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The Importance of Real-Time Forward Curves
The combination of these features helps to provide many
benefits to both traders and risk managers including:
/Positions can be marked more accurately using re-
al-time prices
/Traders gain greater visibility into markets and are able
to spot opportunities that otherwise may have been
missed
/Custom price curves can be created to solve illiquidity,
seasonality, UOM or currency issues
/The curves can be shared across front, mid and back
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office for consistency
/The tool provides a full audit trail for compliance and
stakeholders
Tools like MarketView and CurveBuilder from Drilling-
info tick many of the boxes in meeting the rapidly de-
veloping appetite for risk management and trade sup-
port in today’s rapidly changing commodity markets. As
markets continue to evolve and change under regulato-
ry and stakeholder oversight, such tools are becoming
essential not just to effectively manage risk, but to prove
it too.
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