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Notes from the desk,
and the data beneath it.
Practical insights on commodity trading, risk, operations and AI.
AI
Industry Report Roundup: What ComTech Advisory Says About AI in CTRM
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Commodity Trading
Same Problem, New Room: Gen10 Heads to the Inaugural Energy Trading Week Middle East
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AI
Chat-driven CTRM is here: Gen10 launches NaNi and Conductor.AI
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CTRM
Why Choose a Cloud CTRM?
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AI
Richard Williamson on the AI Test Every Trading Firm Should Be Running
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CTRM
Commodity Management: From the trade desk to the supply chain
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AI
98% See AI Value. Only 15% Feel Ahead. What's Going On?
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CTRM
Shape the CTRM research the industry can trust
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CTRM
Automation in Commodity Trading: A Practical Guide to Unlocking its Benefits
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AI
Why the Best AI Conversations at CTW Americas Won't Be on the Stage
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AI
CTW Europe Insights: are only 15% ahead in AI?
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Commodity Trading
When Sustainability Reporting Solves Operational Risk
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AI
Get More from CTW Europe: Pre-Book a CommOS Demo
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CTRM
Industry Report's Hidden Message: Fix Your Operational Risk Before the Next Market Shock
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What's on the Agenda at CTW Europe for Metals Traders?
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AI
AI Guardrails: Helping Commodity Traders Drive Value
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CTW Europe 2026: AI Takes Centre Stage in Commodity Trading
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AI
The Art of AI in Commodity Trading: Key Takeaways from Commodity Trading Week APAC
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Agriculture & Softs
Why Green Coffee Traders Need a Smarter Operating System
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Agriculture & Softs
The case for integrated coffee commodity management
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Gen10 News
Gen10 Announces Launch of New Silverthread Foundation
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Agriculture & Softs
Coffee traders: do disconnected CTRM systems cost more than you think?
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CTRM
Complex business, simple software?
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CTRM
Peppol Connectivity Without the Complexity
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CTRM
CTRM for Metals – What is it and why is it needed?
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Commodity Trading
Join us at Commodity Trading Week APAC
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Commodity Trading
Returning to the Commodity Trading Hub: From Students to Practitioners
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Gen10 News
Looking for a New Year’s Resolution?
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Commodity Trading
AI and intelligence for commodity trading desks
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CTRM
Metals and the energy transition – can your CTRM handle it?
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Gen10 News
The Commodity Trading Hub: a graduate’s perspective
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Data
Commodity trading’s data challenge isn’t what you might expect
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Agriculture & Softs
Dubai 2025: The Future of Cotton
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Commodity Trading
An autumn of events – taking the pulse of commodities digitalisation
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CTRM
Join Gen10 at Digitalisation in Commodities Online 2025
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Concentrates
It’s LME Week!
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Agriculture & Softs
Coffee merchants: does your supply chain leave you exposed?
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Commodity Trading
Beyond the Spreadsheet: Real-Time Risk Management for Commodity Traders
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CTRM
Integrate your supply chain to mitigate tariff risks
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CTRM
Pricing Concentrates & Ores Requires a Flexible Pricing Engine
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CTRM
A multi-commodity CTRM – why does it matter?
