EKA Software Solutions, with the recent announcement of their investment in Australia-based Matrix Group, has now built a base of products, personnel and revenues that has separated the company from the mid-tier physical-capable CTRM vendor pack and moved them into a select group of vendors – those with...
Continue Reading »
The Securities and Exchange Commission voted today to allow hedge funds and other private investment firms to start publicly advertising for investor dollars, something that has been strictly off-limits since the 1930’s. With this change, firms will no longer have to limit their fund raising to direct contacts...
Continue Reading »
While doing a bit of research for an upcoming ComTechAlert article, I was reviewing oil production stats for the US and was a bit surprised by the numbers. Much of the attention paid to the increasing crude production in the US is focused on the Bakken field in...
Continue Reading »
Its being widely reported, both in the press and through the grapevine, that the buyer for Triple Point is ION Trading. ION is a Dublin-based software vendor whose products have been primarily focused on the financial services space. They have been an active buyer of solutions in the...
Continue Reading »
ETR Advisory and ComTech Advisory are now busy researching and preparing the initial report for our European Regulatory study. The study looks at EMIR and REMIT primarily, examining the regulations in terms of what has been defined and what has yet to be defined by the regulators and...
Continue Reading »
As many know, there was a recent article in the press that said Triple Point’s owners, Welsh Carson, had put the company on the block, seeking to leverage the solid success the company has had over the last few years (20-30% year over year growth) into a very...
Continue Reading »
Bloomberg’s terminal business has been caught up in a bit of a scandal this week (it does seem to be a week for doing that type of thing). Numerous stories indicate the company has been passing around terminal user information to the company’s sales staff and news reporters;...
Continue Reading »
So today is my first official day back as an analyst (yesterday was a holiday in the Czech republic). It is nice to be back too. It is good to be working with Patrick again and to be reconnecting to a lot of people that I have known...
Continue Reading »
Aspect Enterprise Solutions, having established themselves in the last couple of years as the leader in SaaS delivered CTRM solutions for oil trading, announced last week that they have signed their first customer in the Ags/Softs space. According to their press release, the company signed-up Switzerland-based Soyuz Commodities...
Continue Reading »
Eka announced this morning that they had purchased Calgary-based EnCompass Technologies. According to the press release, “All employees of EnCompass have joined Eka, and the two co-founders, CEO Andy Bout and COO Stewart Brightman, will take key leadership roles in the combined organization. Andy and Stewart will be...
Continue Reading »