Tag: Commodities

Commodity Markets – A Headhunter’s View

ComTechAdvisory: Given all of the turmoil in commodity markets this last year or so, how has the job market been impacted? James Richmond: The markets have been slow in the past year in the prime locations (London and Geneva in particular). There has been a lot of divestment in...
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Risk Monitoring & Management Trends in Commodities

Commodity producers, traders, and industrial consumers are all facing a barrage of risks such as price exposure and cyber vulnerability, as well as legal, credit, operational and market risks. The risks associated with buying, selling, and moving commodities only seem to be increasing exponentially with greater regulatory oversight...
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CTRM Conference Shaping Up

The CTRMConference is a unique 1-day event that is focused on the $1.6billion CTRM software category to be held on the 5th October at the RAI Amtrium, Amsterdam in conjunction with Synergy’s EMART. The conference brings together end user, service practitioners, and vendors to spend a day focused...
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The 2017 CTRM Conference

The 2017 CTRM Conference will be held on the 5th October at the RAI Atrium, Amsterdam in conjunction with Synergy’s EMART event. The conference brings together end user, service practitioners, and vendors to spend a day focused on some of the key issues and trends impacting the software...
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Kynetix explains Distributed Ledger Technologies and its future

ComTechAdvisory: What is Kynetix interest in Blockchain technologies? Scott Riley: There are three primary drivers to Kynetix’s interest in DLT...
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ETRM in a Low Commodity Price Environment

The collapse in wholesale energy prices, which began in earnest mid-year 2014, has resulted in a prolonged period of declining profits, declining trading volumes, bankruptcies in the up-stream markets, and a general malaise in the global wholesale energy markets. Though low prices are a benefit for consumers, this...
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Analytics to Address the Increasingly Complex Global Agricultural Market

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CTRM for Sugar – Managing Sugar’s Complexity

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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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Commodity Prices Dive But CTRM Software Sales Steady

Every day I select a bunch of news articles for posting on here on CTRMCenter and in recent days the theme of these has become increasingly obvious – Commodity prices are crashing hammered by a variety of factors ranging from over supply, weakened Asian demand, stronger US Dollar,...
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