Changing Methods for Collateral Management - FTSE Global Markets - November 2011

Collateral management has also gained considerable traction among banks involved in commodities-based trade finance that are seeking risk solutions associated with the commodities and metals sectors.  "A bank's main objective is to facilitate transactions between the buyer and seller in the most efficient way possible, including transactions of collateral," says Robert de Picciotto, chief executive officer and director general of risk-management solutions company Brady Switzerland

Commodities boom boosts technology supplier

Rebecca Hampson,Dow Jones Financial News

18 Aug 2011 .

Brady, the Cambridge-based trading software company, has announced its fourth big contract in two months, in a further sign of the growing dominance of the technology provider which has notched up a stream of wins during the past year.

Cross-Asset Class Trading Platforms : Dream or Reality?

July 28th 2011 - FOW

As traders diversify to realise greater opportunities for arbitrage and move into new markets, the demand for cross-asset class trading capabilities has never been greater. Looking at what solutions are out there, Roger Aitken of FOW, talks to market participants, including Brady CEO, Gavin Lavelle, about his views and solutions and how traders are increasingly looking for platforms that can trade equities, derivatives, FX and commodities and how the search for low and ultra low latency is defining the evolution of the market.

The pros and cons of switching banking partners

Tony Ratcliffe, CFO of Brady plc speaks to Richard Crump at the "Financial Director" about his views on switching banking partners.

Gavin Lavelle, CEO of Brady talks to Sarah Underwood of the "European CEO" magazine about his pursuit to build the brand.  

Brady Sees Sales Gains on Demand for Commodity-Trading - Gavin Lavelle live on Bloomberg TV

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/71058146/

Brady PLC Conditionally Agrees to Buy Viz Risk Management

Brady PLC, the leading supplier of trading and risk management solutions for metals and commodities, has announced its intended acquisition of Viz Risk Management ("Viz"), a major European provider of risk management and trading solutions to the energy markets, with a focus on electricity, gas, emission certificates and coal. The acquisition will make Brady the largest European provider of specialist integrated trading and risk management solutions to the global metals, commodity and energy markets and propel it into a top six position globally based on revenues. The deal is anticipated to complete in December this year.
To fund the acquisition, Brady has also announced a successful share placing of £15 million with both existing and new investors, which will be used to finance the acquisition and also further increase Brady's cash resources.

Brady, a provider of software to the commodity trading industry, has cashed in on booming investor interest in natural resources by raising £15m to buy a Norwegian rival in a deal that will double its market capitalisation.

INTERVIEW: Metals industry must unite on regulation, says Lavelle

The metal industry must come together to lobby on issues of regulation if it wants to affect the laws and rules that will affect it, Brady ceo Gavin Lavelle said.

“As an industry we need to work together. We need to be lobbying as a group. The metals industry is quite fragmented in its approach, I believe a more co-ordinated approach increases the chances of a more favourable outcome,” Lavelle told MB.

Brady PLC Presses To Be Largest European CTRM Vendor

Brady PLC, a global provider of trading & risk management and settlement solutions to the metals and commodities industry, recently announced its half-yearly results and they make interesting reading.

Brady PLC Presses To Be Largest European CTRM Vendor

Article by Gary M. Vasey (Managing Director, Europe and AsiaPac of UtiliPoint) in Commodity Alert - September 16th 2010.

Tendances selon Brady

Interview with Gavin Lavelle, CEO of Brady plc by L'Agefi on 25 June 2010

Are metals markets ready for change?

Gavin Lavelle, ceo of commodity software solutions company Brady, explains how electronic access to exchanges is changing trading

Cash-rich Brady plc scoops Commodities Software

Brady plc's healthy cash balance has propelled the technology business into acqusition mode.  Interview by Patrizia Rossi from M&A Magazine with Gavin Lavelle, CEO of Brady plc

Implementing a Proven Risk Management System

Dr Robert Brady's presentation at Commodities Week held in London 7-9 October 2008

Commodities on the menu

The commodity markets are unique because they contain such a wide range of automation practices – ranging from virtually 100% openness and automated trading in the case of the US exchanges, to partly open processes in the London Metal Exchange, right through to highly manual practices in the commodity industry that these exchanges serve. There is now a pent-up demand to extend trading automation right into the commodity industry.

Technology requirements in commodities

We are in the middle of a seismic shift in the commodity markets – a total restructuring of the industry and of the world economy that depends on it. How must suppliers of risk management technology respond?

Base Metals Producers Invest

We’ve been signing deals with companies, who currently have de-hedging policies, to provide global risk management software which will, among other things, enable them to re-hedge in the future,” the founder and chief technology officer of Brady plc said.

Meet the new boss - Gavin Lavelle

Banking Technology Magazine meets Brady Plc's new Chief Executive