Quorum announced late last week that they had purchased Calgary-based Entero. As both companies have had considerable success in their respective markets – Quorum in the US E&P and midstream oil and gas space and Entero in the same segments ......
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Allegro announced this morning that they had acquired energy and commodity risk and analytics firm Financial Engineering Associates (FEA) from MSCI, who had previously bought FEA as part of their acquisition of Barra in 2004. Founded in 1990, FEA has ......
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Now that the acquisition of Openlink by ION has closed, I visited with Openlink’s EVP & CMO Nancy Pearson, and Ken Knowles, EVP of strategy & business development, this morning to get an update. With the the deal having only recently closed ab......
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Blockchain is the hottest thing since Y2K. Everyone is talking about it, many companies are investing in it and lots of tech companies have built-out huge practices dedicated to creating practical applications for it (Deloitte said this week they have......
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I know this topic isn’t ETRM, CTRM or CM, but it is about internet security, identity theft, possible international money laundering and a corporation’s responsibility to address issues caused when they enable any of the above…so, bear with me…it is ki......
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I had the opportunity to visit with Steve Hughes, president of Aspect Enterprise, this week to get an update on their business now that the ION acquisition has closed. Though he indicated that they are in the process of merging their administrative fu......
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This afternoon, Openlink issued a press release announcing that they are being acquired by ION Investment Group. Though the announcement wasn’t necessarily unexpected (see our earlier blog post here), there clearly will be a lot of questions in ......
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Its a busy time for CTRM mergers, acquisitions and divestitures…. In just the last couple of months, we’ve had 1) ION buying Aspect and a strong rumor that they are close to acquiring another large CTRM vendor, 2) Brady divesting their recycling ......
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Rumors have been flying for the last couple of weeks that Dublin-based ION Investments Group is about to acquire one of the largest CTRM vendors. Though a name is attached the rumor, we’re going to forego mentioning it at this time as it’s not cl......
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Just a reminder, we’re currently working on a research effort looking at the impacts of disruptive new technologies in the CTRM space. If you are a ETRM/CTRM user, provider or consultant, we would sincerely appreciate you sharing your thoughts v......
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