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Carlos Arcila Barrera, CFA, CAIA, SCR
Founder & Chief Investment Officer, Sigma Advanced Capital Management
Adjunct Professor University of Notre Dame (USA) and Research Associate, Center for
Sustainable Finance of the Universidad de los Andes (Colombia)
Mr. Carlos Arcila has extensive experience in US and Colombian capital markets, specializing in investment portfolio management, risk management, and financial derivative trading, as well as a research and professional career in energy and carbon markets.
He is the founder and Chief Investment Officer of Sigma Advanced Capital Management,a hedge fund based in the United States that specializes in carbon and commodity markets. Mr. Arcila and Sigma Advanced Capital Management received the prestigious Best ESG Hedge Fund and Best Macro Commodity Hedge Fund awards in the United States from HFM and HedgeWeek, becoming the first Colombian and Colombian-founded hedge fund to achieve this distinction. Prior to establishing Sigma Advanced, Mr. Arcila was an Energy Risk Associate at Optima Consultores, a renowned Latin American energy and power consulting firm. In this position, he was responsible for establishing and managing the electricity risk program, trading power futures, and developing hedging strategies for Latin American companies. In addition, he has held various positions such as Investment Analyst, Trader, and Portfolio Manager for various national and international institution.
Mr. Arcila is an Adjunct Professor at both the University of Notre Dame (USA) and the Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia), where he teaches applied derivatives. Additionally, he serves as a Research Associate at the Universidad de Los Andes’ Center of Sustainable Finance, conducting research on sustainable finance, commodities, and carbon markets. In 2018 Mr. Arcila was nominated for the Best Professor in Colombia in 2018 by Portfolio. He has lectured, participated in panels, and presented as a guest speaker at various institutions, including the International Finance Corporation (IFC), HFM Within Intelligence, Ecuador’s San Francisco de Quito University (USFQ), and has published articles in Environmental Finance, CFA, and CAIA.
Carlos holds a Master of Science in Finance (Magna cum Laude) from the University of Notre Dame in the United States, and is a certified Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA), and GARP Sustainability and Climate Change Risk (SCR). Carlos is currently a Master of Studies in Sustainability Leadership candidate at the University of Cambridge in the UK. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Business Administration from the Universidad de Los Andes, with minors in Government.
As Head of Financial Innovation, Chris is launching oneshot.earth’s Commodity Carbon Credit and creating the market ecosystem for it to thrive. Chris has been involved in markets for over 15 years. At Gelber Group, he created and traded high-volume algorithmic trading programs in the US Treasury and commodity derivative markets. Chris holds an MBA from MIT Sloan, where he was a Sloan Fellow. At Sloan, he focused on the intersection of sustainability, markets, and entrepreneurship.
ONESHOT.EARTH
SPONSOR
oneshot.earth blended carbon credit is a different type of carbon credit. Our Commodity Carbon Credit (CCC) is a diversified, fungible, high-quality offset backed by a transparent pool of carbon offsets. Our CCC gives offsetting corporations a greater breadth of impact and lower individual project risk. The CCC gives investors and traders exposure to a broad group of credits. The carbon market is still a diverse and fractured space. oneshot.earth meets the market where it is today by recognizing the differences in value for each project while providing fungibility and liquidity through our product. The more financial capital in the system, the more emissions are reduced or removed today.
TRIARC SOLUTIONS
SPONSOR
For more than a decade, Triarc Solutions has helped its customers conduct industry leading RightAngle implementations, upgrades, managed support, and process improvements in the sectors of Retail Fuel, Refined Products, Crude & Lease, NGLs, Agriculture and Metals. With customers ranging from the largest RightAngle client to the smallest, Triarc’s mission is to help customers love RightAngle again. As the only consulting and managed support services organization solely focused on RightAngle, Triarc’s offerings assist customers on all versions of RightAngle. Triarc exists to improve the lives of everyone in the RightAngle community through a commitment to continued innovation, business-specific expertise, and building relationships to better serve the industry for years to come.
