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An Interview with Tim Rogers – Contigo

In this edition of Conversations with Leaders in CTRM, Gary Vasey visits with Mr. Tim Rogers, Head of Sales and Business Development at Contigo. Mr. Rogers discusses the impact of technology on a rapidly evolving market and the role of Contigo under these and future market conditions....
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An Interview with John O Malley – CEO, OpenLink

ComTech Advisory’s Patrick Reames visits with Mr. John O’Malley, CEO of OpenLink about the company’s recently announced cloud strategy....
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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Infosys Consulting’s Commodity Trading & Risk Management (CTRM) practice sits within a broader Commodity Consulting organization, and focuses on all activities in the commodity trading/risk and the logistics value chains. We cover the full range of physical and derivative commodities including the energy complex (oil, gas, power, emissions...
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Supply Chain Challenges: BIOMASS

Over the last decade, biomass of various kinds has become an increasingly commonly used fuel for electricity generation, particularly in the European Union, which mandated ambitious threshold targets for the share of renewables in total electricity generation....
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New Business Models and Consumer Focused Digital Transformations

ComTech visits with Amir Soufizadeh, Head of Commodities & Utilities Practice at BJSS. Founded in 1993, BJSS operates across the UK and USA, providing consultancy and services for the delivery of enterprise-scale IT solutions. The company’s clients include some of the world’s largest organisations including investment and retail...
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Kynetix explains Distributed Ledger Technologies and its future

ComTechAdvisory: What is Kynetix interest in Blockchain technologies? Scott Riley: There are three primary drivers to Kynetix’s interest in DLT...
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CTRM/CM as an Architecture – An Approach to A 20-year old Conundrum

Wholesale commodity trading and risk management can encompass any number of business processes and strategies, from brokered trades in which the buyer purchases some quantity of commodity and then immediately resells it at the same point for (hopefully) a profit – to multi-commodity transactions involving global supply chains,...
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ComTech Analyst Briefing Note – EKA Update 2017

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The Era of ETRM in the Cloud

Commodity Technology Advisory (ComTech) has been tracking the rise of ETRM solutions delivered in the cloud over many years. While the potential benefits and cost savings associated with ETRM in the cloud have always appeared to be robust, uptake across the industry has proven to be quite slow...
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Prove It or Else – Traceability

The commodity business has always been fraught with complexity, but under increasing scrutiny from legislators, regulators, consumers, and therefore auditors, that complexity is growing steadily and inexorably. One significant challenge in which complexity is increasing, is the need to track commodities, consumables, and fuels, from source to market....
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