The CTRM Blog

23 January, 2012, London: Brady plc (BRY.L), the leading provider of trading, risk management and settlement solutions to the energy, metals and soft commodities sectors, is pleased to announce that a global securities and investment banking group, highly active in the exotic options market, has selected Brady’s new Structured Product trading and risk management solution to support its market-making and risk management requirements.

January 23, 2012 — New York Fator Securities LLC, a U.S. broker-dealer serving as the U.S. distribution arm of the Fator group of companies in Brazil, has selected SunGard’s Valdi Order Management System (OMS) for trade management and SunGard Global Network (SGN) for global connectivity.

Fator Securities provides asset managers, broker-dealers and other investment professionals with brokerage and trading solutions as well as electronic market access to Latin American exchanges. SunGard’s solutions will help Fator Securities manage trade execution, trade automation and connectivity to more than 120 markets and 500 brokers worldwide. Using solutions from a single provider will help Fator Securities decrease its technology costs, increase operational efficiencies and access new sources of liquidity.

Allegro Opens Office in Sydney
Leading Energy Trading & Risk Management Software Provider Expands to Meet Growing Global Demand

SYDNEY, JANUARY 19, 2012 - Allegro Development Corporation, a leading provider of energy trading and risk management (ETRM) software, announced today that it has opened an office in Sydney, Australia to meet the growing demand for its solutions in Australia and New Zealand. This expansion will enable Allegro to better support its existing customers in the region, and deliver new solutions to power and gas utilities, refiners, energy producers, traders, and commodity consumers.

We released a new Technical Briefing Note (TBN) this week entitled “CTRM Founded In and Around Business Intelligence”. In this new TBN, we look at the unique design philosophy and architecture underlying Woodland Solutions Phoenix ETRM solution. Having built the product around a data warehouse/data mart core, Woodland’s can offer some unique capabilities in business intelligence and reporting. You can find out more by downloading the report here.

We launched our all new CommodityAlert this week. In addition to articles of interest to the commodity trading and risk management industry, you can also find the latest news, calendar of events and links to current research projects and reports…

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