Aligne For Energy Physical Traders and Marketers

In today’s highly volatile energy markets, trader/marketers serve customers seeking better access to sources or information, more reliability in supply or more effective asset management. You manage an asset-oriented business that requires you to be as deeply involved in the physical markets that you participate in as your customers. With customers across differing geographies, commodities and industry segments, you must actively monitor markets while focusing on maximizing real and perceived values for them, and minimizing and controlling your own costs.

You face all of the challenges of financial traders with the added risks associated with managing physical assets for your customers and yourself.  Market rules, state and country regulations focused on minimizing risk have added levels of reporting and auditability that increase the challenge of compliance and control. SunGard’s Aligne provides the transaction backbone, reporting and decision support tools to help trader/marketers meet these challenges.

Features

  • Includes all of the key components supporting financial traders
  • Supports full transaction lifecycle for structured contracts
  • Performs hourly and sub-hourly gas and power scheduling
  • Manages delivery logistics and inventory valuations
  • Values and optimizes structured contracts & asset portfolios
  • Helps to assess, monitor and manage risk
  • Provides interfaces to markets and exchanges
  • Models and manages load and generation assets

Benefits

  • Streamlines trading for timely decision-making
  • Supports compliance for audit and regulatory reporting
  • Facilitates understanding of risk factors and definition of trading strategies

Brochures & Datasheets

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