CLEARDOX
SPONSOR
Digital commodity solutions by commodities experts
ClearDox® allows commodity-intensive businesses to secure a competitive advantage by digitizing and automating critical document-intensive processes. ClearDox provides the only intelligent automation platform created for commodity companies by commodity experts. By unlocking data across their business interactions embedded in hundreds of types of documents, our clients improve operational efficiencies and resiliency, while making smarter decisions.
ClearDox is unique in the space by offering turnkey solutions across agriculture, metals, renewables, oil, and gas, covering vital processes including trade confirmations and inventory/transportation management, along with invoice and letter of credit processing. At the core is a patented multi-faceted AI approach that intelligently extracts the appropriate data for processing and automates the reconciliation process.
Stop by our booth to learn more or go to https://www.cleardox.com
LLOYD’S LIST INTELLIGENCE
SPONSOR
Lloyd’s List Intelligence is the industry expert delivering actionable maritime insight, data, and analytics trusted by 60,000 professionals across the globe to drive commercial advantage, evaluate risk, and support the efficient and lawful movement of seaborne trade. Our data is collected only from the most reputable partners and accurate sources, many of which are exclusive to us and our customers. Our advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, and industry expertise transform our unparalleled data into powerful insight delivered through data and analytics platforms and services, news and commentary, and publications that help professionals in maritime operations, risk, and compliance stay well informed.
K3 by BROADPEAK
SPONSOR
K3 by BroadPeak is the global leader in commodities data integration. Used by over 70 major trading firms, K3 is a low code integration platform that provides commodity firms with unparalleled data command, without absorbing large IT resources.
BROWN BROTHERS HARRIMAN
SPONSOR
BBH is a privately held financial institution that has been a thought leader and solutions provider for over 200 years. The firm serves individuals, families, businesses and institutions in its three business lines: Private Banking, Investment Management, and Investor Services. BBH’s culture of accountability fosters deep and lasting relationships built on commitment, adaptability and trust. The company is independent, selective, and specialized by design.
BBH operates its global business out of seventeen offices located in New York, Boston, Beijing, Charlotte, Chicago, Dublin, Grand Cayman, Hong Kong, Jersey City, Kraków, London, Luxembourg, Nashville, Philadelphia, Tokyo, Wilmington and Zürich.
NASDAQ
SPONSOR
With over 20 years of proven experience providing mission-critical technology in some of the most demanding and highly-regulated markets, Nasdaq is the world’s largest capital markets infrastructure technology provider, with its technology powering 1 in 10 of the world’s securities transactions globally.
Nasdaq has 10+ years of experience in regulatory and risk management technology, making the Nasdaq Risk Platform a proven solution enabling firms to monitor and manage their aggregate risk exposure across markets, asset classes, regions, and accounts in real-time through flexible pre-, at-, and post-trade controls.
The solution operates off a centralized hub that provides a single point of awareness and control across all risk silos and various systems monitored by the Nasdaq Risk Platform. Nasdaq Risk Platform provides firms with tools that can provide actionable intelligence through this holistic layer of control across trading activity.
Nasdaq Risk Platform can also help reduce operational risk across the enterprise. Firms can use the Nasdaq Risk Platform to set global limits across all of their systems to proactively manage aggregate exposure, instead of trying to address the problem through disparate or retroactive measures. Nasdaq Risk Platform process over 130 data handlers daily. The sophisticated solution is able to standardize data, enabling firms to gain additional business insight, better manage regulatory compliance and leverage additional business applications.
GEN10
CARBON MARKETS PARTNER
Gen10 focus on making the day-to-day tasks of commodity and carbon trading faster and simpler through automation and collaboration. Our technology empowers our clients, completing the feedback loop between trading and finance to support smarter, safer trading decisions.
The cloud-first technology can be accessed on any device, with systems providing lifecycle carbon credit management as well as complete commodity management. And our platforms combine all the features you expect of a CTRM with enhanced operational risk controls and greater support for logistics and operations to create end-to-end commodity management.
The flexible systems use powerful automated workflows that can be customised for your organisation’s processes and integrated with existing technologies such as finance and ERP systems for real-time data-sharing. This is how we can provide commodity-specific support to over 100 commodities; across cocoa, cotton, metals & concentrates, petrochemicals, and more – in one cloud platform.
