Reuters posted a story overnight that Exxon Mobil, the “largest non-trading energy company in the world”, is going to shed that title and start actively trading around their huge... continue reading
I just stepped in the door back from a day trip to Frankfurt where yesterday, I attended the Algo-Trading Innovation Hub hosted by Visotech attended by around 80 or... continue reading
Just recently, Contigo conducted a snap survey around disruptive technologies and I talked with Mr. Tim Rogers, head of Sales and Business Development late last week to find out... continue reading
The survey looking at CEE region vendors hasn’t had many responses to date, which is rather disappointing as there is quite a vibrant set of local vendors located in... continue reading
TRADESPARENT continues to grow and is expanding in the US and Asia, Norbert Verhagen told me in a recent catch up call. The company has just completed a rebranding... continue reading
UK-based, Europe-focused ETRM vendor, Contigo, just put out the results of a snap survey it did during March 2018. It got 56 responses and the results are very interesting.... continue reading
A couple of weeks ago, I spent the day with a team at Brady PLC headed by Ms. Libby Koehn, Chief Product Officer. It had been a while since... continue reading
Our new monthly podcast series has proven to be quite popular and is getting a lot of listeners so we hope this month’s edition on M&A in CTRM will... continue reading
While we track over 100 vendors in the CTRM and related space, we still frequently happen upon other vendors. Recently, for example, we heard of EGSSIS and saw its... continue reading
Periodically, we happen across vendors that we were not previously aware of. In the last 6-months, we have added the following just in case you missed them. Igloo – Igloo... continue reading
Kyos, founded in 2008, is a firm that provides analytics software along with some consulting and training. Its head office is located in the Netherlands. I spoke with Mr.... continue reading
Last week, I spoke with Amir Soufizadeh, Head of the Commodities & Utilities practice for BJSS. BJSS is expanding rapidly and has recently opened an office in Houston, TX.... continue reading
New vendors pop up quite frequently in the CTRM world and last week, I got an introduction to another new vendor in the form of Igloo Trading Solutions. Established... continue reading
Allegro announced this morning that they had acquired energy and commodity risk and analytics firm Financial Engineering Associates (FEA) from MSCI, who had previously bought FEA as part of... continue reading
Now that the acquisition of Openlink by ION has closed, I visited with Openlink’s EVP & CMO Nancy Pearson, and Ken Knowles, EVP of strategy & business development, this... continue reading
Just before the Easter break, I had the opportunity to talk with Lee Campbell, CEO of CubeLogic who told me that CubeLogic has essentially doubled in size over the... continue reading