CTRM Radio

In this special episode of CTRMRadio, Irina Reitgruber talks to Darling analytics COO - Ignacio Hidalgo - about our recent AI in Energy & Commodities research report. The report is a free download from CTRMCenter.com or ETTCenter.net in the publications section. Many thanks to Darling Analytics and to DycoTrade for sponsoring this study.

ComTech's Irina Reitgruber interviews Santanu Mohanty of FIS, Veronika Sprlakova of FIS and Miguel Angel Vicente Gonzalez of NTT Data about Joint Project Implementation. Listen in to their discussions - is it better to use the vendor's professional services team or an external implementation team? and having decided that - what are the issues you need to understand and address. Our thanks to the p...

We interviewed VAKT CEO - Tasja Botha - to find out more about VAKT, the achievements of the first year with Tasja as CEO and where it goes from here. Our thanks to Tasja. More about VAKT - https://www.vakt.com/ More about CTRM - www.ctrmcenter.com and www.ettcenter.net Please do like, share and subscribe.

Shaun Ankers is CEO of EnergyOne and in this discussion he talks about its recent financial results, its business strategy, its operations in European energy markets and its one stop shop approach. More information about Energyone at www.energyone.com. Thanks to Shaun for being our guest on this episode. Please do like, share and subscribe. CTRMRadio is also available in audio formats on all major...

In this episode we talk to Sunil Biswas, CEO of ION Corporates covering many topics such as product strategy, several of its products such as Endur, Aspect, RightAngle, and its new initiatives including a SaaS, multi-tenant version of AgTech. It was a fascinating conversation and we would like to thank Sunil for his time. Please do like, share and subscribe to CTRMRadio.

In this podcast, ComTech talks with Shane Henley of CubeLogic and Aviv Handler of ETR Advisory about trade surveillance in energy & commodities. What is trade surveillance, what are the regulations, what are the requirements, what is coming in the future and more. Please do like and share. Our thanks to our guests - Aviv Handler and Shane Henley. Shane Henley is the Head of Monitoring Solutions at...

As 2025 is unveiled, we asked a number of senior CTRM and related software executives what they saw as the key trends in commodities for 2025 and what impact that may have on the software category going forward. Views were led by geopolitics but encompassed a vast number of topics that included traceability, regulations, tariffs, electrification and the energy transition, migration to the cloud an...

In this episode of CTRMRadio we look at SaaS deployed ETRM / CTEM and Commodity Management solutions - the pros and cons. We talk with Dmtry Mykhalchuk, CEO of SaaS CTRM, GrainTrack, Saurabh Goyal, CEO of SaaS Commodity Management Phlo Systems and Bjarne Johansen, of SaaS ETRM provider - Aurora Systems to get answers. Please do like and share this podcast and subscribe to the channel. Thanks to ou...

In this episode, Irina Reitgruber of Commodity Technology Advisory interviews Christophe Malzer of Navitasoft about the recently released VPP report. Navitasoft was a sponsor of the study along with Beacon and Energy One. We thank the sponsors for making the research possible. The report was issued recently and is available as a Free download from ETTCenter.net (https://www.ettcenter.net/publicati...

In this episode, Irina Reitgruber of Commodity Technology Advisory interviews Sunny Tiwana of Energy One about the recently released VPP report. Energy One was a sponsor of the study along with Beacon and Navitasoft. We thank the sponsors for making the research possible. The report was issued recently and is available as a Free download from ETTCenter.net (https://www.ettcenter.net/publications/r...

In this episode we look at how firms are looking at supplementing legacy CTRM solutions with SaaS cloud apps in order to keep up with market shifts or business changes. We explore supplementation as a strategy and the use cases for it as well as looking at how it impacts overall architecture. We talk with Richard Williamson of Gen10, Andre Jaeger of ION Commodities and Justin Howat of Topaz. Many...

Steve Hughes, CEO of Quor, provides an update on its acquisition of Eka as well as sharing what may be next. Thanks for Steve for his participation. www.ctrmcenter.com for all things CTRM

At the end of 2024, the EUDR regulation will come into force for large and medium firms dealing with certain commodities and it will require traceablility - the tracking of the commodity from source to end use. Why will this regulation enforce traceability when others haven't? What does it mean and what is needed in a CTRM/CM solution? We asked Saurabh Goyal of Phlo Systems and Richard Williamson...

