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Overview
Pan-European and North American Energy Trading & Risk Management Solution for front, middle and back office
Energy traders in Europe's liberalised energy markets and North America's open markets need to identify and quickly seize cross-border opportunities, communicate with a host of new players, track processes and assess a variety of risks.
Europe and North America's leading energy companies turn to ZaiNet's comprehensive suite of front, middle and back office solutions to manage risk and return across their business, and to deal effectively with the complexities brought about by liberalized or deregulated markets.
Challenges faced by European and North American energy traders include:
*Managing multi-commodity trades across disparate geographic areas
*Managing higher traded volumes between a larger number of players than ever before
*Complying to different reporting protocols, intervals, currencies and measurement units when trading between different European and North American countries
*Applying a consistent set of data assumptions, valuation models, simulation methodologies, controls and risk metrics across all commodities in real time
*Ensuring seamless data transfer with counterparty systems and market platforms
*Complying with evolving regulatory standards such as the Emissions Trading Scheme, IFRS, FAS 133, US FERC Reporting and Sarbanes-Oxley controls
*Implementing a solution with an ROI that meet's today's business needs that is scalable to support future business expansion
*Analyzing dozens of data sources at one time in order to produce a wealth of scenarios for risk management best practice
*Integrating physical operations and financial trading
Business Benefits of ZaiNet
*A complete offering in one single platform that integrates trading with other business functions from corporate planning to back office confirmations, affording efficiencies in the entire business process
*Handles all major commodities: gas, power, coal, oil, emissions and weather in a single window
*Configurable reporting protocols, intervals, currencies and measurement units to support cross border trading in Europe and North America
*Highly sophisticated price, credit and physical risk management tools, allowing traders to maximize reward to risk ratio
*Calculates real time mark-to-market and positions across the organization
*Scalable integration backbone providing flexibility to expand business into new commodities and geographies
*Straight-through-processing for data exchange with market and grid operators, enabling customers to automate business processes
*Optimises utilization of physical assets in the portfolio
*Execution of highly customized reports for fast and accurate analysis of business performance
*Advanced security and auditing capabilities to meet risk control best practice
Functionality:
*• Deal capture
*• Value-at risk
*• Ad-hoc report writing
*• Settlement processing
*• Portfolio stress testing
*• Actuals invoicing
*• European power scheduling
*• North American power scheduling
• Credit limits
*• Hourly pricing
*• Exotic options
*• User-defined formula pricing
*• Enterprise-wide risk management
*• Real-time monitoring and messaging (NEW)
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