Newcomer, Topaz Technology, has developed a trading and risk analytics platform that is currently used by a large major and several other trading companies CEO, Jon Fox, told me... continue reading
Every two years since 2004, ComTech or its predecessor has conducted the Vendor Perception Survey. Unlike anything else in the industry, as neutral analysts we get users to tell... continue reading
The announcement that Brady Technologies had divested its commodities software business to STG this morning was no surprise here. There had been a pervasive rumour for many months that... continue reading
I recently moderated a panel session at Commodity Trading Week in Houston where one of the panelists was Robert Balinski, vice president of services at Enuit. After that event,... continue reading
Fendahl is another vendor seeing a lot of demand in the market for CTRM solutions right now. Henry Thornalley told me that it had many demonstrations to do for... continue reading
One very noticeable thing at E-World last week was Brady’s booth. Not only was it very large and prominent but also very busy. I was there to visit with... continue reading
A conversation with Jan van den Brom is always enlightening and this one was long overdue. His company, Agiboo, now has around 40 customers, he told me, and he... continue reading
It had been a while since we last spoke with Commodities Engineering and its CEO, Jerome Seguin. Jerome told us that 2021 (and into 2022) had been a year... continue reading
When I got off the train at Essen main station and walked outside, something seemed to have changed. Essen didn’t look like Essen. It took a meeting with Mark... continue reading
Amphora has been getting quite a lot of traction in Dubai, David Glasspool told me last week. “We have signed three new clients there in recent months with more... continue reading
I recently had the chance to get an update from Sameer Soleja, founder, CEO and president of Molecule. Though we do tend to visit regularly, it seems that with... continue reading
Recently, I was alerted to a new ETRM vendor called Dsflow. Based in Paris, the vendor promises a new approach, SaaS, ETRM solution on its website. Last week, I... continue reading
Earlier this week, I was contacted by Inatech to be briefed on an announcement it was making. Yesterday afternoon, I spoke with Fred Bendle, Chairman and CFO, and CEO,... continue reading
Simon Piercy, founder, and CEO of CTRM Cubed, is busy building out what he describes as a new breed of ETRM solution that is fully cloud. He tells me... continue reading
Earlier this week, I spoke with Virgil Cai, the product development manager at Enuit about its metals’ capabilities. Enuit has apparently been hard at work bolstering the functionality for... continue reading
Energy One Europe is looking forward to E-World in June. Simon Wheeler, CEO, says it is one of the current foci for his staffs as they get ready to... continue reading
As most everyone in the commodities space knows, most bilateral wholesale deals require manual confirmations and invoicing, a rather archaic systems when one considers that exchanges and many brokers... continue reading
Hugo Stappers remains excited by the opportunities presented via Hitachi Energy post the acquisition of Pioneer a while ago when I caught up with him to see how things... continue reading
Last week, we had an interesting briefing from FIS regarding its strategy for tackling the sizeable oil and gas software marketplace – particularly in North America. The market for... continue reading
Like many businesses, SAP has shuttered its Russian operations in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It has also carefully monitored developments because of the war and sees... continue reading
ComFin in Vienna is a software vendor that has been around for quite some time. Originally serving the liquid hydrocarbon markets with a software product called The Bulldog, it... continue reading