the ability to trade. Desk managers can use this to log in at any time from anywhere (subject to remote authorisation) to see what his traders are doing real time. Compliance officers are also able to log in and review trades, their timing, their pathways to execution and any associated chat correspondence. Mercari’s records all direct line phone conversations which can be quickly reviewed at any time.

Back and Middle office authorisation allows convenient on line access to trade data and histories that can easily be downloaded in custom Excel files.

Time stamped audit Logs retained for 7 years include: