Last week, I had the pleasure of moderating two separate panel discussions around CTRM at Commodities people’s Commodity Trading Week . I was struck by the expertise of the two panels and how short the time was for really getting to grips with the issues we discussed. Certain...
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With the acquisition of Pioneer Solutions LLC by Hitachi ABB Power Grids, first announced in September of last year, Pioneer’s Financial and Regulatory Risk Management (FARRMS) technology platform has joined Hitachi’s broad Energy Portfolio Management software solution set that covers planning, forecasting, trading, portfolio optimization and market operations...
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Recently, Contigo appointed Martin Thomas as Product Manager. Martin joined Contigo with over 20-years of experience in retail and wholesale operations in the UK and European energy markets, and with extensive knowledge of the systems and technologies used to support those operations. As Product Manager, Martin is responsible...
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The CTRM and Commodity Management (CM) marketplace seems to be quite active at the moment, and iRely is also very busy with a lot of possible deals, RFP responses, and implementations of recent wins, Sanjit Paul told me last week. “Mid to large companies appear to be ramping...
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eZ-nergy recently announced its fully automated auction bidding module saying in an accompanying announcement, “In the last few years, the rise of traded volumes on intraday power markets has meant that software providers have focused strongly on automated and algo trading solutions for continuous intraday markets. As such,...
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Welcome to the CTRMCenter’s new look. It may look a bit different but under the hood, the site is still pretty much the same with all the content as before. Please do note the additional menu items to the left of CTRMCenter logo where you see the three...
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CubeLogic has put out a series of announcements over the last couple of years signaling its broadening of focus beyond credit. These included the acquisition of FERDEC and a partnership with Numerix for advanced risk analytics, and much more. I recently talked with Ian Sloggett, sales director at...
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Three years ago, the disruptive technologies report found that cloud was broadly accepted, that data management and AI/ML were being invested in and that blockchain was still years away. Is that still true? Cloud is almost certainly in the rearview mirror but is blockchain any closer to being...
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Reading an article by John Kemp at Reuters this morning about how it has been the poor performance of the oil majors in recent years and decades that have made them more vulnerable to activist shareholders reminded me of something I had seen in Amphora’s recent newsletter. The...
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Back in late 2018, I had a briefing and demonstration from Commodities Engineering of its Balsamo software product. Last week, we got an update on the company and its product. Now 10-years into its mission, Commodities Engineering has been adding customers and functionality to its platform, which is...
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