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17 November 2024

Your Guide to Understanding LNG Deal Flex Components

Flex components are customisable options within an LNG deal contract that grant the holder the choice, but not the obligation, to exercise them. LNG deal structures can include various types of flex options, such as location flex, price flex, volume flex, and flexibilities around cargo scheduling, including DQT and UQT. Flex options may be explicit […]

06 November 2024

Lacima’s brand new customer support Help Centre is now available

We’ve made big improvements to the way we support our customers with the launch of our brand new Help Centre. The new Lacima Help Centre provides a host of great new education and learning resources and functionality to help our clients get the most out of their Lacima solution.     Best-in-class support Our customers […]

18 October 2024

How to calculate margin requirements for EEX-traded products

Forecasting margins can be extremely challenging, particularly in volatile times, and existing solutions are inefficient and offer limited insights. Effective margin management requires participants to not only calculate their current margin position, but drill down to understand which positions are driving margin requirements, and the effect of margin offsets. Optimised to work with ECC’s SPAN […]

20 September 2024

Enhance your Value-at-Risk management with smart analytics

Watch as Lacima’s trading and risk expert Martin Ogden walks through a real-world example using outputs from Lacima Analytics visualised in Microsoft PowerBI to identify a VaR breach and drill down to uncover the cause. In this video, you’ll learn how to perform: VaR decomposition to identify sources of risk; VaR attribution to determine why […]

08 August 2024

Uncovering value and risk in LNG Deals

Watch as our resident LNG expert Martin Ogden demonstrates how to uncover value and risk drivers in LNG deals and portfolios using business intelligence dashboards to interrogate data for deeper insights. In this video, you’ll learn how to: 👉 Identify and understand intrinsic and extrinsic value 📈 Assess value and risk in individual LNG deals […]

21 June 2024

June 2024 Newsletter – Preparing for the rise of PPAs

Record renewable generation has left some energy market participants rushing to come to grips with how to price Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) and manage risk for this rapidly growing asset class. In this month’s issue: Getting the basics right – demystifying buying, selling, and managing the risks of PPAs Record growth has left some energy […]

17 May 2024

LNG Deal & Portfolio Analysis – Power BI Dashboard Outputs

  These LNG Deal and Portfolio Analysis dashboards were created using data from the Lacima Analytics solution. They are based on an example LNG portfolio and highlight the power of being able to visualise and interact with output data in this way.

02 April 2024

Energy Risk Awards 2024 – Lacima makes it an even dozen, ranking #1 for the twelfth year in a row

  Lacima continues its winning streak as a leader in energy and commodities analytics. The Lacima team takes out the top spot in four categories in Energy Risk Software Rankings’ 2024 and secures top five placings in a further 27 categories. “I know I speak for the whole team in saying we couldn’t have achieved […]

06 February 2024

Webinar – PPAs for renewables

Pricing and risk management of Power Purchase Agreements for renewables The below webinar has already been held – for upcoming webinars please see our events page. As the importance of wind and solar assets continues to grow, new contracts have emerged to monetise and risk-manage these assets, most notably Power Purchase Agreements (‘PPAs’).  With PPAs […]

28 November 2023

Navigating aftershocks of war and extreme volatility: the critical need for deep value-at-risk insights

Today’s markets face unparalleled uncertainty from factors such as war, inflation, supply chain disruptions, Covid’s after-effects, climate change, bank defaults, and protectionist policies. These conditions heighten volatility and the potential for black-swan events. Trading companies must understand their portfolio’s value, driving forces, and risk-reward profile, assessing their resilience to shocks. These factors often dictate the […]