Technology & Commodity Reports
Report on High Frequency Trading (HFT): WFE
Paris, May 2013
The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) released a review on High Frequency Trading (HFT), describing it as a technology that financial firms are embracing around the world. Besides, the study notes the many initiatives and risk management practices that exchanges have adopted to enhance the safety, stability and integrity of the markets.
'Smart Cities': Report
Boulder, 23 May 2013
“Smart Cities”, examines the evolution of the smart city market, detailing the impacts on key technology markets, including smart grids, water management, transportation, building energy efficiency, and government services. It also compares approaches to the smart city in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East and provides detailed profiles of major smart city projects in each region.
Drilling Technology Unlocking Oil US Reserves
Washington DC, 6 May 2013
The U.S. government's recent assessment of recoverable oil and natural gas in the Bakken and Three Forks formations reinforces what industry has learned. New technology is unlocking vast resources unreachable even a few years ago, Continental Resources President Rick Bott said Sunday on Platts Energy Week, an all-energy news and talk television program.
2013 Cost of Compliance Survey report
London, February 2013
Thomson Reuters Governance, Risk and Compliance surveyed more than 800 compliance practitioners, including a significant number of heads of compliance and chief executives, from financial services firms around the world between November 2012 and January 2013, to canvass their views on the costs of compliance and the greatest challenges they expected to face during the year ahead. This is essential reading to understand how everyone will tackle the response to the increasing volumes of regulatory material being published every day.
Global trade increasingly dominated by the complex and circuitous routes
Geneva, 27 February 2013
Global trade is increasingly dominated by the complex and circuitous routes followed by goods and services as they are upgraded into finished products, a new UNCTAD report says. These “global value chains” (GVCs), orchestrated for the most part by transnational corporations (TNCs), offer opportunities for poor countries to gain access to international markets, just as they offer opportunities for statistical confusion to economists.
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E/CTRM Technology Market Requirements
London, 1 February 2013
CommodityPoint, the leading analyst organization covering the energy and commodity trading and risk management (E/CTRM) technology markets, is undertaking a research effort to quantify the ability of current E/CTRM systems to meet the needs of their users, both now and in the future. The fractionated nature of E/CTRM markets create differing functional/technical requirements for each market segment, whether defined by commodities such as oil, power, gas, grains, softs, or metals; those that hold and manage hard assets vs. those that do not; speculative traders vs. those that only hedge; or by specific geographic requirements.
5 Critical Success Factors in ETRM Implementations
London, 6 December 2012
With the possible exception of large-scale ERP applications such Oracle or SAP, Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM) systems are most likely the largest single information technology investment that an energy market participant will make. Beyond the license costs (which will run between several hundred thousand dollars up to tens of millions of dollars), implementation costs, as consistently demonstrated by CommodityPoint research, will increase that spend from 100 - 300%. Given the scale of this investment, it is critical that the right solution is initially identified and properly implemented—ETRM project failures will lead to huge losses in time and dollars; and potentially put careers at risk: A New CommodityPoint White Paper
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Chartis Research Issues 2012 RiskTech100 Report
London, 1 November 2012
Chartis Research, the leading provider of research and analysis for risk management technology, announced today that it has released the RiskTech100 report for 2012. The RiskTech100 report can be downloaded for free from the new RiskTech Forum website at www.risktech-forum.com. The RiskTech Forum is the leading independent resource for the global risk technology community.
Affordable E/CTRM
London, 10 August 2012
Recent CommodityPoint research, including the 2011 CTRM Market Size Report, indicate that license fees for the large-scale, traditionally installed systems are now generally above $1,000,000 for those companies that operate in the top and upper middle tiers of the market—those companies employing more than 50 trading staff, trading more than a single commodity, or operating in multiple geographies.
The CTRM Landscape
London, July 2012
Commodities Now: To keep up with today’s commodity market trends for growth and sophistication, traders and risk/asset managers need to focus on both operational practices and technological capabilities to achieve better performance. Recent market volatility and the encroachment of new regulatory and reporting requirements has created a growing demand for a more effective and flexible commodity trading and risk management framework and the systems and software applications that support them – the CTRM systems.
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