Gen10 believes in making innovative, high value and flexible commodity management solutions. The UK-based development and support teams work in collaboration with clients to build up a real understanding of the challenges they face; delivering technology that drives value from their massive data flows and transforms their operations.
Thomas Damsgaard is head of BIMCO in the Americas, where his responsibilities encompass member interest and industry engagement for the Americas. Thomas started an exciting shipping career in 1990 and has earned his stripes in a succession of increasingly challenging roles within senior management and leadership for maritime market leaders. He has lead several maritime start-ups and turnarounds and acted as an external advisor on leadership, strategy and optimization to global maritime, logistics and PE organizations. He has served on professional boards within shipping and logistics.
An active member of the Houston community, he fills leading roles including for the Houston Maritime Arbitrators Association, Advisory Board at University of Houston; he founded the Danish American Chamber of Commerce and a non-for profit maritime scholarship fundraiser. Thomas holds an MBA in Shipping & Logistics (Blue MBA) from Copenhagen Business School.
BIMCO
ASSOCIATION PARTNER
BIMCO, the practical voice of shipping, is the world’s largest international shipping association, with around 2,000 members in more than 130 countries, representing over 60% of the world’s tonnage. Our global membership includes shipowners, operators, managers, brokers, and agents. BIMCO is a non-profit organisation.
CASSINI
EXHIBITOR
Founded in 2014, Cassini Systems offers an award-winning derivatives margin analytical platform that provides the industry’s only front-to-back margin and cost analysis across the entire lifecycle of a trade. Cassini users can calculate any margin on any cleared or uncleared derivatives asset; analyze drivers and movement in margin exposure; reduce Initial Margin levels; and maximize margin efficiency with the firms’ industry-leading, advanced algorithms.
Cassini services have a proven track record of enhancing portfolio returns at every point in the daily business cycle, empowering traders and portfolio managers to analyze instantly in the pre-trade stage the all-in, lifetime cost of a transaction. Top-tier hedge funds, asset managers, and global banks rely on Cassini for powerful, flexible, automated tools to manage their portfolios of over-the-counter and exchange-traded derivatives products. Cassini was named Best UMR Service of the Year in the Risk Markets Technology Awards 2022 and the Derivatives Technology Provider of the Year by the 2022 GlobalCapital Derivatives Awards.
MOONLIGHT IQ
PR PARTNER
Moonlight IQ is a highly specialised, global B2B strategic PR and marketing agency delivering results for our clients in the global financial and technology sectors. For over 20 years we’ve played a key role in clients’ growth and dominance of their market sectors, and in becoming stand-out award-winners. Moonlight IQ provides proven messaging, branding, and communication strategies, ensuring that your messages are clearly heard in the market. Our strategy is to establish our clients as market leaders in the industry and to highlight the unique values each brand brings to the market.
We use our expertise in the industry and wide network of relationships to get businesses in front of leading finance and technology publications as well as key industry players, your prospects, and clients.
S&P GLOBAL
SPONSOR
At S&P Global Commodity Insights, our complete view of global energy and commodities markets enables our customers to make decisions with conviction and create long-term, sustainable value. We provide respected benchmarks, perspectives and solutions for commodity and energy markets, helping customers zoom in on the near term and zoom out for the big picture. By enabling decisions that create sustainable value, we help accelerate progress in the world.
S&P Global Commodity Insights is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). For more than 100 years, we’ve been a trusted connector that brings together thought leaders, market participants, governments, and regulators to co-create solutions that lead to progress. Vital to navigating Energy Transition, S&P Global Commodity Insights’ coverage includes oil and gas, power, chemicals, metals, agriculture, and shipping.
The markets are constantly changing, but our real-time news, market reports, analysis, price assessments, and fundamental data always provide a valuable reference point. Each day we showcase a selection of our news, research, analysis, and video insight on the Market Insights section of our website. For more information, please visit Latest Oil, Energy & Metals News, Market Data and Analysis | S&P Global Commodity Insights (spglobal.com)
QUOR GROUP
EXHIBITOR
In the Commodity Trading and Management business, expertise emerges as the most valuable resource. A deep understanding of the commodity trade lifecycle is what makes Quor Group, the leading Commodity Trading, and Commodity Management solutions provider.
