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Paragon and the Energy Credit Risk Marketplace

I sat down with Paragon Consulting’s president, Kevin Gerold, and  SVP of sales and services, Jason Wells, last week to get their take on the current state of the market for credit risk systems in light of the recent commodities roller-coaster. Though their company name might imply something...
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Turning The Corner?

Jim Rogers was quoted yesterday saying.. “As far as commodities are concerned, it’s about supply and demand, and you’re having huge cutbacks in supply. We’re already having supply problems in some agricultural products and we’re going to have problems with oil products. “So I don’t think that the...
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With FIS’s acquisition of SunGard, what happens to SunGard Energy?

Last week’s announcement that Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) has agreed to purchase SunGard does raise some questions as to the implications for the SunGard Energy business (as indicated by the number of emails in my in-box about it and number of phone calls on the topic that...
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Can I Quote You On That?

At the moment, we are running a bit of a feedback survey on CTRMCenter (- yes, its that annoying pop up we are using). The results to date are actually very encouraging and we will probably publish them in a few weeks time when we have more respondents....
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Can I Quote You On That?

At the moment, we are running a bit of a feedback survey on CTRMCenter (- yes, its that annoying pop up we are using). The results to date are actually very encouraging and we will probably publish them in a few weeks time when we have more respondents....
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European Ags and Softs Demand Robust – Agiboo

Agiboo continues to increase the specific functionality in its Agiblocks software to support soft commodities, Mr. Jan Van Den Brom told us recently. The vendor has been very busy implementing it’s new sugar flagship client – and has managed to get them up and running in just two...
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European Ags and Softs Demand Robust – Agiboo

Agiboo continues to increase the specific functionality in its Agiblocks software to support soft commodities, Mr. Jan Van Den Brom told us recently. The vendor has been very busy implementing it’s new sugar flagship client – and has managed to get them up and running in just two...
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European Ags and Softs Demand Robust – Agiboo

Agiboo continues to increase the specific functionality in its Agiblocks software to support soft commodities, Mr. Jan Van Den Brom told us recently. The vendor has been very busy implementing it’s new sugar flagship client – and has managed to get them up and running in just two...
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Eka and the Agricultural Markets Outlook

I had the opportunity to visit with Manav Garg, Eka’s founder and CEO last week to get an update on the company and the markets they serve. Our conversation happened to coincide with the “mini-crash” that occurred across the commodities market over the last couple of weeks, so...
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Eka and the Agricultural Markets Outlook

I had the opportunity to visit with Manav Garg, Eka’s founder and CEO last week to get an update on the company and the markets they serve. Our conversation happened to coincide with the “mini-crash” that occurred across the commodities market over the last couple of weeks, so...
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