Handbook for Risk Requirements & More… Over the last few weeks, we’ve released a new Whitepaper, initiated a “Knowledge Series” of Articles on Commodity Risk Management. Both have received pretty good responses so far. A lot of people have written to us appreciating the publications on Commodity Risk Management, and buoyed by this response we’ve […]

A New Approach to Optimize Hedging We recently released a Whitepaper with a New Approach to Optimize Hedging Costs. While this framework can be applied to any industry, we’ve demonstrated its utility specifically for Oil Refining Companies. The results from the framework are encouraging to an extent that it seems well worth exploring further – […]

Corporate Darwinism for Commodity Trading Firms With banks exiting commodity trading, Commodity Trading Firms are at the cusp of a fundamental business shift. Risks are very likely to shoot up, leaving Commodity Trading firms no choice but to evolve and adjust to these shifts. Over the past decade, Physical Commodity trading business has been besieged with […]

Review: Report on Economics of Commodity Trading Firms The recent release of Report on Economics of Commodity Trading Firms is a bold step from a well-respected Commodity Trading Firm (CTF) – Trafigura, in giving an insight and “demystifying” the secretive commodity trading industry. And it is indeed a very impressive read. According to Reuters, “The […]

Top 5 issues with Commodity Risk Systems This post is part of our unorganized research and survey which we have done across multiple industries and geographies, to find out the top 5 issues with Commodity Risk Systems that are being faced by the trading companies. While many companies are likely to have one of these […]