MARPRO MARITIME PROFESSIONALS
MEDIA PARTNER
Founded in 2013 by Jakob le Fevre, MARPRO is a recruitment company in the shipping and maritime industry worldwide. MARPRO focuses 100% on maritime, offshore, commercial, and technical profiles.
MARPRO’s strength lies on their strong channels and their recruiters’ maritime background and network. For instance Jakob le Fevre has worked strategically with his network since 2006, resulting in more than 27,600 direct contacts on LinkedIn.
MARPRO operates the Maritime Professionals, a source of information for the global maritime community regarding relevant news, jobs, events, and companies. It is our job to empower and give a voice to shipping and maritime companies, maritime organizations, and individual maritime professionals.
The strong channels consist of:
OPENGAMMA
SPONSOR
OpenGamma is a derivatives analytics firm with expertise in over-the-counter and exchange-traded derivatives margin methodologies, backed by CME, JSCC, Accel and Dawn. They are trusted by the world’s large and most sophisticated global banks, trading firms and fund managers, with thousands of users depending on its analytics.
SPONSOR
We are RadarRadar (formerly Tradesparent). Experts in the commodity trade and processing industry. Operating in the most fundamental industries of the world, food, energy and other commodities. Since 2010, we deliver high profile projects for the world’s leading commodity producers, traders, and processors. We work with our clients to configure bespoke and extendable data solutions, enabling their successful digital transformation.
In today’s fast-paced information age, with insecurities about climate change, political developments, and increasingly volatile markets, it becomes more and more challenging to have access to the right knowledge in- and outside the company. This increases risks in the daily financial and physical operations, and challenges adequate and controlled decision-making.
RadarRadar provides your business with the knowledge it needs to succeed. As technology company we continuously aim to support our clients with strong data management and advanced risk tools. It is our mission to enable companies to unlock the full potential of their data to improve risk and margin management and boost performance.
RadarRadar. World leader in real time food & energy knowledge.
GLOBAL MARITIME HUB
MEDIA PARTNER
Global Maritime Hub is an online platform for sharing information and analysis on trade, shipping, ports and the maritime business.
CARBONCHAIN
SPONSOR
CarbonChain enables data-driven climate action in the world’s commodity supply chains. Its carbon accounting platform automatically tracks greenhouse gas emissions for commodity traders, freight firms, manufacturers and financial institutions, across energy, metals, minerals and agriculture.
Using AI and asset-level emissions tracking, CarbonChain unlocks unrivaled insight into carbon-related risks and opportunities in near real-time. This enables companies and financial institutions to accurately report emissions, decarbonize and manage their net-zero transition.
CarbonChain is a CDP accredited solutions provider, a TCFD supporter, and ResponsibleSteel member. Its methodology is independently verified and validated by SGS and Bureau Veritas, and aligned with the GHG Protocol.
ION COMMODITIES
PARTNER
ION Commodities: The world’s largest portfolio of energy and commodities trading and risk management solutions.
ION Commodities accelerates your success with a data-driven approach and powerful, award-winning energy and commodities (ETRM and CTRM) trading and risk management solutions. Regardless of your industry, our solutions put you in complete control of energy and commodities value chains, from production and processing through to distribution. We provide full support and transparency for procurement, supply and trading, with continuous risk controls throughout the trade lifecycle. That’s why many of the world’s biggest and best-known companies partner with us to sharpen decision-making and boost productivity.
THE BROKER CLUB
ASSOCIATION PARTNER
The Broker Club is an active community for brokers operating within Financial/Capital Markets. We focus on providing insight, knowledge and education around markets regulation (e.g. SMCR, MAR, MiFID, ICARA, IFPR, Consumer Duty, Operational Resilience etc.), standards of best practice (GRC, ESG etc.), compliance, conduct and culture – as well as technology and markets innovation – supports member firms, and the wider industry. Our unique and extensive network of leading industry advisors, specialist consultants, legal firms and technology providers give members unrivalled access to timely and broad and deep market knowledge, helping Broker Club members to:
WOMEN IN FINANCE
ASSOCIATION PARTNER
100 Women in Finance strengthens the global finance industry by empowering women to achieve their professional potential at each career stage. Its members inspire, equip and advocate for a new generation of industry leadership, in which women and men serve as investment professionals and executives, equal in achievement and impact. Through Education, Peer Engagement and Impact, the organization furthers the progress of women who have chosen finance as a career, and enables their positive influence over pre-career young women
GLOBAL LNG HUB
LNG MEDIA PARTNER
Global LNG Hub is an online platform for sharing analysis and information on Global and regional LNG markets. Our weekly newsletter with new content goes out each Wednesday.
