COMMODITY EXECUTION
Our commitment is to total client support thorough informed thinking, clear communication & rigorous execution.
Comprehensive GRC Solutions & Risk Management:
Base Metals – LME trading and operations, warehousing and physicals.
Precious Metals – Gold, Silver and PGM trading, vaulting and consignments.
Crude Oil & Refined Products – Global internationally traded crude and refined products including NGLs and Olefins, physical activities (pipelines, railcars and storage), time chartering, refinery financing.
European Power & Gas – UK power and gas trading, European power and gas trading including transmission (IFA and BritNed), transportation, storage and swing
US Power & Gas – Trading, including Heat Rate options, synthetic tolling, wind, transportation and storage.
Carbon, Coal and Freight – European and US emissions markets including primary CERs, ERUs and EUAAs.
Index & Hybrids – Standard and custom indices across all commodity asset classes including derivatives.
GRC Capabilities:
Risk, Regulatory & Transaction Management
VaR, SVaR and capital measures.
Risk frameworks for non-VaR risk limits based on budgets, risk appetite and underlying market liquidity.
Design and development of stress testing to capture primary risk factors (price, volatility) and secondary stresses to identify and quantify risk associated with non-standard factors such as physical risk, correlation etc.
Regulatory interaction including PRA, Federal Reserve, NY State Banking, CFTC, FERC, SEC, FINRA and MAS.
Regulatory environment impacts including MiFID II, Dodd Frank & Volcker.
Technology Development & Process Management
System analysis, design, and implementation.
End-to-end new market roll-out project management.
Commodity Trade Risk Management (CTRM) project management and platform development.
Trader tools and decision support systems development.
Flexible project management methodology (SDLC, SDLC Lite, Agile) based on client requirements.
Robust stakeholder communication throughout project lifetime.