Today’s blog is sort of off topic and yet – it is on topic too. As I scanned the news on Reuters and other outlets for interesting news to post here, I got sucked into the Trump visit to the UK. In particular, I was struck by the...
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Dunstan Thomas is a UK-based firm that provides business services and technology solutions in financial services and wholesale energy markets, and also technology consulting and software development services across other markets. Until relatively recen......
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A couple of weeks back, I talked with Colin Haywood, CEO of Chinsay. Chinsay is a specialist in contract data and has a singular focus on “contracts and removing paper from people’s desks,” he told me. It has just announced its cloud-native Intelligent......
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With a marketing background, I tend to look at things in those terms at times – brand, position, presence and so on. So last week at ComRisk, I paid a lot of attention to who was sponsoring, exhibiting and attending. Then it hit me. The two large......
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I’m just back from London where I attended ComRisk2019 and moderated a lively session on CTRM. The conference enjoyed a bumper turn out – apparently attendance was 50% up over last year. The agenda was as excellent as the turn out and I bot......
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In the last couple of weeks, we’ve had numerous people ask us what we thought ION’s strategy might be? Are they out to corner the market for trading solutions servicing energy and commodity companies? And now, with the acquisition of Allegro, had they ......
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I posted a blog article last week that was a bit tongue in cheek and, in part, poked a bit of fun at industry awards. Then to my utter amazement, when I pulled up to my desk this morning, I opened an email that essentially confirmed everything said...
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I’m looking forward to next Tuesday afternoon when I will be moderating what I expect to be an absolutely cracking panel discussion at ComRisk (5pm Tuesday). I will be joined by Peter Mitsche , Senior Trading Process Manager, OMV, Scott Wellcome,......
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Sometimes things bother me a lot and I just have to fathom them out. Here are three conundrums that bother me at the moment in terms of the CTRM Software Industry. It’s firmly tongue – in-cheek so please don’t take me too literally......
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A long-standing issue associated with CTRM software has been the need to integrate it with an ERP solution. Increasingly, ERP functionality has encroached upon the CTRM space (and vice versa) so that commodity firms sometimes find that they are using a......
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