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Increasingly Event Driven Need for Risk Managers…

Ian Sloggett, Sales Director at CubeLogic in the UK, says that it had a hugely successful year in 2023 signing and implementing some huge customers including two major oil companies on the credit risk side while many algo traders in the Nordics also signed up for the trade...
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Multi Tenanted SaaS CTRM in the Cloud – CTRM Cubed

It’s been a while since we visited with CTRM Cubed and so it was good to talk with Simon Piercy this week and get a short catch up. CTRM Cubed markets its solution – TradeCube – as an instant, connected, self-service and cloud native CTRM. It is, as...
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The BRICS System Means Less Price Discovery and Market Intelligence

A short while ago, I used this blog to alert people to the BRICS clearing system and how that system would eventually have an impact on the USD. I talked about how the clearing system would use a CBDC to replace the USD and thus undermine it. I...
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CTRM Vendor Funding Part 3 – Steve Hughes of Quor Eka Shares His Views on Private and PE firm Ownership.

Steve Hughes, now CEO at Quor Eka, is a something of a veteran when it comes to M&A with 25 M&A projects under his belt. For example, he ran Aspect, building that business and successfully selling it to ION. So, he knows a thing or two about financing...
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VAKT CEO Provides Update and Compelling Reasons for adoption

It’s been 6-months since Tasja Botha was appointed CEO over at VAKT, and in that time, much has happened. So, I talked with Tasja last week to catch up and to hear the latest news. Tasja is pleased with progress saying that she doubled down on adoption of...
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Enuit Targets Environmental Commodities

Enuit is busy readying Entrade 7 and, as we wrote in a previous article, it is investing its future in a new technology platform while preserving the depth of functionality it has in the solution. This last week, I spoke with Seenu Kaliamurthy, Enuit’s Managing Director of Power...
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Phlo System’s opsPhlo – Commodity Management in the Cloud

Talha Khan is Phlo System’s CTO and recently I had an opportunity to talk with him about some of the technology initiatives going on over at Phlo Systems and gain an understanding of the technology and platform strategy there. However, first a little background… Commodity trading and risk...
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Grain Track Expands Offering affordable, SaaS CTRM for Grains

Grain Track offers a CTRM solution targeting grains known as Commotrack – a SaaS, cloud-based solution that is now used by more than 57 customers in the Ukraine, Moldova, Khazakstan, Poland, Canada, Morroco and Switzerland. Grain Track has around 30 staff and is headquartered these days in Estonia...
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iRely in Top Four CTRM/CM Vendors on Back of Growth – Sees Metals as Next Target

ComTech’s forthcoming market sizing update will show quite a bump in vendor revenues from ags & softs. We have been anticipating this for a few years and we do expect demand in that commodity group to continue to grow steadily. One of the beneficiaries of this demand appears...
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2024 Vendor Perceptions – Early Impressions

I am now doing the analysis on the responses to the 2024 VPS and as usual, I’m surprised. The report probably won’t be out for a while as it is really quite tedious work doing the analysis as we look at it so many different ways. However, being...
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