Video conferencing
All modern offices of these days seem to have the same problem; whenever you want to have a video conference with a number of people, there is never a room available with VC equipment. Google now has some kind of a platform available called hangouts that is accessible from both computers and smartphones. Using your [...]
That other ETRM: Energeya
Energeya offers a full suite for energy and commodity trading floors. This package is used in a number of companies in southern Europe, mainly Italy. One North European company is currently migrating to this package. The product that Energeye offers is based on an open source stack of standard components that deliver the basic functionality. [...]
Excel as trading tool?
Everyone in IT is familiar with a common problem; Excel is heavily used on trading floors, and you can’t always blame the people for doing so. But when it comes to making big decisions, especially on trading desks, the traders might have to re-evaluate their usage of Excel; arstechnica has a nice article describing the [...]
Prisma
Prisma is a platform where energy companies can trade gas capacity at a large amount of interconnection points on European transmission systems.The goal of Prisma is to develop a single European platform for gas network users. PRISMA primary offers the following features to all registered users: Shippers can register for all participating TSOs through one [...]
That other ETRM: Aspect Enterprise
Aspect Enterprise offers an ETRM that is implemented as a SaaS-platform. The platform originated as a product that first only supported oil. Currently metals, coal, emissions, freight and biofuels are supported as well. The solution offers full functionality of the whole trade lifecycle for the mentioned commodities, even including live data & news modules. From [...]
OTC Trade validation and confirmation
After executing an OTC trade, the trade is captured and stored in an ETRM system. A lot of trading floors still have the system in place where traders are required to keep a paper blotter during the day, on which they write down each and every trade that they have done during the day. This [...]
Implementing the logic behind trade enrichment
Now, the age old question of where to add this logic in the trade execution and booking IT landscape. Even the Romans had problems with it. enrich the trade data in the middle ware enrich the trade data in the trade execution system before sending use the trade capture interface adapter on the receiving ETRM [...]
Griffin is live
http://www.griffinmarkets.com/griffin-announce-launch-on-tuesday-26th-march - Let’s see how liquid the market is going to be. Gas will be interesting.
WebICE on Mac OS X 10.8
Make sure that the latest version of the Java runtime environment is running on your machine. http://www.java.com/en/download/mac_download.jsp is the place where you can get it. Install this version. If the default .jnlp association is not set to java, follow the guide on http://www.lancope.com/blog/resetting-jnlp-associations-to-java-web-startapp-in-osx/ to make sure that the jre is used by the browser to [...]
Aggregation of pricefeeds
A lot of tradefloors have trayport clients implemented, and it is possible to connect to all the OTC brokers. On top of that there are venues that are exchanges, but offer the possiblity to connect the trayport server to it directly. Examples are APX and the EEX. What is interesting is to see if there are [...]
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