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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In our book and many different papers over the years, Patrick and I have talked about the evolution of C/ETRM software in terms of technology adoption curves and market dislocations. Some of you might be familiar with out model? The general idea is that the technology adoption curve...
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We would like to thank Agiboo for their Bronze sponsorship of the 2017 CTRMConference to be held in Amsterdam on October 5th. Agiboo BV, headquartered in The Netherlands, is a provider of commodity trade and risk management solutions with a focus on agricultural and soft commodities and specifically Cocoa,...
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There are a host of consultancy companies that are focused on the various aspects of commodity trading and CTRM Software, and occasionally one of them morphs into becoming a software vendor. FERDEC, a German-based consultancy, now in its 5th year of business was founded as a very specific...
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Aspect have signed up as a break sponsor for the 2017 CTRMConference. Aspect (www.aspectenterprise.com) is a leading global provider of multi-commodity trade, risk and operations management applications delivered Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) in the cloud. With almost 500 customers in 90 countries, it’s one of the fastest growing providers with...
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We are pleased to announce that Moritz Volland, PhD, will be presenting at the CTRM Conference on October 5th in Amsterdam. Dr. Volland will present on New Insights Through Unstructured Data: News Analytics in Commodity Market Trading Models.. Mortiz i......
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A few years ago, I was in charge of the operations of a power trading in firm in Prague reporting to the Board of Directors. I discovered just how stressful a job can truly be and I learned a lot about the realities of commodity trading and businesses...
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When ComTech puts out a research report, it is free of charge. More importantly perhaps, we don’t collect any information about who is downloading and using the research. This means its really easy to download our research and thousands of you do for each and every report. However,...
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I’m very much looking forward to seeing the results in a couple of months of our latest snapshot survey around risk management. Having spent a couple of years managing a trading firm, I developed a new and deep respect for risk management. Suddenly, everything had risks attached to...
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ComTech is undertaking some research into risk management in all its forms in the industry and we would very much like your help. Please do go over and complete our ‘snapshot’ survey and give us your insights and opinions. It is a short survey designed to take as...
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