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Interview with Tasja Botha CEO of VAKT – CTRMRadio 52

We interviewed VAKT CEO – Tasja Botha – to find out more about VAKT, the achievements of the first year with Tasja as CEO and where it goes from... continue reading

Electrification is Taking Place Everywhere and is of Course an Aspect of the Net Zero Push and Energy Transition. What are Your Views on This?

We ask the CTRM Thought Leaders to share their views on the growing trend of electrification, which is taking place across industries and regions. As a key aspect of... continue reading

An Interview with EnergyOne CEO – Shaun Ankers – CTRMRadio 51

Shaun Ankers is CEO of EnergyOne and in this discussion he talks about its recent financial results, its business strategy, its operations in European energy markets and its one... continue reading

An interview with Sunil Biswas, CEO, ION Corporates – CTRMRadio 50

In this episode we talk to Sunil Biswas, CEO of ION Corporates covering many topics such as product strategy, several of its products such as Endur, Aspect, RightAngle, and... continue reading

Trade Surveillance in Energy & Commodities – CTRMRadio 49

In this podcast, ComTech talks with Shane Henley of CubeLogic and Aviv Handler of ETR Advisory about trade surveillance in energy & commodities. What is trade surveillance, what are... continue reading

ComTech at Commodity Trading week APAC 2025

We recently attended Commodities Peoples’ Commodity Trading Week APAC 2025 in Singapore. It was very well attended and went off well. In this video we take a look at... continue reading

ComTech at 2025 E-World

ComTech was represented by Dr. Irina Reitgruber this year at E-World and she had a very busy day. She did film many of the vendors in the E/CTRM space... continue reading

An Introduction to DycoTrade – An Interview with Cees Poortman, CEO, DycoTrade

ComTech Advisory Who is Dycotrade and how did it get started as a business? Cees Poortman: DycoTrade, headquartered in the Netherlands, is a Microsoft partner delivering an end-to-end commodity... continue reading

Interview with Lee Campbell about the CubeLogic success story

Interviewed by Comtech Affiliate Analyst – Dr. Irina Reitgruber. Recently, I had the pleasure of interviewing Lee Campbell, whom I’ve known since our time together at OpenLink about 10–15... continue reading

Trends in Commodities in 2025 Impacting CTRM Software – CTRMRadio 48

As 2025 is unveiled, we asked a number of senior CTRM and related software executives what they saw as the key trends in commodities for 2025 and what impact... continue reading

How much is geopolitics now driving commodities and what additional software requirements are people looking for to cater for all forms of geopolitical drivers?

Throughout the last couple of years, ComTech has noted a considerable shift in terms of drivers from purely that of fundamentals of supply and demand to geopolitically-driven factors. That... continue reading

2024 CTRM Vendor and Products Perceptions Report

The Commodity Technology Advisory’s Vendor Perception Study (VPS) is a biennial survey and analysis conducted to establish end-user and market influencer perceptions of the CTRM vendors and software products,... continue reading

FIS: The Evolution from Legacy ETRM to Modern Cloud-Native, AI-Powered Solution

Migrating ETRM solutions to the cloud has become standard practice in today’s market. Almost every tender for ETRM/CTRM implementations now requires cloud deployment, often alongside a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering.... continue reading

Innovating Metals Solutions for a World in Turmoil

Over the last several years, the influence of geopolitics has been increasingly keenly felt by those involved in commodity supply chains to the point where it could be argued... continue reading

The Pros and Cons of SaaS Deployed E/CTRM – CTRMRadio 47

In this episode of CTRMRadio we look at SaaS deployed ETRM / CTEM and Commodity Management solutions – the pros and cons. We talk with Dmtry Mykhalchuk, CEO of... continue reading

Sourcebook 2024

This Commodity Technology Advisory (ComTech) CTRM & RM Sourcebook of Software Suppliers and Products is designed to be a highly usable and informationally rich resource for those seeking insights into the... continue reading

VPP Market Study

The European energy system is undergoing a revolutionary shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources known as the energy transition. However, the primary challenge facing energy systems with... continue reading

Facilitating The Energy Transition: Brady’s Approach – Interview with Chris Regan Managing Director of Brady Technologies

Recently, I had a chance to discuss market changes related to the energy transition with Chris Regan, the Managing Director of Brady. I asked him few questions, some were... continue reading

Life At A Commodities Focused Consulting Firm – An Interview with Mark Ferguson

Hello Mark, before we begin, can we start with a quick intro from you please… Thanks Gary, and yes, I’m Mark Ferguson, Business and Partner Development at BBGC Services... continue reading