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UAE data sources

Where each piece of information comes from.

GTN (Global Trading Network)​

Covers: US-equity trades + USD custody.

What the ledger reads:

  • Funding wires (deposits / withdrawals)
  • Executed orders (with brokerage + SEC + TAF fees BUNDLED into the price)
  • Dividends + US withholding tax
  • Monthly cash statements
  • Live portfolio + balance snapshots

Special: bundled fees. GTN doesn't itemize brokerage — it bakes the fee into the executed price. The ledger posts a placeholder cost on ingest and a follow-up recost job splits it into GTN's share, Valura's share, and regulatory fees.

ZAG / Aldar (UAE local)​

Covers: AED cash + AED equity holdings.

What the ledger reads:

  • Transactions (cash moves, trades, itemized fees)
  • Live balances + portfolio

Special: AED / USD peg. AED is USD-pegged (default rate 3.6725). Every AED transaction is USD-normalized on ingest so the trial balance is single- currency.

OGold​

Covers: Physical gold custody + trades.

Simpler surface. Gold has no dividends or withholding tax. Trades post as buy/sell against the gold custody and gold customer-liability accounts.

Private markets​

Covers: Illiquid private-security custody.

No live external system to reconcile against — holdings live purely in the ledger.

The write path — cash requests​

The ledger has a small write-path for manual deposits and withdrawals:

  • Ops creates a cash request (a pending transaction).
  • When the broker confirms the money moved, ops confirms it → posts to the ledger.
  • If the broker rejects it, ops fails it → no posting.

This exists so any cash movement not initiated by the broker's API still gets into the ledger cleanly.

Reconciliation partners​

Every source above except OGold + private markets has a live reconciliation check that ties the ledger's totals against the broker's own view. See Reconciliation.