In this episode of CTRMRadio we look at data management in energy & commodities by talking with four vendors - two existing vendors and two SaaS newcomers in the form of FIS, HAKOM, Ventriks and OpenDataDSL. What is driving data management? What impact is AI having? What solutions are emerging and why? Our thanks to our guests - Harshad Kolpyakwar of FIS, Richard Quigley of Ventriks, Stefan Komorn...

Today's news was that STG had acquired Eka to merge it with Quor. I spoke to Quor CEO, Steve Hughes, about the acquisition - why Eka? How will it work? and what's next in terms of M&A? Our thanks to Steve Hughes for participating in this podcast bulletin. www. CTRMCenter.com for all things CTRM.

In this episode, we discuss the energy transition and the technologies underpinning it with Ben Hillary, CEO of Commodities People, and announce the new Energy Transition Technologies practice at ComTech Advisory with Irina Reitgruber, Affiliate Analyst at ComTech. In addition to the new practice area, we have also launched www.ettcenter.net as a research and news portal targeting at energy transi...

New technologies are available from cloud to AI that are set to change CTRM and related software. It is hoped that these technologies will make for a more cost effective and user friendly CTRM environment but will it result in a revolution or evolution? We talked with three senior software figures to see how they are using new technologies including Saeed Patel, CPOI at Quor, Saurabh Goyal, CEO at...

At the beginning of 2024, we asked a number of industry players their views on commodity and technology trends likely to impact CTRM and related software in 2024. We spoke to and thank Steve Hughes (CEO of Quor) Jan van den Brom (CEO of Agiboo) and Asbjorn Hansen (Previse Systems). I then spoke with ComTech affiliate analyst - Irina Reitgruber - to get her views and discuss what we had heard. Visi...

As many veterans leave the commodity trading and risk management industry as they reach retirement age, they take their knowledge and expertise with them. Newcomers are desperate to learn the business and the software and to fill the gap left behind. But how? Well, there are a number of books out in recent months including our own - CTRM Software: An Analyst View of a Dynamic Software Market - and...

We cover the topic of operational outsourcing in Energy & Commodities looking at both outsourcing of ETRM, CTRM and other application support services as well as the emergence of operational outsourcing - What's driving it and where is happening? Patrick talks with Russ Meyer Partner at CapCo Energy Partners and I talk with Vincent Dumontoy, GM, Belgium & France, Energy One Europe. Thanks to our g...

In CTRMRadio 38, we talk to Quor, the new entity formed by the spin off of what was called Brady Commodities acquired by STG. Patrick Reames talks with Quor CEO, Tasja Botha, about the new vendor, its strategy and future. Gary Vasey talks to Chief Business Architect, Harry Knott and with Global Head of Alliances, Connor Hoban about such topics as defending its legacy of leadership in metals, the p...

Amphora's recent announcement of Alchemy - a new concentrates solution - was the latest in a series of new entries into the metal CTRM and CM space. From a situation where most metals companies had a choice of two or three potential solutions, we now appear to have a growing and varied list of potential solutions. What's driving that explosion of metals-related solutions and are these solutions re...

To kick off the year we decided to poll a few people around the industry as to what they saw the opportunities and threats posed by 2023 might be either to the industry, their business, or both. In part 2, to be released in a couple of days, we talk to Jan van den Brom of Agiboo and Dr. Jens Bartenschlager of Fidectus. In the final part, Patrick Reames and Gary M. Vasey discuss what we have learne...

To kick off the year we decided to poll a few people around the industry as to what they saw the opportunities and threats posed by 2023 might be either to the industry, their business, or both. In part 1, we talked with Sulhi Akmehmet of Beacon Platform, Ito van Lanschot of Tradesparent, Simon Wheeler of Energy One Europe, Tasja Botha of Brady Commodities and George Bradshaw of Gen10. In part 2,...

As we face an interesting winter in Europe with volatile power and gas prices, potential power cuts and more, batteries and their role in the grid have come increasingly into focus. But, what role does a battery play and how does that role vary by geography and market? What sorts of software exists to help with optimising and managing batteries? Commodity Technology Advisory spoke with Ross Attril...