KWA Analytics
SPONSOR
KWA Analytics is a Global Advisory firm specializing in delivering Trading & Risk Management business and technology solutions for clients in the Energy, Commodity, Treasury and Capital Markets.
We bring together, under one roof, the industry’s leading experts with the complete TRM and related skillsets providing unrivaled business and technical consulting services. We understand your needs and the business and technical services necessary to plan, design, develop, implement, and support your organization.
Since our founding KWA Analytics has an established set of credentials as a trusted advisor and partner. We are pleased to have been recognized again as the #1 consultancy in the Energy Risk 2022 Technology Advisory Awards.
For further information about KWA and ways we can work with you, please visit us at kwa-analytics.com
MORNINGSTAR
EXHIBITOR
Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The Company offers an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers and owners, retirement plan providers and sponsors, and institutional investors in the debt and private capital markets. Morningstar provides data and research insights on a wide range of investment offerings, including managed investment products, publicly listed companies, private capital markets, debt securities, and real-time global market data.
Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries, with approximately $265.0 billion in assets under advisement and management as of March 31, 2022. The Company has operations in 29 countries. For more information, visit www.morningstar.com/company.
CapSpire
LEAD DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION PARTNER
ERENEWABLE
EDUCATION PARTNER
At eRENEWABLE our comprehensive approach combines energy efficiency and price transparency while reducing your RFP time by more than 50 percent to help you discover real time market value while getting the best price and terms for your PPA/VPPA.
With our proprietary auction platform, it allows you to bring buyers or sellers to an online marketplace competing for your business while also providing last-look technology that ensures you get the best market price possible.
In addition to facilitating PPA’s and VPPA’s through our network of clean energy professionals, we can also reduce your carbon footprint utilizing Responsibly Sourced Gas via our partnership with a leading global energy provider – and our RSG contains 90% less methane on average than the standard U.S. natural gas.
Looking for Green Energy Credits? Whether you utilize verified RSG certificates or unbundled RECs, your path to NetZero and Decarbonization is one step closer with eRENEWABLE.
If it’s reliable off-grid Energy that you need, we’ll keep you powered-up onsite with our solar array, battery storage, and budget-conscious Microgrid solutions.
Please visit us at www.erenewable.com today or call 1-866-ERENEW-1 to learn more.
As one of the premier podcasts in the Renewable Energy sector, The Green Insider, powered by eRENEWABLE is telling the story of The Energy Transition with the best minds, leaders, and disruptors in the industry. With 120+ episodes since it launched in August 2020, The Green Insider covers the latest in hydrogen, battery storage, wind, solar and grid resiliency. In addition to being the official podcast of several conference networking events and forging partnerships with industry leading trade organizations like NAEMA and a collaboration with the University of Houston, The Green Insider has established itself as appointment podcast listening.
COMMODITY CLUB SWITZERLAND
ASSOCIATION PARTNER
The Commodity Club Switzerland provides a platform for business professionals and leaders in the commodity business. The initiative aims to drive further the transition to a responsible resource sector and brings together commodity professionals in Switzerland.
JP Morgan Center for Commodities
EDUCATION PARTNER
The J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities at the University of Colorado Denver Business School is the first center of its kind focused on a broad range of commodities, including agriculture, energy and mining. Established in 2012, this innovative center provides educational programs and research in commodities markets, regulation, trading, financial fundamentals, investing, risk management and ethics. Online courses are available for a graduate-level. Commodity Certificate and we also offer online professional education courses in commodity trading, data analysis, ESG, sustainability and more.
OXFORD BUSINESS GROUP
RESEARCH PARTNER
Oxford Business Group (OBG) is a global research and advisory company with a presence in over 30 countries, spanning Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas. It is recognised internationally as a distinctive and respected provider of on-the-ground intelligence on world’s fastest-growing markets, termed The Yellow Slice, in reference to OBG’s corporate colour.
