CommodityFirst
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CommodityFirst is committed to help optimise and grow
your commodity trading and technology business.
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CommodityFirst is committed to help optimise and grow
your commodity trading and technology business.
Arnaud Schwob
Senior Consultant
”With the volatile nature of commodity markets, effective risk management is paramount. CommodityFirst provides business analysis services that focus on providing comprehensive solutions for risk management in commodity trading. Our risk management specialists help getting solutions in place for analyzing market dynamics, price risks, forecasting, and scenario analysis to help you make informed decisions, hedge against uncertainties, and maximize returns. Our expertise in risk management empowers your business to proactively navigate market fluctuations and achieve sustainable growth in the dynamic world of commodity trading.”
Ian Clark
Senior Consultant
“A gap between business and IT is quite common in trading organizations, especially in front-office and mid-office. Our technology experts specialize in bridging this gap by translating the business requirements into technical concepts and deliverables which IT people can understand and manage. Leveraging cutting-edge technologies such as Excel DNA, Web sockets, OAuth2.0, Azure, Kafka, SQL, AWS API Gateway, Aurora, Dynamo, Kinesis, Beacon Python, MongoDB, Redis Cache, and Lambdas, we deliver seamless solutions. Experience the ‘magic’ of our services, exceeding expectations while adhering to budgets, and unlocking new possibilities for your trading organization.”
Mats Forsman
Senior Partner, Co-Founder
”In an ever-changing trading environment with urgent calls for green transformation, most organizations face similar challenges, with important and critical questions around key capabilities. The expected growth and increased frequency of data originating from intermittent assets and external changes in the short- term markets put additional challenges on the existing trading systems landscape. We help clients to successfully navigate these difficulties and complex topics by bridging trading and technology through a mix of business and IT savvy people.”
Mikael Nordström
Managing Partner, Co-Founder
”To reduce their carbon footprint, many energy utilities and energy majors are actively working to eliminate their dependence on fossil fuels, which in turn is leading to shrinking asset portfolios. Compensating for such a loss requires new strategies such as expanding into new markets and geographies, managing new commodities such as LNG, and not least accelerating the development of renewable assets. We help large international players to understand and implement the capabilities, work processes, and systems support, necessary to realize their new strategies.”
Nicolas Vignon
Senior Consultant
”Data-driven decision-making has become more crucial than ever. Trading organizations face an array of challenges in their quest to improve operational efficiency and make well-informed decisions based on accurate and actionable insights. To address these challenges head-on, trading data experts at CommodityFirst work closely with traders, understanding their unique needs, and providing ongoing support. This collaborative approach does not only ensure that the data reports align with the traders’ objectives but also allow for continuous improvement and adaptation as market conditions evolve.”
Peter Antkowiak
Senior Consultant
”Traders require efficient tools for recognizing risk and driving profits. CommodityFirst specializes in delivering tailored toolkits that streamline front-office activity and enhance collaboration across trading desks.
With comprehensive features, adaptable designs, and views on real-time data, our solutions empower traders to make informed decisions and stay ahead in dynamic markets. Our clean application design helps maximize trader awareness of market development.”
Petter Torp
Senior Partner
”Today, all trading organizations are facing the same challenges when it comes to running efficient and low-cost trading operations. In a changing market environment, the challenges range from compliance with regulatory requirements to standardizing systems and processes, at the same time staying flexible enough to quickly capture new business and scalable enough to cope with increased transaction volumes. We help trading companies to design, optimize and automate trade processes that support new business activities and growth.”
Tim Haaijman
Partner
“Almost all commodity trading organizations are challenged by a technical debt of many decades. This is becoming increasingly pivotal to delivering competitive advantage and risk management in markets affected by climate targets, geo-politics, increased volatility, and expanding algorithmic trading activity. We support trading organizations with their technological advancements, delivering near-real-time data capabilities for decision-making, and systems for handling significant growth of trading activities and data volumes.”
CommodityFirst is founded and managed by people with senior management experience from the commodity, technology, and management consulting industries. CommodityFirst partners with utilities, trading houses and investment banks to address their challenges and help grow, optimise, and transform their business.
We operate predominantly in Europe where we run and participate in regional and global projects, and together with partners we can deliver and operate on a global basis.
Selection of current and recent assignments:
A €75m transformation program for an international energy trading company
Multimillion pan-European asset optimization and scheduling solution for a large European energy utility
Multimillion risk management solution to enable business growth for a leading renewables company.
CommodityFirst was founded in 2011. In addition to decades of business, management, and technology consulting experience, all key consultants have in depth experience from the commodity trading industry as former C-level managers, trading desk heads, originators, risk managers, lead architects and developers.
CommodityFirst fully covers trading, operations, and technology, and the strength lies primarily in managing large programs, realising strategies, developing and transforming businesses and technology, and implementing processes and business critical applications.
Based on the broad background and experience of the key consultants, CommodityFirst is able to cover several roles with fewer resources, and hence has a very strong track record of delivering the most complex projects with agreed functionality, on time and on budget.
