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TransGraph's research expertise has been of a great help to the industry players. Part of our analysis has been chosen for various reports in different news wires. For those who have been following our work and those who are interested to know what we do, this might be an informing read:

Palm Seen Dropping to Four-Year Low on MACD: Technical Analysis
Feb 28, 2013: Palm, the most-consumed cooking oil, will probably slump as much as 21 percent in the next three months to the lowest level in four years, according to technical analysis by TransGraph Consulting Pvt.
The most-active contract on the Malaysia Derivatives Exchange may decline to 1,900 ringgit ($614) a metric ton as the moving average convergence-divergence indicator signals weakness on the monthly chart, said Ravi Chandra, vice president of Hyderabad, India-based TransGraph. More....(bloomberg)

Palm Oil Stockpiles in Malaysia Seen Near Record: Survey
Jan 7, 2013: "The zero tax bracket is likely to encourage CPO exports in the coming days," said Nagaraj Meda, chairman of Hyderabad, India-based TransGraph Consulting Pvt., referring to crude palm oil by its initials. More....(bloomberg)

Palm-Oil Stockpiles in Malaysia to Jump to 11-Month High
Sep 5, 2012 : Palm-oil stockpiles are expected to climb further as production is seen outpacing exports,” said Nagaraj Meda, chairman of Hyderabad, India-based Transgraph Consulting Pvt. “September and October production is expected to be robust. More....(bloomberg)

Cooking-Oil Imports by India Set to Drop on Stockpiles
Aug 13, 2012 : The market is already over supplied,” said Nagaraj Meda, chairman of Hyderabad-based Transgraph Consulting Pvt. “In the festival season, we might not see any considerable surge in demand as food inflation is very high and Indian rural consumption is likely to take a beating due to crop failure in many states. More....(bloomberg)

Palm Oil to Drop on Weak Demand, Stockpiles, TransGraph Says
Aug 7, 2012 : Palm oil may decline as much as 14 percent to the lowest level in two years by end-September or early October as global economic concerns reduce demand, said Hyderabad, India-based TransGraph Consulting Pvt.
Prices will drop towards 2,750 ringgit a metric ton and may extend the slide to 2,500 ringgit ($807) as inventories build in Malaysia and the export tax falls on crude palm oil from Indonesia, the biggest producer, Chairman Nagaraj Meda said in an interview. More....(bloomberg)

Palm-Oil Stockpiles in Malaysia to Jump Most in 10 Months
Aug 6, 2012 : "Sagging export-demand will keep weak prices intact" although output fell about 8.9 percent in the the first seven months of the year, said Nagaraj Meda, managing director of Hyderabad, India-based TransGraph Consulting Pvt.
Malaysia’s decision to increase a duty-free export quota for crude palm oil to 5 million tons this year may limit gains in prices as it expanded supplies, said TransGraph’s Meda. More....(bloomberg)

Palm Oil Heading For 20-Month Low As Slowdown Cuts Demand
Jun 8, 2012 : A further decline in crude prices in the absence of stimulus measures from the U.S. “will see the opening up of the gates for prices to fall further,” said Nagaraj Meda, managing director of TransGraph Consulting Pvt., who has forecast prices for 13 years. More....(bloomberg)

Palm Oil Seen Rising 8% to Year High as Drought Wilts South American Crops
Mar 5, 2012: Palm oil may advance 7.8 percent by mid-April to the highest level in a year as cooking-oil demand outstrips supply, according to TransGraph Consulting Pvt. Chairman Nagaraj Meda, who has forecast prices for 13 years. More....(bloomberg)

Press Releases

TransRisk now on cloud
(July 2014)
TransRisk is now installed on cloud at a client place and offers its user’s access through a browser based risk management application. This is helping clients to manage administrative cost of maintaining the IT resources in local network. With more and more organizations moving towards the cloud based IT policy for the flexibility it offers, TransRisk supports cloud based Risk Management and can integrate with cloud and local systems without compromising the data security.

Portfolio creation much more easy now
(April 2014)
TransRisk has now come up with an improvised feature which empowers users to add new nodes under various dimensions such as profit centers, commodities, counterparties etc. in the master data list themselves. This gives a lot of flexibility to the users to create new portfolios / sub-portfolios based on the changing needs at client place. TransRisk automatically calculate the net exposures, P&L and VaR such measures for the newly created portfolios without any extra efforts.

