What is a CTRM system?

A CTRM (commodity trading and risk management) system is the platform a trading business runs its book on. It captures physical and paper trades, values positions against market curves, tracks credit and market exposure, schedules and tracks cargoes, and settles the money — replacing the spreadsheet estate most desks accumulate. Octane covers that whole lifecycle in one audited platform.

How is Octane different from a spreadsheet-based trading operation?

A spreadsheet cannot tell you who changed a price, when, or on whose approval. Octane records every change as an immutable audit event, routes governed changes through maker-checker approval, and emits domain events so downstream modules react automatically. Position, risk and settlement all read from the same records, so the desk, the risk team and finance stop reconciling three versions of the truth.

Which commodities does Octane support?

Crude oil, refined products, natural gas and LNG, coal, and carbon credits — physical and paper, spot, term and master-contract structures. Units, quality specifications, conversion factors and pricing conventions are configured per commodity rather than hard-coded.

How is Octane licensed and priced?

Octane is licensed by package: Trade, Operate, Settle and Control, plus Advanced Analytics. Start with the one that matches how your desk works today and turn on another as the operation grows — the platform is one system, so adding a package unlocks modules rather than starting a migration. Advanced Analytics is charged separately because it carries its own data infrastructure. Founding clients get a free, customizable development application and a 30-day full-feature trial.

Can Octane run on our own infrastructure?

Yes. Octane runs as a browser application, as a mirrored desktop client for Windows, macOS and Linux, and can be deployed into your own cloud tenancy or data centre. It is a Java and PostgreSQL stack with no proprietary runtime dependency.

How long does implementation take?

Because reference data, permissions, approval workflows and even interface wording are configured rather than coded, a single-desk deployment is measured in weeks rather than the multi-year programmes this category is known for. Founding clients are onboarded alongside the team that builds the product.

Environmental products

Carbon & emissions trading software

Registry accounts, standard and vintage, project eligibility, transfer and retirement. A carbon credit is only as good as its provenance, so every holding carries its issuance, movement and retirement evidence as an immutable chain.

Units: tCO₂e Physical & paper

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Octane carbon registry holdings, transfers and retirement

The lifecycle

From capture to cash, on one record.

1
Capture

Standard, vintage, project and registry account on the trade.
2
Price

Governed curves per standard and vintage.
3
Operate

Registry transfer and retirement with evidence attached.
4
Settle

Settlement on transferred and retired volume.

Built for this market

What you get for Carbon & emissions.

Configured for how this market actually trades — units, specifications, pricing conventions and settlement rules — rather than a generic template with the labels changed.

Registry holdings & events

Issued, transferred and retired states tracked per holding, so a credit cannot be sold twice or quietly retired without a record.

Standard, vintage & eligibility

Standard, vintage and project eligibility held as contract terms and enforced at capture.

Retirement evidence

Retirement carries its evidence and approval, which is what an auditor asks for first.

Renewable certificates

RECs and guarantees of origin tracked through the same issuance-to-retirement lifecycle.

Compliance reporting

Registry position and movement reporting from the same records the book is valued on.

Maker-checker on movements

Registry transfers route through approval before they apply.

Before you ask

Questions we get from Carbon & emissions desks.

Can Octane track credits through to retirement?: Yes. Issuance, transfer and retirement are recorded as an immutable event chain per holding, with evidence and approval attached to each movement.

Also covered

Every market on one platform.

Desks rarely trade one thing. Each market below runs on its own rulebook inside the same system of record — so a crude cargo and a power block share governance without sharing assumptions.

Crude Oil Refined Products Natural Gas & LNG Power & Electricity Coal Carbon & Emissions NGL & Hydrocarbons Petrochemicals Biofuels & Ethanol Paper & Derivatives

See it with your Carbon & emissions book.

We configure the demo around your contracts, your curves and your counterparties — so you are looking at your own desk, not a sample one.

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