Implementing a Proven Risk Management System

Dr Robert Brady's presentation at Commodities Week held in London 7-9 October 2008

Commodities on the menu

The commodity markets are unique because they contain such a wide range of automation practices – ranging from virtually 100% openness and automated trading in the case of the US exchanges, to partly open processes in the London Metal Exchange, right through to highly manual practices in the commodity industry that these exchanges serve. There is now a pent-up demand to extend trading automation right into the commodity industry.

Technology requirements in commodities

We are in the middle of a seismic shift in the commodity markets – a total restructuring of the industry and of the world economy that depends on it. How must suppliers of risk management technology respond?

Base Metals Producers Invest

“We’ve been signing deals with companies, who currently have de-hedging policies, to provide global risk management software which will, among other things, enable them to re-hedge in the future,” the founder and chief technology officer of Brady plc said. 

Xstrata Copper, one of the world’s larger copper producers, recently did a deal to use such software at its Dubai operations, MB learned recently. 

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