Some recent news releases from the ETRM/CTRM world:
Allegro Allegro has opened a new office in Rotterdam in The Netherlands Allegro kicks off its new Alliance Program by signing up Spanish consulting firm Indra Allegro closes deal with Spanish LNG player Union Fenosa Gas
Triple Point Triple Point closes deal with Vertical UK LLC for Global biofuels management Triple Point closes deal […]

It appears that Triple Point is continuing their acquisition streak and expanding their product reach. Despite numerous “no comments” from various places, all indications are that they will soon announce the acquisition of Rome Corp, the makers of Rome Energy, the leading credit risk management application in the energy space.
Should this rumor be correct, […]

A new poll conducted by the research group Rasmussen Reports tells us that 67% of voters believe that drilling should be allowed off the coasts of California, Florida and other states. 18% disagreed and 15% couldn’t decide. 85% of conservatives and 59% of moderate voters strongly support drilling, while 46% of liberals are in favor […]

OpenLink announced this morning that it had signed Apache Corp., one of North America’s largest independent oil and gas producers.
One of the most interesting notes in the announcement was this…
“Apache, in addition to implementing OpenLink’s Endur for end-to-end management of physical crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquid transactions, will also be working with […]

Coinciding with the Energy Risk event in Houston this week, SunGard announced a couple of new additions to their existing product families.
For ZaiNet, their flagship deal capture and risk management product, they’ve announced the release of the Real Time Dashboard, which the company describes as follows…
The Real-Time Dashboard builds on real-time operational business intelligence (BI) […]

The International Energy Agency just came out with their estimate of the costs to reduce CO2 emissions by 50% by the year 2050. According to the IEA, it going to cost $45 trillion. Wow. How’s that money going to be spent? They say we need to build around 32 new nuclear […]

It’s being reported this afternoon that the Fed chairman, Ben Bernanke, has made a definitive statement about the dollar, saying the he believes the weak dollar is adding to inflationary pressures. This is an unusual statement from the Fed, as the Treasury Dept. is usually the group that speaks of the dollar. So […]

Triple Point announced late yesterday that they have acquired Investment Support Systems Inc. (Innsinc), a treasury management and regulatory compliance solution provider. As described in Triple Point’s press release, Innsinc “develops and markets treasury and risk management software solutions, including products to enable companies engaged in the procurement, processing or marketing of commodities or […]

The Senate Judiciary Committee has been holding hearing and taking dead aim at the executives of the big oil companies. These senators are demanding an explanation as to why gasoline prices are so high. And no, don’t even think about hiding behind some lame explanation of the forces of supply and demand. […]

In looking at Open Link Financial’s (OLF’s) pending IPO, it’s interesting, if not necessarily informative, to look back at the last company that did an IPO in the ETRM space and see what ultimately became of that company - Caminus.
For those that don’t remember Caminus, the company started out as a “strategic consulting” firm based […]