CHICAGO (Reuters) – COVID-19 outbreaks are increasing governments’ food-security concerns, and importers need U.S. corn and soybeans for the first time in a long time to meet demand, Archer Daniels Midland ADM.N Chief Executive Officer Juan Luciano said on Friday….

The list of reasons why biomass producers, traders and energy generators need to innovate and digitalise is continuously growing. The challenges of managing lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions, varying national regulations for forestry certifications, political and public interest in biomass subsidies…

Godfrey Benjamin   Oct 29, 2020 Payments giant Mastercard has announced a partnership with GrainChain, a blockchain-based supply chain management firm to enhance visibility for producers and consumers in the commodity supply chain in Latin America and North America. According to the…

The same fire that melts the butter hardens the egg. That “same fire” in Western Pennsylvania, the birthplace of American steel, was President Trump’s Section 232 tariffs. They hardened the barrier against steel imports while melting the aspirations of steelmakers…

OpRisk North America: anchoring idiosyncratic risks to macro scenarios a challenge, say experts Source: Risk feed

According to the most recent data, annual U.S. biodiesel production capacity decreased by 2%, or 49 million gallons, between January 2019 and January 2020. As of January 2020, biodiesel production capacity in the United States totaled 2.5 billion gallons (gal)…

A few years ago, ComTech had a go at defining a variety of software categories including ‘Commodity Management’, ‘CTRM’ and ‘ERP for Commodities.’ Since then, with an increasing interest on moving and managing physical commodities and declining trading margins, more…

Trading robots change market microstructure, central banks conclude; new liquidity metrics may be needed Source: Risk feed

Profile Software, a leading international financial solutions provider, announced today that Bankmed, one of the largest banks in Lebanon, went live with Acumennet by Login SA, a Profile Company, as their Group wide Treasury platform, embarking on a major digital transformation to…

AI – Expectations vs. Reality Artificial Intelligence is an evolving and chaotic system – sometimes minor variations in expectations can give a dysfunctional result. We make assumptions for the machines to work in a certain way and try to implement…

The 2020 Commodity Technology Advisory’s Vendor Perception Study is a biennial survey and analysis conducted to establish end-user and market influencer perceptions of the CTRM vendors, and to determine market leadership perceptions as well as buying criteria and brand awareness…

In many instances, technology helps Banks to better address challenges and prepare for the future. However, available as it may be, it is common that technology is not always properly used. Financial institutions across the world have not always been…

Satoshi Systems to Implement Minerva CTRM for Torq Commodities Implementation of Minerva will digitalise TORQ’s business processes and increase operations efficiency through various existing and custom built modules. The system does everything our company needs, plus there are additional cutting…

In the International Energy Outlook 2020 (IEO2020), the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that electricity generation in Asia will more than double between 2019 and 2050. EIA analyzed the impacts of changing the price of natural gas and the…

FinJS @ Home, organised by Openfin, will take place virtually on November 17th, 2020. We are excited to announce that Riko Eksteen, Head of Desktop Strategy at Adaptive and co-chair of the FDC3 project at FINOS (Fintech Open Source Foundation),…

Increased revenue 13% on a reported basis and 1% on an organic basis to $3,197 million Achieved annual run-rate revenue synergies of approximately $150 million and annual run-rate expense synergies exceeding $700 million Realized Diluted EPS of $0.03 and Adjusted…

One very important requirement in commodity trading is, of course, market data. Last week, I was introduced to a market data provider on the Ags side of things called AgFlow. Based in Geneva, Switzerland, AgFlow got started in 2013 taking…

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Citi’s former clearing head says CCPs are still competing on margin Source: Risk feed

Lawyers warn proposal could invalidate close-out netting and expose members to higher risks Source: Risk feed