Canada is the largest source of U.S. energy imports and the second-largest destination for U.S. energy exports behind only Mexico. Energy is an important component of trade between Canada and the United States. In 2019, based on the latest annual…

NEW YORK (Reuters) by Jessica Resnick-Ault – Oil prices rose on Friday after an unexpected fall in the May U.S. jobless rate and OPEC’s decision to bring forward to Saturday discussions on whether to extend record production cuts. Brent crude…

Christopher LaFemina is managing director, global metals and mining equities research at Jefferies LLC, a global investment bank and financial services company. He talked to Diana Kinch and Paul Hickin about metals market trends as the COVID-19 crisis gradually eases,…

The Request for Proposal (RFP), often following the Request for Information (RFI), has long been the key selling/buying document, depending on which way you look at things. The process would usually go something like; 1. Requirements definition 2. Vendor research…

2020 has been quite a roller coaster ride—and it’s not even halfway over yet. To be sure, in recent weeks WTI crude reached a little bit of oil price stability compared to what we have been experiencing. But by no…

Dublin – 4th June 2020 – Fenergo, the leading provider of digital transformation, customer journey and client lifecycle management (CLM) solutions for financial institutions (FIs), and Chartis Research, the leading provider of research and analysis on the global market for…

Once in a generation a new graduate joins the elite circle of globally recognized and traded commodities. Julien Hall, head of metals pricing, APAC at S&P Global Platts, and Fiona Boal, head of commodities at S&P Dow Jones Indices, look…

Amazon.com went down last week. It makes up over half the revenue for a trillion dollar behemoth. Let’s just say uptime is critical. A short window of grace The first thing we can learn about this outage is that you…

SimCorp, a leading provider of integrated, front-to-back, multi-asset investment management solutions and services to the world’s largest buy-side institutions, today announces the successful go-live of several clients worldwide, completed with SimCorp’s full remote implementation… Source: Bobs Guide Latest News

Today, the acquisition of eZ-nergy by Energy One was officially announced as completed by Energy One CEO, Shaun Ankers via an announcement on the ASX. In that announcement, Shaun stated, “eZ is a great business, with 45 customers in 9…

4th June, 2020 – Energy One is pleased to advise it has completed the acquisition of eZ-nergy SAS, a Company incorporated in France. Energy One Limited purchased eZ-nergy for a total outlay of €4,000,000 (approx. A$6.6M at the current exchange…

Like other vendors, FIS has been busy during this lockdown period, Ms. Irina Reitgruber, of FIS Energy & Commodities, told me last week during a catch up call. “We have seen many people looking for solutions and have been busy…

MORS Software invites all banking professionals to take part in the Liquidity Risk Management Survey 2020. The survey is open for replies until 26 July 2020. All participants will receive the survey report in autumn 2020. It takes 3 minutes…

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Rosneft (ROSN.MM), which closed its oil trading arm after sanctions were imposed by U.S. authorities in February, has set up a new Geneva-based trading business, four trading sources familiar with the matter said. The new business,…

More countries now capable of triggering a wider crisis Source: Risk feed

(Reuters) – An oil and gas consortium testing blockchain distributed ledger software said results of its pilot were promising, paving way for the group’s members to start using the technology at production sites. The OOC Oil & Gas Blockchain Consortium,…

Sharp fall in Q1 RWAs followed removal of duplicate data Source: Risk feed

Visualization tools bring greater insight to deliver the winning edge BOSTON, MA, June 3, 2020 – FundCount, LLC, a worldwide provider of accounting and investment analysis software, today announced that it was awarded the title of Best Client Accounting Solution…

The global food supply chain, as well as demand for agricultural products, faces an unprecedented threat from the coronavirus pandemic. Livelihoods have been destroyed and economies dragged down, while prices of basic foodstuffs soared and countries imposed measures to limit…

Underground natural gas storage capacity in the Lower 48 states has remained relatively flat since 2012. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) measures working natural gas storage capacity in two ways: design capacity and demonstrated peak capacity. Both measures of…