The CTRM Blog

We’re launching the premiere of our “Conversations with Leaders in CTRM Technology” series today, visiting with our first guest, Trip Ray, SunGard Energy and Commodities‘ senior vice president and managing director for the Americas.  In this first episode of the series, presented in two parts, Trip discusses recent developments at SunGard Energy and Commodities and looks forward to what the future may hold for the commodity trading industry and the technologies that serve it.

Note: Please excuse the somewhat variable audio as we are still ironing some technical bugs in our production process.

Part 1

Part 2

As markets take stock of the Greek bail out plan and weigh the chance that other European Euro Zone nations such as Portugal and Spain, amongst others, may also require bail outs as their credit ratings plummet, the Euro is taking a battering and has slipped below 1.30USD in New York today. The US Dollar, which hasn’t looked such a good investment either in recent months, is now looking like a better bet than the Euro. In reality, I see both currencies as somewhat weak but with the Euro currently looking extremely vulnerable. As the Euro slides, what might the impact be for commodities?