The CTRM Blog

Busy working on the update to the CommodityPoint CTRM Sourcebook. If you are a vendor and haven’t sent us an updated listing please do so BEFORE September 15th as after that date no more updates will be accepted for this issue which we anticipate releasing before the end of September.

Many Thanks,

CommoditiesNow magazine is busy with its all new Commodity Business Awards program and will utilize CommodityPoint research reports in judging two of its awards categories – CTRM Software and Data Management.

The Commodity Business Awards (CBAs) reward talent and excellence throughout the commodity markets … whether that’s in the physical and/or financial arena, in trading, risk management, structuring, finance, research, advisory, logistics, legal, or specialist technology.

CBAs reward those companies that are making a significant impact on the way commodity business is conducted – recognising those institutions making a positive contribution to the development of markets, client responsibility and, ultimately, investor satisfaction.

These days, risk management is high on most trading firms’ agendas. That is risk management in both the broadest and narrowest sense. Increased oversight, regulation and both the rapid evolution and increasing speed of markets is driving this need. In a climate of price volatility, volumetric uncertainty, innovation in deal structures, changing regulations and globalization, effective risk management and the ability to respond to valuation challenges and portfolio optimization opportunities are pre-requisites to profitability for organizations that deal in commodities.

Risk Management Problems