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Agriculture & Softs
Cotton trading – managing mass balance and physical Chain of Custody certification
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CTRM
Building Geopolitical Risk Resilience with CommOS
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CTRM
How a Good CTRM Enhances Trading Decisions and Drives Profitability
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CTRM
Building agility by building an ecosystem
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Agriculture & Softs
EUDR in Practice: Industry Reactions, Risks and Lessons Learned from the Delay
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CTRM
Developing Digital Roadmaps for the Next 12 Months and Beyond
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CTRM
Simplifying complexity in metals trading
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Gen10 News
Gen10 at Commodity Trading Week Americas 2025: Accelerating Digital Transformation in Commodity Trading
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Uncategorized
Gen10 at Commodity Trading Week Europe 2025: Driving Digital Transformation in Commodity Trading
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Gen10 News
Gen10 at Commodity Trading Week APAC 2025 - Shaping the Future of Commodity Trading
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Multimedia
What is Commodity Risk Management Today? (Webinar)
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CTRM
Gen10 at Commodity Trading Week APAC: Advancing Commodity Trading Through Technology and Innovation
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CTRM
Sustainability & Compliance in Commodity Trading: How to Prepare for the Future
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CTRM
How AI and Modern CTRM Systems are Transforming Commodity Risk Management
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CTRM
What Does Commodity Risk Management Mean Today: Breaking Silos, Embracing Technology & Managing Black Swan Events
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CTRM
The Importance of Effective Physical Contract Management in Commodity Trading
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CTRM
Standardising Flexibility: Gen10 is Truly Multi-Commodity
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Commodity Trading
Whitepaper | Simplifying Complexity In Commodity Trading
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CTRM
How businesses can simplify complexity in commodity trading
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CTRM
The role of data and workflow management in streamlining commodity trading operations
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How CommOS can bridge data gaps in commodity trading
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CTRM
CTRMCenter’s Demo Report of Gen10’s CommOS capabilities
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CTRM
CommOS – managing operational risk in commodities
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Agriculture & Softs
Risk and Commodity Management in grain trading
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CTRM
CommOS – powering metals supply chain management
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News
Cotton CTRM and Commodity Management – An Overview
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CTRM
Shipping Disruption – Is it time to incorporate vessel tracking into your CTRM? – Part 2
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CTRM
Shipping Disruption – Is it time to incorporate vessel tracking into your CTRM? – Part 1
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Agriculture & Softs
5 steps to a successful cotton CTRM implementation
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CTRM
Metals and CTRM trends in 2024
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Agriculture & Softs
Sustainability is changing the coffee CTRM landscape
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CTRM
Panel discussion: digital strategy in energy & commodity trading
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Agriculture & Softs
COP28 – the impact on Commodities
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News
2024 will be the year of data management in commodities
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Agriculture & Softs
Embracing Digital Solutions in Commodity Trading
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CTRM
Metals traders – close the information gap on assay management
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Agriculture & Softs
Managing cotton documents in CommOS
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Agriculture & Softs
How commodity management creates a more reliable cotton supply chain
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Agriculture & Softs
The benefits of SaaS CTRM in ags and softs
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Agriculture & Softs
Commodity traceability – what you need to know
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Commodity Trading
What’s changing in commodities traceability legislation?
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Biofuels
Energy Trading Week 2023 – What we learned
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CTRM
Flexibility and standardisation – partners, not opposites
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CTRM
The future of CTRM is collaborative
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Agriculture & Softs
Using a Commodity Management System for Cotton Sustainability
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Agriculture & Softs
What’s next for biofuels in commodity shipping?
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CTRM
Carbon accounting in commodity trading
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Commodity Trading
Locked into a black-box CTRM?
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Commodity Trading
Gen10 return to Energy Trading Week London
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CTRM
Maximising commodity traceability, minimising operational risk
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CTRM
Metals traceability can reduce fraud risk
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Commodity Trading
The benefits of commodity traceability beyond ESG
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Agriculture & Softs
Cocoa traders – prepare for the EU Deforestation Regulation now
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Agriculture & Softs
Cotton inventory management in CommOS
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CTRM
Supporting Sustainable Metals with Commodity Management
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Agriculture & Softs
Commodity management right down to the bale
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Agriculture & Softs
The complexity of international cotton logistics
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Agriculture & Softs
Listen Now: Data Driven Sustainability
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Carbon
Unpicking the acronyms in voluntary carbon markets
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Carbon
Commodities and ESG are becoming inseparable (Part Two)
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Agriculture & Softs
CTW London – commodities and ESG are becoming inseparable (Part One)
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Carbon
Join Gen10 at Environmental Markets Week
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Commodity Trading
ESG in metals trading – don’t forget the Governance
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Carbon
Whitepaper | Carbon Markets for Commodities
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Carbon
Gen10 shortlisted for two awards at Commodity Trading Week
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Agriculture & Softs
Managing cotton logistics beyond “Ags and Softs CTRM”
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Agriculture & Softs
Commodity management – solving the problems with cotton CTRM
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Agriculture & Softs
Are commodity traders ready for new sustainability standards?