Through its range of products – Economic News and Views; OBG CEO Surveys; OBG Events and Conferences; Global Platform, which hosts exclusive video interviews; and The Report publications – as well as its Advisory division, OBG offers comprehensive and accurate analysis of macroeconomic and sector-level developments for sound investment opportunities and business decisions.
OBG provides business intelligence to its subscribers through multiple platforms, including its direct 6 million verified subscribers, Dow Jones Factiva subscribers, the Bloomberg Professional Services subscribers, Refinitiv’s (previously Thomson Reuters) Eikon subscribers, and more.
For more information, please contact:
Marc-André de Blois
Director of PR and Video Content, Oxford Business Group
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ITFA
ASSOCIATION PARTNER
The International Trade and Forfaiting Association (ITFA) is the worldwide trade association for companies, financial institutions and intermediaries engaged in trade and the origination, structuring, risk mitigation and distribution of trade debt. ITFA also represents the wider trade finance syndication and secondary market for trade assets. ITFA prides itself in being the voice of the secondary market for trade finance, whilst also focusing on matters that are relevant to the whole trade finance spectrum.
ITFA presently has close to 300 members, located in over 50 different countries. These are classified under a variety of business sectors, with the most predominant being the banking industry. Others include forfaiting, insurance underwriters, law firms, fintechs as well as other institutions having a business interest in the areas of Trade Finance and Forfaiting.
To find out more about ITFA, please visit www.itfa.org or send an email on [email protected]
FINANCIAL IT
MEDIA PARTNER
Financial IT is a digital platform for multimedia and editorial content, rankings and overviews of major industry events. Financial IT magazine is published throughout the year in digital form. Financial IT magazine is available in print form at major trade events through our media partnerships.
We believe that our competitive edge comes from our established relationships with financial IT companies and institutions, the breadth of the solutions described and the quality of content. Financial IT provides a detailed map of the everchanging space where the IT provider sector meets the broadly defined financial services sector.
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN IN MINING
ASSOCIATION PARTNER
We operate with the support of sponsors and partners, and rely on a team of volunteers without whom we could not achieve our goals; Our volunteers and directors are based all over the world and bring different perspectives to the organisation.
COMMODITY CONVERSATIONS
MEDIA PARTNER
Jonathan Kingsman is a writer and blogger on the agricultural commodity sector. After nearly 40 years in the business, he founded commodityconversations.com as a platform where agricultural commodity professionals can join in the conversation.
TRADE FINANCE GLOBAL
MEDIA PARTNER
Trade Finance Global (TFG) is the leading trade finance platform. We assist companies to access trade and receivables finance facilities through our relationships with 270+ banks, funds and alternative finance houses.
TFG’s award winning educational resources serve an audience of 160k+ monthly readers (6.2m+ impressions) in print & digital formats across 187 countries, covering insights, guides, research, magazines, podcasts, tradecasts (webinars) and video.
GLOBAL RISK COMMUNITY
MEDIA PARTNER
The Global Risk Community is a thriving community of risk managers and associated service providers. Our purpose is to foster business, networking and educational explorations among members. Our goal is to be the worlds’ premier Risk forum and contribute to a better understanding of the complex world of risk.
CTRM CENTER
GOLD MEDIA PARTNER
CTRMCenter™ is your source for everything ‘CTRM’. This online portal, managed by leading CTRM analysts – Commodity Technology Advisory LLC (ComTech), features the latest news, opinions, information, and insights on commodity markets technologies delivered by some of the industry’s leading experts and thought leaders. The site is visited by more than 1500 unique visitors per week. CTRMCenter also includes free access to all of ComTech’s research in the form of reports, white papers, interviews, videos, podcasts, blogs, and newsletters.
GAFTA
ASSOCIATION PARTNER
Gafta is the international trade association representing over 1900 member companies in 100 countries who trade in agricultural commodities, spices and general produce. Gafta is headquartered in London and has offices in Geneva, Kiev, Beijing and Singapore. More than 90% of Gafta’s membership is outside the UK. With origins dating back to 1878, Gafta provides a range of important services that facilitate the movement of bulk commodities and other produce around the world.
