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FIS sees momentum for Market Data Analyzer – Energy Edition

Data management is increasingly critical for energy and commodities companies as the datasets they must handle are expanding rapidly. Recently, I engaged in a discussion with Harshad Kolpyakwar, Head... continue reading

Agiboo – Post Acquisition – is Thriving

It’s been 90-days or so since Agiboo announced that it had been acquired by Cultura Technology and Jan van den Brom, Agiboo CEO, is happy with how things have... continue reading

Unique Footprint Differentiates Topaz

Topaz is having a busy time, according to Jon Fox, CEO. “It’s been a very interesting few months with some new customers coming on board and several others on... continue reading

Why Brady sees Igloo as an ideal solution for PPA valuation

Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) are structures that can help to provide innovative financing and help speed up the development of renewable energy and other projects. In increasing use, they... continue reading

Spire Satellites Bring Weather and Other Data to Commodity Players.

One area that is changing massively in commodities and generally is access to data. The amount and types of data accessible are expanding at prolific rates and managing that... continue reading

VAKT’s vSure Benefits its Users

The VAKT initiative was started in 2018 by a group of oil majors, traders, and trade finance providers who desired to try to solve a problem through collective action.... continue reading

Energy One Positions as a One-Stop shop for Energy

Energy One had been actively making acquisitions – particularly in Europe, for a period of time and has since been focused on leveraging those acquisitions and building up a... continue reading

Enuit Targets India as Next Big CTRM Market

Enuit has always been a vendor that sought out new markets and does have established presence in North America, Europe, Singapore, Mainland China, Japan and is now setting its... continue reading

CubeLogic Sees Credit and Risk Demand Growth

The Energy & Commodities credit software market is changing rapidly as issues like liquidity, fraud (and similar scandals), and stronger regulations with serious consequences, have emerged. A few years... continue reading

Allasso Launches Copilot – A SaaS Real-time Options Trading, Portfolio and Risk Management Platform.

Last week, I was contacted by Felix Euler, an ex-commodity trader with large mainstream type firms, about his new venture called Allasso. Felix was also a systematic options trader... continue reading

GMSL – A Dominant Vendor and Service Provider in European Gas & Power Markets

GMSL got started in 1996, was acquired by Fluxys SA in 2002 and has grown into a sizeable entity offering 24 by 7 services and software to the European... continue reading

Cumulus9 Eyes Commodity Derivative Players

Cumulus9 came to our attention recently. According to its website it is “reshaping the landscape of risk management for exchange-traded derivatives. We leverage the power of cloud technology to... continue reading

CubeLogic – Emerging as a Force in Energy & Commodities Risk

Energy & Commodities Credit software has an interesting history and has developed as a class of risk software supplementary to E/CTRM and related software. Back in the early and... continue reading

A Blast from the Past!

Something a bit different today… Here is a flickr library of the days at CommodityPoint – the precursor to ComTech – and what was then the CTRM Technical Conference... continue reading

VuePoint Solutions – Quietly Building UK ETRM Market Share

It had been a while since we heard from UK-based VuePoint Solutions, but a recent spate of marketing emails prompted me to reach out for an update. I connected... continue reading

Gen10 and it’s CommOS – Demo Report

It had been a while since we had had a demo of Gen10’s CommOS software but recently, we were afforded an opportunity to change that. Richard Williamson, CEO of... continue reading

Fendahl Sees North America as a Key Market for Growth

Michael Snayd has been in the energy and commodities trading business for a couple of decades or so already and has worked with quite a few systems in North... continue reading

Amphora EMag Presentation Fuels Demand

Amphora has been busy recently producing an EMag about its Symphony software. It even asked me to participate in the project as an industry analyst. The result can be... continue reading

Enuits’ Vision of the Future

The people at Enuit reckon they are observing some fundamental shifts in the CTRM software market. “We have been listening carefully to the market and seeing some trends in... continue reading

OpenDataDSL Readies its New Data Management Platform Targeting Energy and Commodities

OpenDataDSL is a startup vendor in the energy and commodities data management space led by Colin Hartley.  Its solution is SaaS in the Azure cloud and Colin describes it... continue reading

Thoughts on the Quor and ClearDox Partnering Announcement

Quor recently announced a partnership with ClearDox “to help organizations close the ‘automation gaps’ across the trading lifecycle.” According to the announcement, “the ClearDox intelligent applications leverage the latest... continue reading