Vendor News

Brady Issues Market Update

After seeing their stock get hit pretty hard after a revision to their full year 2015 guidance in late November/early December, Brady appears to have rebounded rather nicely according to an updated “Trading Statement” they issued this morning.  Gavin Lavelle, Brady’s CEO, notes that within the last month,...
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Consolidating Risk

A consolidated view of risk position across a global, multi-commodity trading business is something like the Holy Grail for many that rely on a patchwork quilt of different CTRM systems – commercial and internal, and even spreadsheets, in some parts of the business. As trading companies, merchants and...
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Calling All E/CTRM Consulting Firms

ComTech is currently updating the Consultants List. This free download from CTRMCenter’s research area is essentially a list of consulting firms and system’s integrators that specialize or have a practice area in the E/CTRM space. It has been downloaded and viewed more than 500 times since its last...
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Calling All E/CTRM Consulting Firms

ComTech is currently updating the Consultants List. This free download from CTRMCenter’s research area is essentially a list of consulting firms and system’s integrators that specialize or have a practice area in the E/CTRM space. It has been downloaded and viewed more than 500 times since its last...
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Brady Acquires Energy Credit

I spoke this afternoon to a very upbeat Gavin Lavelle, CEO at Brady PLC, on the back of today’s announcement that it had acquired energy credit from Temenos. Apparently, Brady experienced a flurry of successful E/CTRM software deal closings in the late fourth quarter of 2015 in addition...
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Aspect continues to build market momentum

We visited this week with Aspect to get an update on some of their recent activities and developments as the company (which started as OILSpace) marks its 15th year in delivering cloud-based solutions to the energy and commodity trading markets.  Brigette Gebhard, the company’s VP of sales and...
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SunGard Adaptiv Eyes Regulatory Changes in Energy and Commodities

Last week, I took a briefing from SunGard regarding its Adaptiv software product line. The software was originally designed for the capital markets that are already highly regulated and already fall under regulations such as MiFiD. With an eye of MiFiD2 and CRD IV impacting energy and commodity...
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Allegro rolls out new look and new strategy at their annual customer summit

I was in Miami at the Allegro Customer Summit this week, presenting on the topic of “The Value of Your Investment in CTRM/CM” to the assembled group and visiting one-on-one with some of the more than 300 customers, partners and Allegro personnel that were in attendance. Allegro used...
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TRADESPARENT Make Significant Enhancements For Next Release

Last week, TRADESPARENT Risk Management Solutions were kind enough to give me a look at some new functionality due in the next release in the coming few days. The TRADESPARENT solution is aimed squarely at the Ags and Softs commodity space where users have multiple trading systems and...
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G10 Set to Double Up On Staff

I spoke to Richard Williamson a couple of weeks ago to find out how things were going at G10. He told us that the company had ‘won a few deals’ and was looking at a very healthy pipeline. So much so, that they are seeking to double their...
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