The 2019 Commodity Technology Advisory LLC (ComTech) CTRM Software Sourcebook is designed to be a useful and highly usable resource to help those seeking information regarding the capabilities and coverage of products within the ETRM/CTRM software space. It is a…

Staff at the New York Fed are working on a series of backward-looking averages Source: Risk feed

CTRMRadio – Episode 1 of 2019 on the Disaggregation of CTRM featuring Bob Stillwell of Capco, Richard Williamson and Bruce Tozer of Gen10 and Simon Piercy of CTRMCubed along with Gary Vasey and Patrick Reames of ComTech. Continue reading CTRMRadio…

New methanol plants under development in the United States are increasing natural gas consumption in the industrial sector. Methanol plants are among the most natural gas-intensive industrial end users and require natural gas both as a feedstock and for process…

This is the concluding article in a three-part series exploring oil, plastics demand and sustainability. European governments and corporates are setting ambitious goals on plastics recycling, but there are practical and economic hurdles to get over if the policies are…

LONDON (Reuters) – The amount of future new wind capacity in Europe financed last year rose to a record high, industry group WindEurope said on Thursday, as falling costs and increased competition made it possible for investors to fund more…

Yesterday the Bundesnetzagentur, Germany’s National Regulatory Authority, announced that Uniper Global Commodities SE has been fined €150,000 for breaches of REMIT relating to market manipulation. In addition, two traders have been fined €1,500 and €2,000 respectively. The press release in…

Random forest technique sheds light on flux in how factors mix, manager says Source: Risk feed

Standard Chartered and Barclays using artificial intelligence to detect money-laundering violations Source: Risk feed

Departure from blockchain firm follows other top exits in last few months Source: Risk feed

The team at Adaptive are thrilled to celebrate the third anniversary of our Barcelona office. Starting with one major project, this office is now 35 strong and delivers high quality software for numerous financial industry clients from the heart of…

A new software platform aims to transform cybersecurity by allowing managers to monitor the whole of their cybersecurity from one single screen. ThreatAware is unique in bringing together cybersecurity tools and company-wide compliance procedures on one easy-to-use dashboard, which alerts…

Vanilla exposures explain as much as two-thirds of returns, authors say Source: Risk feed

The industrial sector is the largest user of energy in the world, accounting for approximately 55% of world delivered energy in 2018, according to the International Energy Agency. Within the industrial sector, the basic metal industry is one of the…

(Reuters) – Asian wheat millers are snapping up cargoes of the grain from Argentina to arrive in the first-half of the year, typically peak-export season for traditional supplier Australia where a second year of drought is hitting production. Large volumes…

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Oil prices slipped away from 2019 highs on Wednesday, with surging U.S. supply and slowing economic growth tempering upward pressure from supply cuts led by producer club OPEC and from Washington’s sanctions on Iran and Venezuela. U.S….

Plastics and chemicals will account for the largest share of global crude demand growth by 2030, and a third wave of petrochemicals expansion underway in the Middle East is looking to cash in on the trend,  as investment into downstream…

Path Solutions, a leading provider of Sharia-compliant software solutions and technology-based services, and Gold level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), today announced that its world-class core banking platform, iMAL has achieved Powered by Oracle Cloud status and is now available…

Skyee, China’s innovative e-commerce payments business, has selected Accuity, the leading global provider of financial crime compliance, payments and counterparty Know Your Customer (KYC) solutions, to strengthen and streamline its compliance screening capability. Skyee will implement Firco… Accuity Source: Bobs…

Brexit confusion forces Japan index provider to look beyond UK Source: Risk feed