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Colonial Pipeline fiasco shines a bright light on cybersecurity

The ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline over the weekend is the type of event that should keep executives of any company operating critical infrastructure assets awake at night.  With the virus first detected in their system on Friday, the liquids pipeline system (which accounts for about 45% of...
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Artis Works Launch Folio as a SAAS Market sheet Tool

Artis Works is a disruptive new vendor that I recently became aware of and added to the resources section of CTRMCenter. Founded in May 2020 by ex-trader Sebastian Ferraccu and enterprise Architect James McMurray-Cole. The initial product is Folio, a market sheet replacement of Excel and data providers...
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Instant CTRM Out of Box?

Over the last several months, I have had many conversations across the industry in which the complexity of CTRM has been a significant point of the discussion. In a very diverse industry that ranges from small one or two-person scrap trading firms to global mega-business that are involved...
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OPINION – Just the News?

Is it just me or is it getting harder to get just the news? When I say the news, what I mean is factual coverage of newsworthy events in and around commodities, trading, risk management, supply chains, price forecasting, and so on. The sort of news I took...
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CTRM Sourcebook for 2021

The CTRM Sourcebook has become one of the staple tools people use to help them do software selections – if not THE tool. It gets downloaded more often than anything else on this website. We go through an update process every summer and we are just in the...
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Enegen – Generating Interest With its Growing Product Portfolio

Enegen Power Systems is according to its website, ‘a U.K.- based provider of scheduling, wholesale and Balancing Mechanism dispatch and commercial optimisation software that works seamlessly with its adaptive portal platform to provide a complete optimisation, dispatch and reporting system for the energy sector.’ It was formed quite...
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Operational Risks:Trade Financing Has A Systems Impact Say Gen10

A recent conversation with Richard Williamson and Bruce Tozer of Gen10 around the topic of operational risks for commodity firms highlighted a number of areas impacting firms at the moment. One of these was trade finance and so this is part one of what will be a number...
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Educating and Passing On Experience is Key Says Agiboo’s Jan van den Brom

Talking with Jan van den Brom of Agiboo is always interesting as he often has intriguing observations to impart. In recent months and years, conversations with Jan have often touched on the need for education in the industry. I don’t think I would be misquoting him in saying...
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Still Asking For Input

We are still looking for your input into our disruptive technology research. If you have 5 minutes to spare, might you give us your opinions as to how technologies are impacting or likely to impact commodity trading and markets? If so, all you need to do is go...
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Invensoft Sees AI at the Core of Commodity Management

Invensoft has a system whereby every 10-years or so, it redoes its software. “We want to fully benefit from the cloud and the latest technologies,” said Prasad Raju, founder, and CEO of the company. “The last time we did the major overhaul was 2012 and so, right now,...
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