Essent Xpress, a trading platform developed by Essent Energy Trading, is for traders who like to get their hands dirty. Using its cross-commodity and structured products expertise in the physical and financial energy markets, Essent built the online bilateral trading platform for structured products that don't yet sit within the liquid exchanges, but for which there is growing demand for risk management.

"Most of the liquid risk has been taken care of in Europe," says Stephen Cornish, Essent