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Enforcement increasing as surveillance lags behind? Ignorance is bliss (for now…)
Compelling themes emerged from recent gatherings of the EU energy market regulatory compliance community – we briefly examine what these might mean for transaction surveillance for EU energy traders. March was a busy month for EU energy market regulatory compliance...
Another great event at EWorld
Another successful year at EWorld - Europe's premier trade show for the energy sector. I think you'll agree our new branding looks great in print and it definitely got us noticed! We were delighted to showcase CubeWatch, our latest tool for sentiment analysis using...
Storm clouds on the horizon…Why effective and innovative credit risk management is no longer an option
Unbalanced economic growth In the year following the 2008 financial crisis, economic activity declined in half of all countries in the world. Among the economies that experienced a banking crisis in 2007–08, about 85% are still operating at output levels below...
Regulation in the energy and commodities markets – What’s next?
A guest blog from Aviv Handler, Managing Director of ETR Advisory Over recent years the energy and commodities markets have been buffeted by a seemingly endless stream of regulations, which has consumed time and resources. This increasingly regulated environment has...
Why is Twitter the best source of news?
Twitter: 330 million active users and over 40 languages supported. Their leading message when you visit their website is - 'What’s happening in the world and what people are talking about right now.' And it couldn’t be more true - in 2017 it was reported that 74% of...
SaaS vs On-Premise and what that means for everyone involved
The approach to delivering large enterprise vendor software has traditionally been on-premise. In this particular method, the client would use in-house servers and infrastructure within the company network to install and manage the software packages. This would...
Business Intelligence for Risk Management – Part II
Following on from Part I we look at some of the ways that BI can enable firms to evolve their risk management capabilities and in turn realise game changing results. The discipline of risk management covers many areas, from analyzing a trading portfolio, understanding...
Business Intelligence for Risk Management – Part I
Business intelligence (BI) is a general term for the discipline of gathering, storing, analysing, and providing access to data to help enterprise users make better business decisions. In recent years all of the tech titans have entered the race to provide smart BI...
Using performance measurement to drive receivables improvement
Guest blog article provided by Christian Terry, CEO, Insight Performance Improvement. How do you measure cash collection? What reporting do you have in place to help you improve performance? When was the last time you tried to measure things differently? The chances...