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ComFin Came to Visit

It’s not very often I get visited in my hometown of Brno, Czechia by a client. In fact, I can count this rare occurrence on one hand and must... continue reading

Why Your E/CTRM May Not be the Best Credit Tool for your Business

ComTech has long stated that C/ETRM is, in fact, a misnomer. It stands for Commodity Trading and Risk Management but over the years risk management has become increasingly complex... continue reading

Hitachi Energy Positions Around the Energy Transition

Hitachi Energy occupy an interesting position as a vendor from our perspective as analysts. In earlier versions of our published book on CTRM software, we highlighted the asset heavy... continue reading

Enuit Upbeat about Asia-Pacific Region

Enuit always has quite a presence in the Asia-Pacific region in our Vendor Perception Studies and so far, this year is no different (the report is in progress). Much... continue reading

Preparing for the Next Phase of Growth – Amphora

I recently spoke with Chris Mudry and David Glasspool of Amphora.  Over the last few years, since Chris took over, Amphora has seen some success in the market with... continue reading

Phlo System’s 40-Point Plan for Customer Success

For any CTRM/CM vendor, implementation and support can be a key differentiator. I recently spoke with Jasmine Assan of Phlo Systems about its implementation approach and much more. Jasmine... continue reading

VAKT Targets Global Presence and Users

On the back of good growth such as achieving a 70% adoption rate in the NW European barge market, VAKT is expanding and moving onto new targets as outlined... continue reading

Oil Surpluses and Conspiracies

Back in 2005, I wrote a book with Peter C. Fusaro called Energy & Environmental Hedge Funds – The New Investment Paradigm. Within the book, we did a bit... continue reading

CubeLogic Sees Active Market and Opportunity

For Cubelogic CEO, Lee Campbell, growing Cubelogic’s business is about both organic growth and potentially, via acquisition. While significant efforts are now underway to scale the business for growth... continue reading

Where is the Recruitment Action?

As an analyst, I often find headhunters have some of the best information about what is going on in the market and so last week, I spoke with Robert... continue reading

EUDR Postponed?

So it seems as if the EY deforestation legislation is being delayed. On October 2, the EU Commission announced its plan to delay the EUDR’s start. This delay must of... continue reading

Fendahl Looking at a Record Year

Fendahl sees a very hectic market for CTRM and related software now, says Henry Thornalley of Fendahl. “There are some very large RFP’s doing the rounds at the moment... continue reading

Enuit Sees and Responds to an Active Market

Enuit continues to add new features and functionality to ENTRADE with a focus on the next generation of users, says David Meyers at Enuit. Ganesh Natarajan, Enuit’s COO, added... continue reading

Energy One Announces Strategic Marketing Partnership with PowerBot

Energy One announced via a LinkedIn post that it had cemented a marketing alliance with PowerBot. “We are delighted to announce that we have entered into a strategic marketing... continue reading

VAKT’s vSure Roadmap will Deliver Digitalization Benefits to other Oil Markets

VAKT’s recent successes with vSure in terms of adoption and trade volumes, as well as its plans to enter new markets, was recently discussed with CEO, Tasja Botha. Ms.... continue reading

Cubelogic Readies for More Growth

I recently spoke with the CEO of Cubelogic – Lee Campbell. It was fifteen-years ago that Lee helped found Cubelogic and there has been a lot of water under... continue reading

Three Macro Trends To Watch

Risk, Risk, and Risk Twice in the last few days I have been asked what I see in the market at the macro level. In both instances, I have... continue reading

CTRMRadio – The Podcast

ComTech innovated the Commodity Tech podcast several years ago with CTRMRadio. This year, we turned it into a video podcast as it had been and still is available in... continue reading

Phlo Systems adding Risk Functionalities to opsPhlo

Phlo Systems has been busy in recent months adding significant functionality to its opsPhlo software solution – opsPhlo ‘combines powerful CTRM functionalities and comprehensive ERP capabilities with seamless digital... continue reading

Increasingly Event Driven Need for Risk Managers…

Ian Sloggett, Sales Director at CubeLogic in the UK, says that it had a hugely successful year in 2023 signing and implementing some huge customers including two major oil... continue reading

Multi Tenanted SaaS CTRM in the Cloud – CTRM Cubed

It’s been a while since we visited with CTRM Cubed and so it was good to talk with Simon Piercy this week and get a short catch up. CTRM... continue reading