ComTech’s latest report on market views and perceptions of CTRM technology vendors and solutions has just released and is available for download or online reading. This 2016 CTRM Vendor Perceptions Report reviews and analyzes the results of an on-line poll of non-vendor market participants conducted by ComTech over...
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ComTech will close the survey part of the vendor perception study at the end of April meaning that there isn’t much time left for you to give your opinions in this important survey. We repeat the survey every two years and issue a report that is free to...
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Towards the back end of the summer of 2015, ComTech began to note what looked like an increase in popularity of at least considering building CTRM software in house. Frankly, this trend puzzled us somewhat as why would anyone want to build deal capture again, for example? Despite...
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Towards the back end of the summer of 2015, ComTech began to note what looked like an increase in popularity of at least considering building CTRM software in house. Frankly, this trend puzzled us somewhat as why would anyone want to build deal capture again, for example? Despite...
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The market for CTRM software is not homogenous and consists of a number of overlapping markets identified by commodity group, geography and industry niche. For example, a generator in Florida will likely have a different set of needs than a rubber producer in Asia. In the past, we...
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The US and EUR gas and power markets are bad enough that traders are going to make bonuses of less than $500,000 for 2015! Yeah, I know, its hard to get worked up about the average trader “only” making a $450k bonus, but in a market where that...
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The US and EUR gas and power markets are bad enough that traders are going to make bonuses of less than $500,000 for 2015! Yeah, I know, its hard to get worked up about the average trader “only” making a $450k bonus, but in a market where that...
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The US and EUR gas and power markets are bad enough that traders are going to make bonuses of less than $500,000 for 2015! Yeah, I know, its hard to get worked up about the average trader “only” making a $450k bonus, but in a market where that...
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As you’ve heard, and as we’ve talked here many times, the commodities markets are…ah…”difficult” right now. With the Bloomberg Commodities Index scraping new record lows on a daily basis, commodity producers – from ags to metals to oil & gas – are certainly suffering. Traders too, having been...
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A few years ago, as commodity prices reached new records and heady heights on a daily basis, all the talk was of market speculation. I recall sitting on an Energy Risk panel in Houston and being asked about speculation and prices. My view at the time was that...
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