{"id":5023,"date":"2018-01-10T17:10:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T11:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ctrmcenter.com\/?p=17140"},"modified":"2018-01-10T17:10:45","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T11:10:45","slug":"catching-up-with-blacklight-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comtechadvisory.com\/blog\/catching-up-with-blacklight-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching Up With Blacklight Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just before the Christmas holidays, I talked with David Edwards, Managing Director, of BlackLight Systems. BlackLight Systems claims to be the first commodity trading and risk system to be designed by \u2018traders for traders\u2019. It offers trade capture, exposure management and decision support, and boasts a modern, intuitive, and highly configurable layout on its website. \u201cIt\u2019s not a full-blown ETRM but is focused on front office and risk activities primarily,\u201d he told me. \u201cIt\u2019s a trader tool, designed for traders by traders with ease of use in mind.\u201d He went on to say that he sees BlackLight filling an underserved niche in the market, replacing trader spreadsheets, and providing visualization and risk tools for the front office generally. The software incorporates real time risk management, live mark to market, historical forward curves and a live global suite of refinery and chemical outages, Built using .Net, it is hosted in Azure and is available as a subscription service in the cloud making it ideal for smaller trading businesses or as a front office and risk tool feeding an enterprise ETRM platform.\u00a0 It also allows the vendor to offer free 30-day trials. We will be following BlackLight Systems more closely in the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctrmcenter.com\/blog\/vendor-news-blog\/catching-blacklight-systems\/\"><br \/>\nContinue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctrmcenter.com\/blog\/vendor-news-blog\/catching-blacklight-systems\/\">Catching Up With Blacklight Systems<\/a>. This article appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctrmcenter.com\/\">CTRM Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just before the Christmas holidays, I talked with David Edwards, Managing Director, of BlackLight Systems. BlackLight Systems claims to be the first commodity trading and risk system to be designed by \u2018traders for traders\u2019. 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