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It seems that many commodity traders, particularly those in the energy space, have held on to the belief that Dodd-Frank would never take effect – Republicans would win in November and kill it or lobbying would be enough to weaken or dilute the rules enough that they would have not real teeth. Unfortunately, with JPMorgan’s [...]
Posted: May 11, 2012, 3:24 pm
Amphora, Inc. announced this morning that they had acquired a gas and power trading system called “Affinity” from Societe Generale. According to the press release, the system encompasses trading, scheduling and settlement of gas and power trades, credit and includes “advanced risk and reporting features.” Amphora’s president, David Newton, is quoted in the press release [...]
Posted: May 8, 2012, 12:26 pm
By Patrick Reames, Managing Director – CommodityPoint CommodityPoint, in our recent study Data Management Solutions, observes that the data management software category is one that has seen rapid growth in recent years, driven by the recognition that there are multiple and specialized issues in the commodity trading and risk management industry that have not yet [...]
Posted: April 26, 2012, 4:10 pm
The CFTC issued an interim final rule on Wednesday of this week that is finally starting to illuminate one of the pressing questions faced by market participants – What qualifies as a swap and what does that mean to me? In their new interim rule, a revision to Part 32, the CFTC does assert that [...]
Posted: April 20, 2012, 1:38 pm
When I was a very young lad, my mother used to tell me that if I got up out of bed at night, the Boogie Man that lived under that bed would grab me by the ankles and drag me down to the depths of hell and into his kitchen/dungeon, where I would be served [...]
Posted: April 18, 2012, 12:42 pm
I had the opportunity to visit with the folks at ENSYTE Energy Software last week to catch up with one of the early pioneers in the energy technology space. This is a company that was formed in 1981 as Michael Smith & Associates (and rebranded to ENSYTE in the late 80′s), and one that I’ve [...]
Posted: April 18, 2012, 10:50 am
CommodityPoint has just released the results of our latest market research effort, the 2012 E/CTRM Vendor Perception Study, a report made possible thru the generous support of our sponsors, Aspect Enterprise Solutions, Brady Plc, capSpire, and iRely. Market perceptions of leadership in various aspects of E/CTRM are useful indicators as to which product companies have [...]
Posted: April 12, 2012, 11:28 am
Natural gas futures closed below $2 for May this afternoon, continuing a slide prompted by a warm winter, high storage levels and record production. Despite some high profile producers stacking rigs and shutting in production, the market finds itself in a worst case scenario right now – not much room left in storage and low [...]
Posted: April 11, 2012, 3:59 pm
As crude derived fuel prices are skyrocketing across the board, one airline seems to be taking a novel approach to the problem – instead of simply hedging, why not make your own. According to a report in the DelcoTimes website, Delta Airlines is interested in purchasing a shuttered ConocoPhillips 185,000 bpd refinery in Trainer Pa, [...]
Posted: April 4, 2012, 5:56 pm
Aspect announced today that Geneva-based oil trading firm, Souz Petrolium, has licensed the company’s web-delivered CTRM product AspectCTRM, to help manage Souz’s crude trading, inventory management and blending operations in Europe, Russia and Asia/Pac regions. The announcement quotes a Souz executive who notes that one of the reasons they chose the system was because many [...]
Posted: April 4, 2012, 5:30 pm