It is estimated that around 80% of all grain traded internationally is shipped on Gafta standard forms of contract and Gafta’s arbitration service, based on English law, is highly respected around the world. Gafta also runs training and education courses, manages Approved Registers for technical trade services and provides trade policy information, and events and networking opportunities for members.
Gafta promotes free trade in agricultural commodities and works with international governments to promote the reduction of tariffs and the removal of non-tariff barriers to trade, as well as a science and evidence-based approach to international trade policy and regulatory decision making.
ANEC
ASSOCIATION PARTNER
ANEC’s mission is to develop the best scenario for the export and commercialization of soy, corn and delivery. The association conducts research on the sector in the national and international market, by meeting the needs of members, always with ethics, transparency and commitment.
In order to promote the development of activities related to grains and cereals, as well as defend the interests of its associates before private and public authorities, ANEC – Associação Nacional dos Exportadores de Cereais began its history on June 22, 1965.
Today, with half a century of experience, we have 50 associated companies. Among them are those qualified for being the largest and the best in Brazil and the world.
The high capacity of the management team, made up of representatives from effective associate companies, coupled with the market positioning of companies, provides greater representation of the Association with the Government.
VERIDAPT
SPONSOR
VERIDAPT is an award-winning IoT and fintech company that delivers a digital verification platform providing world leading, real-time monitoring of bulk commodity supply chains to mitigate theft and fraud.
VERIDAPT is trusted to monitor and control billions in commodities around the world and helps companies meet their ESG goals by measuring carbon emissions.
We provide certainty through real-time data, and our accurate reporting allows our customers to know their total emissions and offset this as part of offering net-zero product.
Our solutions allow stakeholders across supply chains in banking, mining and industry to deal with certainty. Backed by Macquarie Group, VERIDAPT’s mining customers include BHP, Rio Tinto, Yancoal, Glencore and Vale.
Our products include, AdaptSCF, a platform solution designed to mitigate operational risk, by providing;
ENUIT
GOLD SPONSOR
Enuit provides leading enterprise risk management solutions for energy and commodities trading companies worldwide.
We give our customers complete visibility, insights, control and management over their business operations helping them to have peace of mind to make quick and informed decisions that affect the bottom line.
Enuit was founded in 2008 with a single goal in mind: To bring to market affordable, functional trade management software. The core solution Entrade is all of this and more. And, it really works. It can help your company track its transactions through the entire deal life cycle: From done deal through a sent bill.
MOLECULE SOFTWARE
LEAD ETRM/CTRM PARTNER
Molecule is the world’s most modern ETRM/CTRM. The software is designed for electricity, natural gas, crude, liquids, metals, ags, softs, crypto, and FX options/futures. Molecule captures over 50,000 physical and financial products, across 50 commodities.
Molecule uses the latest technology to make the risk system powerful—but also light, fast, and easy-to-use – a first in the industry. As a result, Molecule lets risk and operations managers at trading companies “go home earlier,” by automating routine tasks and complex calculations. It is next-generation position, P&L, near-time VaR, and risk analytics software for any company that trades commodities. Molecule also offers specialized add-ons for physical power and enterprise cryptocurrency trading.
Using our cloud-native product, customers get more data security and reliability while enjoying a SaaS pricing model and regular product upgrades with no interruption to service. Implementations can be completed in 90 days, and proactive support is provided by the team that does implementations – so that we can alert your team of problems, before you find them.
Based in Houston, Texas, the Molecule team serves IPPs, hedge funds, energy marketers and advisors, and Fortune 100 companies in North America and worldwide.
CubeLogic
EXHIBITOR
VoxSmart
SPONSOR
VoxSmart are a global leader in voice and eCommunications surveillance for financial services. Our portfolio of communication capture, speech recognition and surveillance products address many risk management requirements such as, employee and operational supervision, senior management oversight and automated trade reconstruction. Customers include commodity brokers, sell-side and buy-side firms, insurance companies and cryptocurrency exchanges, among other regulated institutions. Our vision is to help firms streamline their surveillance assets, answering key challenges around interoperability and data analysis.
