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FIS Sees Secure Cloud Delivery of CTRM and Risk analytics Offering Benefits

Like other vendors, FIS has been busy during this lockdown period, Ms. Irina Reitgruber, of FIS Energy & Commodities, told me last week during a catch up call. “We have seen many people looking for solutions and have been busy doing demos and following up with sales pipeline...
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CTRMRadio Participation

We run a reasonably popular podcast called CTRMRadio. We cover topics related to CTRM and commodities 6 times per year. We are planning a number of episodes for the remainder of this year and we are looking for guests who can speak to these topics – if you...
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Automated Trading Strategies and FORRS Automated Trading Maturity Model

Recently, a German consulting firm contacted us to inform us about its Maturity Model for algorithmic trading. Founded in 2015, FORRS is a consulting firm focused on the financial, energy and commodities space. With offices in Heidelberg and Munich, it provides a range of services like management consulting,...
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Brady Focused on Customers and Business Continuity

In my ongoing roundup of discussions with vendors and other industry players, I spoke last week with Debbi Bavin, head of Marketing at Brady, to get a catch up. As usual, I was very interested in activity levels given the whole situation with COVID-19 and the lockdown. From...
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Igloo Notes Strong Interest in its Solution

Hot on the back of a recently announced deal with Bonroy Petchem, I spoke to Dale Emmerson of Igloo to find out more about that particular transaction and see how Igloo was doing in the current business environment. “We signed Bonroy at the very start of the current...
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Power Costs Inc. – A growing presence in ETRM

Power Costs Inc. (PCI) is an Oklahoma-based vendor of solutions for power markets, from generation to scheduling to transmission & distribution.  Though the company has been in business more than 28 years, they have historically been a fairly quiet organization.  Founded by engineers/professors at the University of Oklahoma,...
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Doing Business During the Lockdown – Agiboo

Much to my amazement, Jan van den Brom of Agiboo told me he had actually driven cross border to a customer meeting last month traveling from Agiboo’s Netherland’s base to a customer site in Germany by car. It has been possible for legitimate business reasons in some parts...
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CTWOnline Panel Focuses on Business Continuity and CTRMs

Next week, Commodities People will innovate with a virtual trade show and conference called CTWOnline. It’s free to attend for anyone interested in doing so and has a strongly business continuity-focused agenda as might be expected under current circumstances. The full details of agenda, speakers, networking and so...
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2020 Vendor Perception Survey

We have had a pretty good response to the survey so far however, we could use more and especially from North America. So, if you use, have used, implement or help select E/CTRM software and you do NOT work for one of the vendors currently, we would love...
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Fendahl’s CTRM/CM solution, Fusion, Ready to Compete

Being an analyst in the Commodity technologies space, you get to see a lot of software demonstrations and there are very few CTRM/CM solutions remaining that I haven’t had a look at. However, until last week, one of those that remained broadly unseen by me was Fusion from...
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