19 Feb 2010Forward Curve Management...Why the Complexity?

Richard Quigley
CEO, DataGenic Ltd.

Of all the issues and requirements that I come across in the industry, the winner by a country mile is forward curve management. This functional area concerns both buy and sell side organisations and is not restricted to a particular sector. Quite simply, if you are engaged in market trading activities that facilitate you buying, or selling forward, goods/services (physical or financial) the importance of forward curves is paramount for mark-to-market, risk exposure, key inputs for derivative pricing models, identification of future arbitrage opportunities and trader evaluation strategies.

11 Jan 20102010: Forward Curves and beyond

Richard Quigley
CEO, DataGenic Ltd.

With 2009 now behind us and some embryonic optimism emanating from the media and global markets, this New Year has the potential to offer a more stable platform for business growth, than business consolidation in 2009 (for some). This was very evident in Q409 (traditional next year’s capex and opex budget setting time), with a notable number of clients with RFI/RFP’s for ETRM and data management solutions, with implementation starting Q1 and Q2 2010.

01 May 2009Extreme Data Management

Colin Hartley
CTO, DataGenic Ltd.

Backward and forward traceability; a small amount of text for what will essentially swamp your database with information - or will it?

17 Apr 2009NY Fed Focuses on Data Management Practices

Richard Quigley
CEO, DataGenic Ltd.

On the 23rd February 2009, a significant event happened in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (NY Fed). It was not reported in our usual mainstream news, like CNN, BBC News etc.; and yet the significance of the event has not been lost by senior politicians on both sides of the Atlantic and data management practitioners alike - John Bottega, a reference data veteran and ex-Chief Data Officer for Citi's Institutional Client Group, was appointed as the as NY Fed's Chief Data Officer (CDO), Markets Division.

13 Mar 2009Asia 1st Anniversary

Perlyn Per
Managing Director, Asia

To mark our successful one year anniversary operating in the Asian market, we hosted an evening cocktail party at the Swissotel, Stamford in Singapore, inviting industry peers in the energy, finance and public sectors and our data vendor partners to join in the celebration.

27 Feb 2009Marketing dexterity will save the day

Richard Quigley
CEO, DataGenic Ltd.

For anyone involved in the European energy industry, two weeks in February every year can easily become a blur. Endless meetings, parties, conferences are all part of the endurance for energy professionals at the two biggest events of the year: E-world (Essen, Germany) and IP Week (London, UK). I can still feel the effect of this 'marathon' even at the time of writing (some 2 weeks after)!

03 Feb 2009Cut costs, not corners

Richard Quigley
CEO, DataGenic Ltd.

As the global economy continues its relentless contraction, the costs of operating a company's services come under the microscope. Nothing focuses the CEO's mind better than the potential of business failure; a hostile takeover or simply losing market share.

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27 Jan 2009An introduction

This is the blog of DataGenic management. DataGenic an international specialist in the delivery of data management solutions and we'd like to share some of our thoughts and opinions with you here.

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