FIS Energy & Commodities has been working on several partnering relationships recently, both in functional areas like North American crude oil with Egistix, and in US natural gas scheduling with Enercross’ NatGasHub product, and on the implementation side with its XDM software with an implementation partner. These relationships...
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Fendhal’s Henry Thornalley says that while it is still a very busy market for CTRM software, most inquiries at Fendahl are now originating from within Europe. He expects to close a couple of these opportunities in Europe including in the oil space in the coming weeks. The European...
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A few years ago, in one of my routine searches for new CTRM solutions, I came across a solution called Graintrack, a cloud-based solution targeting grains from a company in the Ukraine. It’s website at that time was partly in English and partly in Ukrainian but I did...
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From all of us at CTRMCenter.com and Commodity Technology Advisory LLC, Happy Holidays! Continue reading Happy Holidays and Here is to a Safe and Prosperous 2023. This article appeared first on CTRM Center....
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2022 turned out to be quite the year for commodities. Volatilities and prices surged in many commodities and trading firms made good profits by and large as the hedge funds moved back in. For other firms, it was not so great with those supplying energy to retailers often...
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With a big sigh of relief on my part and after literally hours and hours of spreadsheet analysis and graph making, the 2022 VPS report is drafted and gone to the designer for lay out. The report should be released in early January 2023 and will be a...
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Energy One Europe is continuing with its restructuring projects around Contigo, EGSSIS and eZ-nergy Simon Wheeler, CEO, told me recently. It is consolidating support into one area and recruiting at the same time for positions like business analysts, sales staff and more. So far this year, it has...
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Imagine being a salesperson for a CTRM vendor right now. The holidays are coming and so is year end (calendar and for many – financial). There are two things about this time of year that I have learned in many discussions with sales and other staff. The first...
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Brady Technology’s Ian Tobin sees an active market for credit solutions with a lot of interest in Brady’s CRisk solution. Market volatility is driving a great deal of scrutiny in the credit area along with a need for more real-time reporting on various types of exposure, he told...
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According to a Bloomberg story, hedge funds in commodities are back and making money. My interest in hedge funds commenced back around 19-years ago when Peter Fusaro and I started investigating commodity funds. We ended up writing the book Energy & Environmental Hedge Funds – The New Investment...
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