Tag: Europe

Interesting Two Days At ETSCEE

I am back from my trip to Prague and the ETSCEE conference. It was an interesting agenda and a good place to meet people. I found the opening presentation by Florian Ermacora of the European Commission most interesting on two levels. Firstly, in terms of what the EU...
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Catching Up with Pioneer Solutions

I recently caught up with Hugo Stappers of Pioneer Solutions to discuss general market conditions and Pioneer’s recent activities. Hugo sees a stronger market coming into 2017 after a mid year slow down in 2016 as utilities and other entities in Europe focused on reorganisations, restructuring, and so...
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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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Are Spreadsheets Ever The Right Solution?

I had a briefing this morning from Contigo and one of the topics that came up in the discussion was the use of spreadsheets. It’s a truism that almost all trading firms utilize spreadsheets somewhere in their operations. A recent survey ComTech undertook for a study sponsored by...
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Responding To Continual Energy Market Change

The European power and gas industry is currently going through a period of very rapid change that has potentially far reaching consequences. While change is certainly no stranger to the industry, it requires players in the industry to constantly re-evaluate their business process and technology infrastructures in order...
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Pioneer Solutions Steps Up In Europe

Recently, I took a short briefing from Mr. Hugo Stappers of Pioneer Solutions to catch up with the company’s activities specifically in Europe. The recent Vendor Perception Study suggested that Pioneer Solutions have made some progress in terms of name recognition in Europe in recent years. I learned...
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What Happened to Credit Risk?

After the collapse of the merchants, credit risk was the bogeyman of the energy sector. The collapse of Enron and other merchants really had the industry focused on credit and credit risk and looking for solutions. Around that time, a couple of vendors emerged in the form of...
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Shifting Markets and Impacts Discussion

The market for CTRM software is not homogenous and consists of a number of overlapping markets identified by commodity group, geography and industry niche. For example, a generator in Florida will likely have a different set of needs than a rubber producer in Asia. In the past, we...
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So how bad are the nat gas and power markets? Ask a trader after they get their bonus.

The US and EUR gas and power markets are bad enough that traders are going to make bonuses of less than $500,000 for 2015! Yeah, I know, its hard to get worked up about the average trader “only” making a $450k bonus, but in a market where that...
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So how bad are the nat gas and power markets? Ask a trader after they get their bonus.

The US and EUR gas and power markets are bad enough that traders are going to make bonuses of less than $500,000 for 2015! Yeah, I know, its hard to get worked up about the average trader “only” making a $450k bonus, but in a market where that...
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