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Value Creed Expands its Global Focus into Advisory, Consulting & Support

Value Creed is a global consulting and services firm squarely focused on CTRM and energy. Established in 2016, it now has more than 200 staff operating out of around eleven global offices and is headquartered in Dallas, TX. Founded by professionals with experience in building or contributing to...
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DycoTrade Holds Customer Connect 2025 Next Week

Next week, DycoTrade will hold its DycoTrade Customer Connect 2025 sessions in Amsterdam and I will be attending and speaking on trends in CTRM Software – Responding to Uncertainty. I am looking forward to it as it has been quite a few years since I last attended one...
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ION Openlink Endur – An Update post version s25

I recently spoke with Phil Wang and David Gross who head up product management at ION for its Openlink product, about its Openlink product – Endur. ION’s Openlink Endur has a very large installed base globally and has been around for many years. It released version S25 in...
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CubeLogic Sees Five Trends in Credit Risk

Natallia Hunik, Chief Revenue Officer with CubeLogic, spent some time this week telling me what she hears from the frontline in terms of what clients are looking for these days in the credit area. She classifies these as five important trends in credit risk given the volatility and...
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Enuit Focused on Delivering an Agile Platform

Mu Fang, Enuit’s Global Pre-Sales and Services Director, was keen to tell me why he thinks Enuit is well positioned to help its clients through today’s unpredictable and volatile commodity markets. Pointing to things like Trump’s tariffs, the future for Russian gas, Europe’s energy uncertainty and much more,...
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capSpire’s Trust and Expertise Reputation Differentiates It Says Global CEO

capSpire was founded in 2006 by two independent consultants who saw the E/CTRM space as unique and very specialized. They believed that it required specific expertise as opposed to a more traditional consulting approach and started capSpire. It now has over 300 specialists operating out of multiple locations...
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Advanced Risk Management for Physical Commodities: The Topaz Approach

In risk management, valuations of physical commodity trades and assets are often challenging due to modeling complexity. This complexity arises naturally from the physical characteristics of the commodity, for example, gas storage characteristics or quality parameters in oil or coal, or from delivery and logistics-related complexities. Physical long-term...
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VAKT Expanding its Focus

VAKT has been working hard during Q1 on a series of inititiatives, Dale Becker told me this week. Many of these are aimed at extending the use of the platform while showing its value. By connecting to VAKT, user systems are automatically updated with the most up to...
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Principia Consulting Growing by Focusing on its Core CTRM Services Area

Principia Consulting CEO & President, Doug Gyani, sees high volatilities persisting in commodities due to geopolitical instability. “It’s great for traders,” he said. “It also means that traders need to employ stricter risk controls, strategies and policies.” He pointed to the crash in copper prices recently as one...
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Enuits Reacts to Asian Market Needs

Asian markets are where Enuit appears to do very well according to our biannual surveys of market perceptions, so I was rather keen to catch up with Winson Low to hear about that market specifically. As it turned out, Winson says Asian markets are a little sluggish at...
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