SunGard Consulting Services is presenting a webinar on “Evolving to a Single, Timely & Accurate Source of Commodities Market Data”
If multiple channels of market data, and their reconiliation, are overwhelming your organization, you should check it out. It will be next Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 at 2-3 pm EST.
For more information, click here.

Russia, Iran and Qatar are moving to create an OPEC-like consortium for natural gas. While the Qatar and Russian representatives say the “gas triorka” is not intended to set global prices for natural gas, the Iranian representative to the group, Oil Minister Gholamhossein Nozari, has said, “There is a demand to form this gas […]

Allegro just announced a new enhancement to their product offering, one that moves them ahead of the competition in terms of fully integrating the major electronic exchanges (22 exchanges in total) directly into their system. As they say in their press release…
“This latest enhancement of the ExchangeConnect component provides two-way exchange connectivity (view and […]

UtiliPoint IssueAlertPatrick Reames
Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM) software providers have been enjoying considerable success over the last several years. With a market buoyed by higher commodity prices, high levels of volatility, new regulation and reporting requirements, and new market entrants, software vendors have been making some serious hay. These companies have been […]

A UtiliPoint IssueAlert
Gary M. Vasey, Ph.D., General Manager, Europe andPatrick Reames, Vice President, Trading & Risk Management
UtiliPoint International, Inc. has amassed a variety of research, data and knowledge regarding Trading & Risk Management (TRM) through proprietary research, extensive industry contacts, on-going analysis and our own analyst’s expertise and experience. But what does this all […]

With Hurricane Gustav ripping it up in the Caribbean and projected to take aim at either Louisiana or the northwest Texas coast, market analysts are predicting at least a dime to quarter rise in gasoline prices as the storm is forcing evacuations and shut-in of platforms across a large swath of the Gulf. This […]

I recently had the opportunity to meet with two veterns of the ETRM space, Jason Wells and Kevin Gerold. As those that have been in this industry for a while may know, both of these gentlemen started with Nucleus in that company’s formative years and transitioned to Caminus after the acquisition. Kevin served […]

A UtiliPoint IssueAlertPatrick Reames
Obviously, one of the realities in writing a topical article like those in UtiliPoint’s IssueAlert is that the article represents developments around that topic up until the time the article is submitted by the author. But, as they say, life goes on and new developments emerge. Therefore, I’m taking this […]

As has been anticipated for some time, last night Triple Point announced the acquisition of Rome Corp., the developer of Rome Energy, one of the leading credit risk solutions for energy and commodity trading. According to the press release from TPT, “The acquisition broadens and deepens Triple Point’s product portfolio, enabling it to uniquely […]

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) […]