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Gen10 Delivers First trade finance repo deal done on blockchain in the metals industry

Over the last couple of years, Gen10 has more or less completely reinvented itself. This was confirmed in the last call that I had with CEO Richard Williamson. Founded in 2000, Gen10 has delivered many projects across the commodities space. These days,......
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MTX Looks to Europe and beyond for Growth

MTX Commodities was established in 2013 in Turkey but recently (2018) it has opened an office in London as it tries to build on the success that it has had to date. It got started by Ms. Melis Aksari who saw the need to build an ETRM in...
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Is E/CTRM Software Procurement on the Rise?

The number of announcements from vendors regarding new sales of E/CTRM software have been few and far between through 2019 to date. In part, this reflects a stronger reluctance on the part of buyers to publicly ‘endorse’ vendors whose softw......
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Spreadsheets Revisted

At the ETEM conference last week, quite a lot of panel time was dedicated to a discussion of spreadsheets versus ETRM. To me, this is a long dead topic that has been done to death but…. new people and new entities come into the industry all of th......
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ETRM Front and Center at ETOT

Patrick and I attended ETOT in the Docklands area of London last week. The conference was well attended with a record number of delegates for a packed agenda. Quite a few ETRM vendors were also there with a presence including Eka, Gen10, Contigo, Molec......
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ETOT Attendees Focused on Data And Digitalization?

ETOT, which takes place in London this week – more details at the ETOT website – attendees have been asked to complete a survey in advance of the Summit that offers a glimpse of what attendees have on their minds. I discussed the survey res......
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Gen10 Seeks Plateau of Productivity Amidst Blockchain Disillusionment

Over the last couple of years, Gen10 appears to us to have more or less completely reinvented itself. This feeling was confirmed in the last call that I had with CEO Richard Williamson this last week. Founded in 2000, Gen10 has delivered many projects ......
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Three Reasons Buyers are Spoiled for CTRM Choice

Buyers of CTRM software have more choice than ever in todays vibrant market despite the M&A activity. Here are three reasons why. The cloud and SaaS is finally with us in CTRM. ComTech and its predecessor undertook research into CTRM in the Cloud a......
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About Those Awards

With yet another round of recent awards being announced awarded to the usual and largest vendors, I was reminded that just as summer started, we chose to try to conduct a snapshot survey on the value of such awards. Now, I have been a Marketing VP of a......
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Six Reasons to Think There Will be More CTRM Replacements in the Future

As I have stated before, replacing a CTRM has never been an easy thing. That is why, the CTRM replacement market has been smaller historically than perhaps many might expect. But things have really changed in the last couple of years and replacement is......
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