The grains market is very dynamic, according to Quor Eka’s Francisco Navarro, who sees some global trends impacting the market. While the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war can still have considerable impact on the grains market and there are still some ongoing uncertainties, demand from China and countries like Afghanistan,...
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Topaz is having a busy time, according to Jon Fox, CEO. “It’s been a very interesting few months with some new customers coming on board and several others on the verge of coming aboard as well,” he told me recently. It had just gone live with a broker-dealer...
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One area that is changing massively in commodities and generally is access to data. The amount and types of data accessible are expanding at prolific rates and managing that data is increasing in importance as we discovered in a recent episode of CTRMRadio. This week, I spoke with...
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The VAKT initiative was started in 2018 by a group of oil majors, traders, and trade finance providers who desired to try to solve a problem through collective action. The idea was that physical post-trade processes were too reliant on manual, complex, repetitive and therefore error-prone processes, and...
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Energy One had been actively making acquisitions – particularly in Europe, for a period of time and has since been focused on leveraging those acquisitions and building up a strategy and organization to support it that involved both software, services and, in particular – operational outsourcing. Recently, Energy...
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At the end of June, we will stop surveying for the vendor perception study and so this is your last chance to have your say. Who is the CTRM market leader? Who is the market leader for Metals, Ags & Softs, Energy? And a few more questions on...
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Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) are structures that can help to provide innovative financing and help speed up the development of renewable energy and other projects. In increasing use, they are now commonly a part of any energy trading portfolios. The PPA helps guarantee a revenue stream over a...
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Enuit has always been a vendor that sought out new markets and does have established presence in North America, Europe, Singapore, Mainland China, Japan and is now setting its intention and focus on India. It’s presence in these markets and its regional coverage has allowed for Enuit to...
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Commodity Management is essentially CTRM plus ERP functionalities to support the physical supply chain involved in moving and managing the commodity and we defined these terms a few years ago in our groundbreaking white paper – CTRM as an Architecture (available as a free download here). CTRM, on...
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I’m certainly not an economist but I can see through the political narrative trying to get interest rates down ahead of a US election. As I have argued here several months ago, I don’t see interest rates coming down anytime soon and I’m not alone. according to an...
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