Quantifi Adding Energy & Commodity Customers

Quantifi has a 22-year history providing risk, analytics, and trading solutions to capital markets. Around 12-years ago, it extended that offering into commodity markets and has since experienced strong growth in that space – both in softs and metals, for its counterparty credit and market risk solutions. Its latest customer is a leading market maker in energy, that trades derivatives in oil, gas, power, emissions and metals, Avadhut Naik, Head of Solutions, told me. “With the client’s business growing and its operations expanding, it wanted to incorporate more sophisticated methods for pricing counterparty risk (CVA) on commodity derivatives they make markets in and selected the solution as typical E/CTRMs do not provide the functionality required around CVAs.” Another area where Quantifi is seeing traction in commodities is in supplementing CTRMs with ‘first-class risk management’, he told me.  “Quantifi has no plans to get into the trading side as our sole focus is on risk management,” Avadhut said. “Our Counterparty credit and market risk solution is a first-class risk solution that companies can use to augment or supplement their CTRM(s), especially if they want to consolidate or aggregate risk into one solution across the business.” He pointed to the lack of… continue reading