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Agriculture & Softs
Petrochemical innovations provide benefits for all CommOS users
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Agriculture & Softs
Gen10 get 2023 off to a flying start
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Commodity Trading
Join us at a week of energy and petrochemicals events this February
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CTRM
How many experts does it take to set up a carbon desk?
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User survey names Gen10 among CTRM market leaders
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Commodity Trading
Commodity traceability – start with a data audit: Part 3
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Commodity Trading
Commodity traceability – start with a data audit: Part 2
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Commodity Trading
Commodity traceability – start with a data audit
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CTRM
Catch up on the commodity events of 2022
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Agriculture & Softs
Managing large data sets in cotton trading
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Carbon
Carbon offsetting isn’t a procurement challenge – it’s risk management
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Agriculture & Softs
Complexity in cocoa trading systems
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Agriculture & Softs
Improving cocoa traceability with commodity management
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Commodity Trading
Commodity traceability can help protect against greenwashing risks
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CTRM
What is technical debt?
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News
DigiCom Online – Data is key in commodity trading
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Digital Transformation
Energy Trading Week Americas is almost upon us
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Commodity Trading
What we learned from Oil Trading Online: part two
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News
What we learned from Oil Trading Online: part one
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Carbon
Carbon emissions: the supply chain challenge
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CTRM
Is your CTRM provider innovating on your behalf?
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Carbon
Energy Trading Week: Net Zero is on the agenda
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Agriculture & Softs
Commodities traceability – what’s driving it?
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CTRM
Managing documents in commodity trading
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CTRM
Interoperability: have we finally learned from the past?
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Carbon
Carbon markets and technologies driving the journey to net zero
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Carbon
Corresponding Adjustments in Carbon Markets – How do You Track Them?
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Carbon
Getting serious about carbon markets
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CTRM
Credit risk – an operational approach
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News
Highlights of the Commodity Trading Week conferences
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Agriculture & Softs
The Net Zero Transition – two discussions to watch now
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Gen10 News
Welcoming the return to in-person events
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Carbon
Commodity Trading Week – not too late to sign up
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CTRM
Metals trading – from CTRM systems to CTRM ecosystems
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CTRM
Commodity Management technology remains as vital as ever
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Commodity Trading
Counting down to Commodity Trading Week
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Carbon markets – why you need to be ready now
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Carbon
Trading and transparency in carbon markets
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Carbon
Managing carbon credit pricing variables
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CTRM
Carbon credit trading – get your data in order
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Carbon
Which carbon offset problems can you mitigate?
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Carbon
Voluntary and compliance carbon markets
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Carbon
New webinar series for energy industry launched
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Digital Transformation
Join the Insider’s Guide to Energy podcast this Friday
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CTRM
Is data management helping or hindering your commodity trading?
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CTRM
Does admin get in the way of your commodity trading?
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Carbon
How will carbon markets affect commodity shipping?
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CTRM
Long-term strategic technology partnerships
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CTRM
Carbon border taxes – one year to prepare
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Agriculture & Softs
Ags and softs CTRM needs to be grounded in operations
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Digital Transformation
What do future ETRM systems look like?
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Carbon
Green steel could lead to unexpected collaboration
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Agriculture & Softs
Gen10 launches NetZero OS – a new digital solution for environmental markets
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CTRM
Discussing the future of ETRM with Richard Williamson
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Commodity Trading
LME Week: Sustainability and data matter for metals
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Biofuels
ETRM and Commodity Management – what is it?
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Biofuels
(Most of) the benefits of cloud ETRM
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CTRM
Volatility and collaboration in metals trading
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CTRM
UK gas prices hold lessons for all commodities
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Commodity Trading
Energy Trading Week – What’s on?
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CTRM
Why logistics management should be part of your CTRM
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Commodity Trading
Creating simplicity in a complex petrochemical environment
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CTRM
Could metals traceability signal the end of the CTRM?
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News
Embedding responsible sourcing in commodities
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Agriculture & Softs
Are you factoring climate change into credit risk?
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CTRM
It’s time to re-focus on credit risk
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Digital Transformation
What are power users?
