I saw a press announcement on Monday in which GlobalData provided an estimate of a $51billion market for VR by 2030. Rupantar Guha, Associate Project Manager for the Thematic Team at GlobalData, commented in the announcement: “VR has been around for over six decades, in one form or...
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In a recent blog post titled Risk Management Software Should be Booming, I made the case for the emergence of two software classes in commodities – Commodities Advanced Risk Analytics and the Commodities Risk Platform. I also suggested that the overall status of the RM part of the...
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Periodically, we talk about procurement at ComTech. For example, we had a CTRMRadio podcast episode on it back a couple of years ago and we have written about it frequently on this blog. We continue to envisage a change on how CTRM and other software procurement is done...
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Enuit’s Chief Product Officer, David Rao, is focused on several initiatives including work on delivering Entrade v7 and Entrade Unite. In terms of Entrade v7, the next major release of Entrade, it is based on the very latest technology, he told me. “We are engaged in microservices development...
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CTRM Cubed founder and CEO, Simon Piercy sees some potential issues emerging for smaller vendors in energy markets like the UK as on the retail side, there have been many failures in recent weeks and months. Thirteen British energy retailers have gone bankrupt as of last week according...
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In August, Brady Technologies announced the appointment of its new CEO, Mr. Bernard Delahaye. Mr. Delahaye has an extensive background in trading software and commodities having held senior executive roles in companies including ION, OpenLink, FIS, Temenos and Verifone. As the announcement said, “leading “from the front”, Bernard...
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We have been watching as vendors across the commodities space reported good sales pipelines and activity in CTRM and related software markets. Amongst those vendors doing well under such conditions is the FIS energy team, who are quietly having a great year according to Todd Wolk, FIS’ Head...
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We recently visited with George Olney, President of iRely, the US based provider of CM/CTRM solutions specializing in coverage across multiple categories. According to Mr. Olney, the company is seeing a surge in interest in its CTRM and CM solution in Ags and Softs in Europe this year....
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We recently caught up with Robert Balinski, VP of Services for Enuit, the Houston based vendor of ETRM/CTRM/CM solutions for the global commodities markets. Enuit has been one of the more successful vendors in the space over the last couple of years, showing particular strength in the Asian...
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For quite a while, we have been suggesting that advanced risk analytics and enterprise risk management platforms should be benefiting from industry trends. It is a truism that many CTRM and CM solutions are not very strong in the area of risk management – some are but most...
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