The book has outgrown the systems
Renewables, PPAs, batteries and structured products create shape, volume, basis and valuation risks that older platform estates often represent poorly.
Energy Trading & Commodities
Capmark helps energy and commodity trading businesses strengthen trading platforms, risk controls, data, operations and the physical-to-financial lifecycle.
Our experience and impact
Evidence of Energy Trading & Commodities delivered.
20+ yrs
Trading, risk and post-trade delivery inside Tier 1 markets businesses
15+
Trading and risk platforms implemented or enhanced
4
Market-conduct regimes our surveillance work has answered to
Energy and commodity trading depends on systems and controls that can handle physical delivery, financial exposure and market volatility together.
Many trading businesses are running on ETRM and CTRM estates that have been stretched by new deal types, renewables, PPAs, batteries, structured products, manual curves, fragmented data and spreadsheet workarounds.
Capmark helps trading businesses select, implement, upgrade and recover platforms; strengthen risk, pricing and reference data; and rebuild settlement, invoicing, actualisation and control processes. We bring trading-platform and control disciplines from financial markets, applied to energy and commodity trading needs.
What is changing
Three forces on energy and commodity trading.
Volatility raises the bar for operations
Volatile markets make timely risk, P&L, collateral, settlement and invoicing more valuable. Slow close and unreconciled positions carry direct cost.
Scrutiny of wholesale markets has increased
Trading controls, conduct, reporting, surveillance and counterparty confidence now depend on evidence that the control environment works.
How we can help
Where we work in energy and commodities.
Six capabilities cover energy and commodity trading from product lifecycle to platforms, data, risk and operations.
Client results
Trading, risk and platform disciplines from financial markets.
These examples are framed as capability transfer: market risk, credit risk, settlement, control evidence, data lineage and platform-delivery disciplines that energy trading organisations increasingly need. They are not badged as energy engagements.
Capital Markets · Regulatory Transformation
MiFID II trading controls and infrastructure across six asset classes
Leading Investment Bank · Equities, Derivatives, Commodities, FX, Credit & Rates
We helped deliver trading controls and market infrastructure change across algorithmic trading, direct electronic access, market making, clearing, surveillance and best execution.
Why this applies: trading controls, surveillance, best execution and multi-asset platform delivery — the market and control disciplines an electronifying energy desk now needs.
- 80+
- Venues retained
- $50bn+
- Cleared derivatives volume
- Lower
- Compliance overhead
- Reduced
- Surveillance false positives
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Capital Markets · Operating Model
Markets front office and operations transformation for a global investment bank
Global Investment Bank · Markets Front Office & Operations
We helped redesign the Markets front office and operations operating model — moving trade capture into the front office with clean segregation of duties, standing up nine shared services and centres of excellence across client operations, trade control, margin and collateral, prime and agency derivatives, financing and treasury operations, and moving 100+ roles to lower-cost locations.
Why this applies: front-office and operations operating-model change — trade capture, margin, collateral and settlement — taken into live operation; the same delivery discipline a CTRM/ETRM transformation requires.
- 99.9%
- Trades booked at the point of execution
- 9
- Shared services and centres of excellence created
- 100+
- Roles moved to lower-cost locations
- 80%
- Straight-through processing targeted
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Our Energy Trading & Commodities insights
Practical thinking from people who have delivered the work.
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Speak with a Partner about Energy Trading & Commodities.
From a one-month gap analysis to a multi-year programme, we engage at the stage that fits.