Energy trading
Confronting change in European ETRM
Tim Rogers, head of sales and business development at Contigo, talks to Energy Risk about the challenges facing the energy industry
UK commodity traders face regulatory chaos from Brexit
Some trading units may move to EU to retain passporting rights
CTRM software house of the year: Allegro
Developer gained clients despite cutbacks in IT spending by energy firms
Moving to the cloud: The next frontier for E/CTRM systems?
As energy and commodity firms cut their IT budgets, a growing number of companies are exploring hosted solutions as a way to cut costs and make their IT infrastructure more nimble
IT heads of energy trading firms wrestle with budget cuts
Migration to cloud-based solutions considered as budgets fall 20–25% in 2016
Energy Risk Software Rankings 2016
OpenLink voted best overall ETRM platform in annual survey of favourite vendors, implementation specialists, data providers and data managers
Falling budgets are top IT worry for energy firms
Tech spending by energy trading companies is set to plummet in 2016, survey finds
Seeking a systemic role
By overhauling old practices and creating a dynamic new culture, Banca IMI hopes to place itself at the centre of the energy trading system. Stefano Rivellini, global head of commodity sales, explains how, by investing heavily in the physical energy…
ETRM systems emerge as the cockpit for business
In an increasingly complex marketplace, energy trading and risk management (ETRM) systems have become the flight deck from which firms pilot their entire business activity, says Sidhartha Dash, research director at Chartis Research
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Make sure your vote is counted in Energy Risk's annual ETRM software rankings
Energy Risk Asia Awards 2015: The winners
The 2015 Energy Risk Asia awards recognise excellence across commodity and energy trading and risk management. We reveal the winners
Singapore power and LNG ambitions face challenges
Singapore is seeking to supplement its position as Asia's oil trading powerhouse by promoting itself as a regional hub for power and liquefied natural gas. While these ambitions have met with modest success, they also face major challenges
The challenge of optimising physical energy assets
How energy trading organisations can improve the way they optimise their assets
Maximising refinery profits using portfolio optimisation
Petroleum refining is a complicated, multi-dimensional task that involves many tricky operating decisions. In this article, Carlos Blanco and Christopher Mammarelli explain how a portfolio-based optimisation framework can maximise the profitability of a…
Acer reappoints Pototschnig for three-year term
Barclays hires senior energy traders; CFTC's Wetjen steps down; Freepoint nabs JPM energy trader; ICBC SB boosts commodities team; ABN Amro reshuffles commodities
Index publishers’ woes endanger market transparency
Price reporting agencies have long warned of the consequences of overbearing regulation on their indexes. It now seems those prophecies are coming true
Is the financialisation of commodities being reversed?
In the past 30 years, a process of financialisation has drastically reshaped the energy and commodity sector. Now, it appears the level of diminishing marginal returns has been reached and that process is shifting into reverse, says energy market veteran…
Fall in US gas hub liquidity hampers derivatives market
Surging shale gas production in the northeast US has undermined Platts’ Gulf Coast indexes and derivatives contracts that rely on them
Video: E.on Global Commodities CRO David Port
Port comments on how risk management will be affected by Uniper spin-off
Video: Uwe Schulz, CRO of RWE Supply & Trading
Schulz speaks about threats and opportunities facing European utilities
Energy firms concerned by Mifid II ‘ability test’
The definition of a financial instrument under Mifid II and the structure of two key exemptions are worrying energy trading firms such as utilities
Video: Enron 'best' and 'lowest' career moment, says Kaminski
Vincent Kaminski opines on topics including the "best" and "lowest" moment of his career, financial regulation, oil fundamentals and European energy markets in a wide-ranging interview filmed at Energy Risk Summit USA
Goldman Sachs names global commodity sales head
Castleton appoints Mercuria CIO; Natixis recruits commodity co-head; Logler joins TrailStone; VTB Capital hires commodity head; Maersk Oil names top marketer
Energy trading technology moves gradually into the cloud
Energy trading and risk management (ETRM) software is gradually starting to make use of cloud computing – a move that could improve the efficiency and capabilities of ETRM systems while also reducing costs, say consultants and market participants