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CTRM
Innovation starts with operational risk management
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Commodity Trading
Electronic trading documents may be coming soon
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CTRM
KYC in Commodities – digitalisation is key
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CTRM
ComRisk – Richard Williamson explains the power of CTRM ecosystems
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CTRM
Ecosystems vs Monoliths in Commodity Management
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CTRM
Commodity Management Ecosystems in the supply chain
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CTRM
Why Commodity Management should be built on an ecosystem
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CTRM
Commodity Trading Week is Fast Approaching
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Agriculture & Softs
Ags trade finance needs better data management
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Biofuels
The energy transition is already here – is your ETRM ready?
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Agriculture & Softs
Future-proofing with a platform-ready CTRM/CM
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CTRM
Metals trade finance needs better inventory management
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CTRM
All you need to know after CTILive! – Part Two
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CTRM
All you need to know after CTILive! – Part One
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Commodity Trading
Disruption and digitalisation in trade finance
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Agriculture & Softs
Whitepaper | Commodity management in a post-Covid world
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Agriculture & Softs
Managing multiple agricultural commodities in one CTRM
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CTRM
Join Gen10 at CTILive! This March
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CTRM
Metals Trading – Focusing on Assay Management
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CTRM
Flexibility in CTRM training and implementations
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CTRM
LNG markets show when supplies are tight, position visibility is crucial
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CTRM
M&A – get systems integration right
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CTRM
What is a SaaS CTRM?
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CTRM
Does your CTRM help your commodity traders?
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CTRM
How a strong client focus helped Gen10 create more agile commodity management solutions
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CTRM
7 ways CTRM systems need to adapt in 2021
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Commodity Trading
Disruption and digital transformation in 2021
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Biofuels
New eBook – Sustainability management in biomass procurement
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Agriculture & Softs
Why we shouldn’t talk about Ags and Softs CTRM
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CTRM
Metals trading, composite curves and CTRM
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CTRM
Traceability is coming to metals supply chains – are you ready?
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Digital Transformation
The 5 pillars of a successful digital transformation
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CTRM
CTRM users name Gen10 among market leaders
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Biofuels
8 ways commodity management technology improves biomass supply chains
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Biofuels
ETOT shows digitalisation is going beyond trading teams
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CTRM
Watch Now – DigiCom 2020: The Future of CTRM
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Commodity Trading
Risk and Commodity Management: what’s changed?
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Biofuels
Opportunities to join Gen10 at virtual events this October
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CTRM
Watch the Webinar Now – Business Continuity in a Post-Covid World
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CTRM
Commodity Management: Keeping people connected
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CTRM
Architecture: what all CTRM buyers should know
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CTRM
Replacing a legacy CTRM can be easier than you think
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CTRM
Supporting remote onboarding in unexpected ways
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CTRM
Interview: The Cloud as a Commodity Management Enabler
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CTRM
Webinar: Business Continuity, Tighter Collaboration and Controls in a Post-COVID World
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CTRM
Can metals traders gain an edge in the changing risk management landscape?
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CTRM
Digitalisation isn’t just about technology
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Biofuels
There is so much variation in energy supply chains – but do ETRMs reflect this?
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Data
ETW Online: In periods of disruption, data leads the way
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Gen10 News
Gen10 launches new site to take the complexity out of digital transformation
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Energy
Join Gen10 at Energy Trading Week Online
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CTRM
Gen10 complete global software implementation under lockdown
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CTRM
The advantages of cloud commodity management in metals trading
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CTRM
Work Better Together – Apart
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CTRM
How automation can power commodity logistics
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Commodity Trading
Traceability and provenance apps in commodity supply chains
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CTRM
Where commodity management apps save time and improve turnover
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CTRM
Big data – Start by breaking down the CTRM monolith
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Biofuels
Biomass and Bioenergy Procurement: When ETRM isn’t enough
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Gen10 News
Business Continuity: preparing for the operational risks of coronavirus
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CTRM
How to improve asset turnover in metals trading
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CTRM
Ecosystems are the future of commodity management software
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Biofuels
Supporting agility in biomass trading
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CTRM