A few weeks ago, Amphora announced a deal in China with China Zhenhua Oil, one of the largest crude oil importers in China. According to Ivan O’Toole, Head of Sales & Marketing for Amphora, Amphora has followed this up with a couple of more wins in metals and...
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ComTech often gets ask to participate in various webinars in the industry including by various vendors. We are usually delighted to participate by using our analysis and research to help set the scene. Next week on September 9th, I will be doing exactly that in a Gen10 organized...
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For Hugo Stappers at Pioneer, while much seems to be changing in the CTRM world, some things have not. Though he sees strong levels of demand and a solid flow of RRI’s and RFPs – both from Europe and the US, small and large companies – the sales...
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I am still busy doing the analysis and writing up the Vendor Perception Report. We hope to issue it late next month and it will be a beast of a report. We had a record response and so we have been able to dissect it in ways we...
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It is an unusual summer and it is 2020… so perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised at the continuing swathe of new deal announcements? While I was away, Amphora made a big announcement regarding the signing of China Zhenhua Oil, one of the largest crude oil importers in China....
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Last week we spoke with Wendi Orlando, VP or Product Management, Enverus Trading & Risk. With over 900 customers, Enverus continues to see good activity and continues to grow their client base, she told us. In common with other vendors we have talked to in recent months, it...
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It is easy to focus on the myriad of issues for commodities presented by COVID-19, lockdowns, supply issues and demand changes and forget that geopolitical issues remain a huge factor exposing commodity firms to risk. While the former is in the news daily, it has also tended to...
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It is about the time that I usually write the purposeful Europe is on vacation post for my US colleagues. Having lived both sides of the pond, I much prefer the European habit of taking almost all of August off and hitting the beach en masse somewhere on...
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One common theme we have heard almost universally in talking with CTRM vendors since March has been that surprisingly, the lockdown seems to have created more activity. Indeed, several deals have been done and signed over the period and some implemented very rapidly and remotely. We have argued...
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Recently Brady announced a major new customer in the form of BASF Catalysts which selected Brady’s Trinity™ solution for metals financial trading and risk management. The solution will be deployed by BASF Catalysts in Japan, China, UK and North America, according to the press announcement. According to Debbi...
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