It had been quite a while since I had spoken with Nitin Gupta, founder & CEO of Risk Edge Solutions. Now like many others, in lockdown in India and working from home, I sympathized with his remarks that there is no sense of time when working from home!...
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Pioneer Global Solutions, better known in the CTRM space as just Pioneer, announced this afternoon that they are being acquired by Hitachi ABB Power Grids. ABB had previous acquired Ventyx, which itself had acquired Global Energy Decisions and among other assets, the nMarket power settlements solution. ABB had...
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EnergyOne, the parent company of Contigo and eZ-nergy, has had a very good year especially given the background of COVID and so on, Mr. Simon Wheeler told me last week when we spoke. Its’ financial year wrapped up at the end of June and its annual report shows...
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Jan van den Brom has seen interest surge over the usually quiet summer months “Interest is up 300-400% through July and August’, he said. The demand is not just coming from prospective customers but from existing customers as well as they extend use of Agiblocks to other departments...
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Periodically, I read articles about a new breed of independent workers who were fortunate enough to combine business with location and lifestyle called ‘digital nomads’. It wasn’t lost on me that this is an apt description of myself as all I need is an internet connection and I...
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I recently had a conversation with Mr. Sanjit Paul, of iRely for a general catch up and to see how things were going over at iRely. iRely has been around for 30-years or so, providing Commodity Management and other solutions to the global market from offices located on...
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It is that time of the year when we receive emails from various media outlets telling us its our ‘lucky day’. We have been selected as one of the top 10 analyst firms in the industry and if we just cough up $5000 (or some similar amount), we...
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Recently, the Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC) in China issued an interesting notice essentially calling state-owned businesses to coordinate, integrate, and digitalize their management systems to ensure both quality and security. It also encouraged them to accelerate their move to an ‘international standard’ while emphasizing the...
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A few weeks ago, Amphora announced a deal in China with China Zhenhua Oil, one of the largest crude oil importers in China. According to Ivan O’Toole, Head of Sales & Marketing for Amphora, Amphora has followed this up with a couple of more wins in metals and...
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ComTech often gets ask to participate in various webinars in the industry including by various vendors. We are usually delighted to participate by using our analysis and research to help set the scene. Next week on September 9th, I will be doing exactly that in a Gen10 organized...
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