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Next Generation Integrated Treasury & Trading

A ComTechAdvisory Whitepaper

Case Study
A leading integrated oil and gas company with operations in 42 countries and over 26,000 employees
globally selected an integrated treasury and trading platform from OpenLink that supported trading operations for oil and refined products, derivatives, FX and IR with consolidated credit and collateral management
across the Group.
The single solution generates significant business process synergies across the business lines and a single
and consistent view of risk across the company’s divisions. It also resulted in substantial cost savings and
reduced integration points by using one platform rather than two independent solutions.
The benefits include;

- Physical crude and related derivatives, refined products and freight trading
- Managing physical logistics of moving crude and refined products by vessel, barge and pipeline across the
world
- Group-wide FX/IR management and liquidity risk management reducing cost of finance by automating
cash and liquidity management processes to reduce demand for cash and banking costs
- Market risk, credit risk and collateral management
- Commodity Risk management with risk analytics, mark to market calculations, stress testing, scenario
analysis and value at risk
- Integration with over 40 third-party systems including ERP systems, market data repositories, real-time
market price providers and other in-house application
Having a single platform not only enables a complete overview of physical and financial trading positions and
exposure across the group. It also reduces risk and leads to better operational efficiency because there are
fewer manual processes. The result is a more robust system at a lower cost.

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