CTRM Radio

We had quite a conversation with Andre Jaeger of Ion Commodities recently to learn more about Ion Commodities, its strategy, positioning and plans. Patrick Reames and I then discussed what we had heard as analysts in the space. The conversation covered many topics but included the impacts of the Ukraine-Russia war, general market conditions, Ion's products, Carbon and emissions, renewables and muc...

ComTech has issued a new report available for free at ctrmcenter.com on Trends in Commodities Risk Management Technologies (https://www.ctrmcenter.com/publications/reports/trends-in-commodity-risk-management-technologies/). The report was sponsored by NASDAQ Risk Platform, Amphora and Commodities People and we discuss its findings with Adrian Carr of NASDAQ Risk Platform, David Glasspool of Amphor...

High commodity prices and volatility, inflationary pressures and FX volatility are all features of today's commodity markets. This is driving more emphasis on risk and cash management. We talk to Martin Hiller of FORRS and Lance Fogtman of Ion about the linkage between CTRM and Treasury.

In this episode we talk with J. Lance Fogtman, VP of Product Strategy, ION Commodities and Hugo Stappers of Hitachi Energy about what they are seeing in terms of market requirements around carbon and net zero. We thanks our guests for their participation and you for listening. Please do like and share this podcast if you found it useful.

An ETRM / CTRM software acquisition and implementations can impact the entirety of a wholesale commodity-centric company and are a very significant investment in terms of cost and effort required to realize the benefits first envisioned when purchasing the system. Given those costs, and the risks involved should the project fail in part or whole, in this episode of CTRMRadio we’re discussing the t...

The energy transition has really just started and will continue for many years. as we move from traditional generation assets towards smaller, distributed renewables, what might the impacts on ETRM software be? Will there be new requirements? New solutions? We asked four vendors for their insights and opinions including Shaun Ankers, CEO of Energy One, Chris Regan, Business Lead of Energy STP at B...

After 2-years of disruption to trade shows, conferences and other networking, informational and educational events in the commodities industries, what have we learned? Is the future face-to-face or online? Are online webinars effective or will podcasting take off as a way to educate and inform? Commodity Technology Advisory talks to three leaders in the field. First we talk to co-host of the succe...

We talk to three experts in data management about data management and what is new as it relates to commodity technology. Kindly sponsored by Enuit. We spoke with Richard Quigley, CEO and founder of Ventriks, Chris Hembrecht, Director of Product Management at Morningstar and Mark Earthey, Non-Executive Director for Matrica. Patrick Reames and Gary M. Vasey of ComTech then discuss what they had lear...

In this episode, we take a look at how volatile power markets like the UK might drive technology innovation and focus in on three vendors - Brady with PowerDesk, Enegen with Atom and CubeLogic with risk management. Kindly sponsored by Enuit we talk with Chris Regan and Dmitri Ishutin of Brady, Ian Sloggett of CubeLogic and Chris Fisher of Enegen. Our thanks to them for participating.

Commodity Management software? What is it and how is defined? We talk to Richard Philcox at SAP, David Meyers at Enuit, and George Olney at iRely to get their opinions and find out more about this important class of software. CTRMRadio is an ad hoc podcast from Commodity Technology Advisory LLC. It is sponsored by Enuit and hosted by CTRMCenter.

ESG is the new buzzword in commodities and will have significant impacts going forward on trade. In this episode we talk to Simon Ring of Pole Star, Adam Hearne of Carbonchain.com and Philip Lilliefelth of Vasanda to learn more about a solution initiative all three companies are engaged in to support ESG issues in supply chains. CTRMRadio is brought to you by leading analysts, Commodity Technology...

The energy transition means shifting from large-scale fossil and nuclear generation to small, distributed renewables and batteries. We talk to Enspired Trading founder and CEO, Jurgen Meyerhoffer, about this topic and explore the possible future as well as the challenges to get there. We also discuss these challenges with Brady Technologies' Product Director, Chris Regan, with Chris Fisher, Busine...

CTRMRadio revisits disruptive technologies in Commodities. We talk with Jochen Herrman of Baringa Partners and Ross Attril of EnergyOne about overall trends and around a tool for business process automation specifically as an example. At the same time, ComTech is working on an update report in disruptive tech. due out end Q2 2021 and we seek your input via a short set of questions at https://www.s...

