The CTRM Blog

A new white paper is available from the Reports and Articles page titled “Preparing for the New Age of Commodities and Derivatives Regulation in Energy Markets. It may be downloaded free of charge.

Rapid changes in market fundamentals created unprecedented price increases across the energy commodity complex with rapid price escalation taking hold in early 2007 and increasing unabated until the third week of July 2008. At that time, the markets began a free fall initiated by the emerging credit crisis that spread from the US to Europe, spawning a global recession that has significantly reduced industrial throughput and demand for all commodities. The full effect of this market collapse (in which bellwether crude prices declined more than 75%) is still emerging. Clearly however, the impacts that have been seen to date are far reaching and lasting, and have resulted in increased public and regulatory scrutiny into markets that had previously been somewhat “dark” for many.

CommodityPoint has now started seeking participants for our Non-Energy CTRM vendor perception study survey. We are looking for anyone who uses CTRM software for metals, agricultural products, raw materials – in fact anything EXCEPT energy commodities. The survey is open to all end users and independent consultants as we seek your views. Participants will receive a full copy of the final report when issued. If you might like to participate, please visit and complete our survey questions here. Please Note: Vendor responses are not required and will be eliminated prior to analysis of the results.

We have a full research calendar for 2010 and we are about to commence the first two research studies for 2010. These two studies are the Non-Energy Vendor Perception Study and the Non-traditional Delivery Models for CTRM – SaaS and Hosted Solutions Study.

Non-traditional Delivery Models for CTRM – SaaS and Hosted Solutions Study

Recent CommodityPoint research and vendor and end user briefings suggests that alternative delivery models for CTRM seem to be catching on as a trend in the industry – specifically SaaS and hosted models. This study will be designed to look into these trends and establish some benchmark data around SaaS, hosted and other deliver models including;