Over the last decade or so, regulatory risk has been a growing concern for those trading various types of commodities as a multitude of new regulations came into force – many with substantial teeth in the form of heavy penalties. One area of regulatory risk software that has...
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In January, as part of the Biden Administration’s climate agenda, the Department of Energy paused the approvals of pending and future LNG export projects in the US, citing the need for further reviews of the economic, energy security and environmental impacts of US LNG exports. On June 27th,...
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Over the last quarter century or so, as I have been directly involved in CTRM and related software, outside investment and M&A has been a consistent and ongoing theme. I have even experienced an investment myself when at TransEnergy and I saw the very basic mistakes made there...
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As part of its energy transition technologies practice, ComTech is undertaking an important research project into the VPP. A part of this research is a survey that we would like to invite you to take below. Your views and insights are key to understanding how the energy transition...
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When it comes to the various risks that a commodities-focused company must deal with, credit risk is likely an area that staff from several departments are involved with in one way or another. It’s not just credit specialists but treasury, traders, finance and many other areas of the...
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If you are a frequent visitor to CTRMCenter then you will know that we like to post a daily article of our own in the blog section and a news story in the new section. A decade or so ago, getting a news story was pretty easy –...
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VAKT sees AI within its platform as a potentially powerful tool that can help to further streamline business processes and workflows, particularly in handling barge nomination documents, inspection documents, certificates of quantity and quality, and bills of lading in vLogistics. Additionally, AI may enhance data handling and user...
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2023/4 saw North American Utilities identified by several credit rating agencies as riskier with both Morningstar and Fitch citing credit metrics weakening on both rising CAPEX and regulatory lag. “Credit metrics for the North American utilities sector are weakening, in part because of regulatory lag, major capital needs...
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If you use or work with CTRM software then you will have your opinions on who and what is best in various areas like risk management, power, metals and so ? This is your opportunity to express those opinions and in fact – we would love to have...
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I recently had an opportunity to speak with Sameer Soleja, the Founder and CEO of Molecule, to get an update on Molecule’s key initiatives and his outlook on the commodities market. Sameer is particularly proud of Molecule’s modern technology stack and cloud-native, multi-tenant SaaS architecture that allows for...
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