ComTech takes a look at the potential impacts of climate and carbon on CTRM and CM software. We talk to Peter C. Fusaro of Global Change Associates, David Kane, Partner with Baringa and Bruce Tozer of Gen10 about the issues and likely outcomes.

We introduce the new ComTech white paper - Three Trends in CTRM/CM for 2021 now available on the CTRMCenter.com and explore these and other trends. We talk to Andre Jaeger of ION Commodities and Doug Gyani of Principia Consulting about what they see impacting CTRM and CM before exploring the trends discussed by the white paper. Many thanks to Andre and Doug for their participation.

In this edition, I talk with Patrick about some of the issues that have impacted CTRM markets in 2020 and how we see things shaping up going forward. We cover issues like COVID19 lockdowns, Oil prices, Remote implementations and trends in technology. The report - 2020 Market Sizing, Outlook and Trends is for purchase on CTRMCenter at https://www.ctrmcenter.com/publications/reports/2020-market-sizi...

CTRMRadio 18 looks at three AI use cases in Commodities. We speak with Philip Lilliefielth of Vasanda about its efforts to optimize commodity transportation, Randy Wilson, CEO at Aquilon about AI use in the back office, and James Matthews of AgFlow about using AI with agricultural data to aid in risk management. Following up on our research into disruptive technologies (https://www.ctrmcenter.com/...

EnergyOne is an Australian ETRM and related software vendor and a public company that probably isn't too well known in Europe. However, it acquired UK-based Contigo a couple of years ago and more recently eZ-nergy. We looked at these acquisitions in this edition of CTRMRadio talking to Mr. Simon Wheeler, CEO of Contigo, Mr. Johann Zamboni, CEO of eZ-nergy and Ms. Karen Sanders, Head of Professiona...

ComTech looks into digitalization in commodities. What does it mean and what is the impact on CTRM and CM software? Guests include Mr Matt. Barrett CEO of Adaptive (www.weareadaptive.com), Mr. Dale Emmerson, Director of Business Development at Igloo (www.iglootradingsolutions.com), Mr. Doug Gyani, Managing Consultant of Principia Consulting (www.principia-consulting.com) and Mr. David Corthorn, Ch...

In this episode of CTRMRadio, we examine a real world use of artificial intelligence (more specifically deep learning) in the energy trading markets. We visit with two experts from Enverus - Don Davidson, Sr. Director of Development & Architecture and Rob Allerman, Sr. Director of Power Analytics – to learn how deep learning tools are improving that company’s ability to more accurately forecast en...

CTRMRadio Edition 14 looks at Coronavirus impact on CTRM vendors and their customers. We speak with Manuv Garg, CEO of Eka, Cassie Livesey of Gen10, Simon Piercy of CTRM Cubed and Ganesh Natarajan, MD Enuit Europe about business continuity in a lockdown environment.

This edition of CTRMRadio visits E-world in Essen, Germany where we talk to vendors and participants about the trade show and trends in the industry that people are talking about. We talk with Dr. Kashif Javaid of Contigo, Mr. Matthew Bush and Ms. Debbie Bavin of Brady, Mr. Colin Cooper of Eka, Mr. Simon Piercy of CTRMCubed, Mr. Markus Allard of Beacon, Mr. Dale Emmerson of Igloo and Mr. Johann Za...

Commodity Technology Advisory LLC talk to Ian Tobin of Brady and Roderick Austin Of CubeLogic about trends in commodity credit risk management. Thanks to our guests for their participation in this edition of CTRMRadio.

CTRMRadio 11 looks at CTRM delivered as a service in the cloud - perhaps even instantly on entry of a credit card. We talked to Simon Piercy, CEO of CTRM Cubed, David Leevan, CEO of cQuant and Matt Barrett, CEO and Co-founder of Adaptive to learn more.

In this CTRMRadio edition, Patrick Reames of ComTech talks to Glen Ragland of CAPCO, Colin Cooper of Eka, and David Mayers of Enuit about the unique CTRM requirements for LNG.