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An Interview with Michael Kirch CCO of Beacon

Dr. Michael Kirch: Mark Higgins and Kirat Singh founded Beacon in 2014 to create a modern collaborative technology environment in the world of institutional finance. Historically, financial institutions and vendors have built closed proprietary technology to solve specific business problems. At Goldman, JPM and BAML, Mark and Kirat...
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Dr Markus Seiser, FIS – ETRM in a Low Price Market Research

Commodity Technology Advisory visits with Dr. Markus Seiser, COO of FIS‘ Energy Solutions to get his insights on the recently completed study examining the impact of low energy prices on the use, utility and value of ETRM solutions....
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ETRM in a Low Commodity Price Environment

The collapse in wholesale energy prices, which began in earnest mid-year 2014, has resulted in a prolonged period of declining profits, declining trading volumes, bankruptcies in the up-stream markets, and a general malaise in the global wholesale energy markets. Though low prices are a benefit for consumers, this...
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Next Generation Integrated Treasury and Trading for Energy and Commodity Companies

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New Age Energy Markets – Challenges for Utilities, IPPs and Traders

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Responding To Continual Energy Market Change

The European power and gas industry is currently going through a period of very rapid change that has potentially far reaching consequences. While change is certainly no stranger to the industry, it requires players in the industry to constantly re-evaluate their business process and technology infrastructures in order...
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Deriving Business Value from Big Data using Sentiment analysis

‘Big Data’ are two small words that are widely used to describe the massive growth in data of all forms and that hold; the promise of delivering huge potential business impact. The question is, how? Today, and increasingly in the future, businesses are surrounded by masses of data and...
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Buy? Build? Why Not Both?

A recent survey and report by analyst firm ComTech Advisory suggests that a majority of users of ETRM/CTRM software might consider building custom software to meet their business requirements. In fact, around 70% of the survey’s respondents suggested they would consider such an option. As ComTech noted in...
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CTRM Vendor Perceptions 2016

Commodity Technology Advisory’s 2016 Vendor Perception Study was conducted to establish end-user views and perceptions of available CTRM vendors and products, including brand awareness, and to determine market leadership perceptions as well as buying criteria and demand levels. The research, conducted via a web-based survey, was comprised of...
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Steve Hughes – President & CEO, Aspect

In this episode of Conversations with Leaders in CTRM, Mr. Steve Hughes, president & CEO of Aspect, provides an update on recent market and product developments at Aspect and the growing market acceptance of cloud-based CTRM solutions....
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