Multiple verticals
(April 2014)
TransRisk can now support multiple verticals within the same instance so that a single application can work as different applications for different set of users in the same organization. A typical example will be Agri business division and metals divisions in a company. They will be able to use a single TransRisk licensed version with their own master data definitions for relevant profit centers, commodities, counterparties, traders etc. Also, data level security access if required can also be setup e.g. if upstream and downstream traders need not know positions of other divisions, this could be possible with the new feature.

Barrier and Digital options in your portfolio? Rely on TranRisk for valuations and risk reporting.
(Feb 2014)
Two more exotic instruments are added to arsenal of TransRisk VaR engine. Now, TransRisk handles exotic options like Digital & Barrier options for valuation and risk calculations. What is a Barrier option? - Barrier option is an exotic path dependent derivative instrument whose payoff depends on whether or not the underlying asset has reached or exceeded a predetermined price called barrier level that is set at the time of option initiation. There are different variants of a barrier option – knock-in, knock-out – both of these are supported in TransRisk What is a Digital Option? - A Digital Option is a type of option where the payoff is either some fixed amount or fixed quantity of asset if a certain condition is met or nothing at all. These are also called as binary options. There are different variants of a digital option – Cash, Asset & Gap - all of these are supported in TransRisk Advantage TransRisk – · If you have Digital/Barrier options in your portfolio, you can calculate VaR in TransRisk for different Digital/Barrier options. · Faster algorithms in TransRisk ensure speedy calculations and overall quick response time.

American Options
(Dec 2013)
Adding new capabilities is always exciting. Our in-house quantitative research group enabled the pricing algorithm for American Options in TransRisk’s VaR engine. This enables accepting American based options into a portfolio. Faster algorithms in TransRisk ensure speedy calculations and overall quick response time. American options, most popular type options are now supported in TransRisk for valuation and risk calculations

CVaR
(Nov 2013)
New methodology, aimed at giving stable & more accurate Component VaR calculations, implemented in TransRisk. The new methodology supports linear as well as non-linear instruments and produces stable component VaR numbers by capturing statistical properties of individual trades price movements with respect to the portfolio Component VaR tells the effect on portfolio VaR by removing a position from it, is very useful in risk limits setting & capital allocation. Component VaR risk management report for different positions in the portfolio shows how individual trades or positions contribute the portfolio risk, and identifies those trades which act to hedge the remainder of the portfolio.

MVaR – Deeper risk insights into your portfolio
(Sep 2013)
Marginal VaR (MVaR) of an individual position / sub-portfolio is the sensitivity of portfolio VaR to the amount invested in the individual position / sub-portfolio. The marginal VaR measured for each change provides us with the amount of risk added to the entire portfolio by the given change. Apart from calculating regular VaR measures for a portfolios & sub-portfolios, TransRisk also added Marginal VaR calculations to its risk suite.

E-mailing reports – Secured way of getting authentic reports
(Sep 2013)
Sending authentic reports from TransRisk is now a click away. Exposure and Risk Reports can also be emailed to the desired emails ids as pdf or excel files. This saves a lot of time for risk managers and MIS managers while to generate a specific report and send it without any human intervention after publishing the report from TransRisk. Check to manipulation of data / report. TransRisk has the flexible and comprehensive reporting framework. User can create reports / report templates for quick regular usage.

GUI revamp
(Aug 2013)
TransRisk now has a revamped user interface which is cleaner, sleeker and more intuitive. The new interface has been developed after working with customers and incorporating their feedback with the objective to enhance user experience as well as better addressing of their needs. The new GUI comes with variety of choices for graphics to help visual aid and presentation of complex trend reports so that they are easy to read. It allows immediately taking data and producing variety of chart types including histograms, 2D and 3D bar charts, pie diagrams and many more. Apart from this, different modules of TransRisk have been grouped now more logically to make the navigation as well as features utilization much more efficient.

Data Quality Report – How good is your price data?
(Aug 2013)
VaR calculations being highly dependent on input price data, missing data points as well as common data points between different risk factors hold lot of significance. Different VaR methodologies extract different types of information from the available data hence the quality of underlying price data set for risk factors is a very important part of risk quantification. Data Quality Report is a unique offering from TransRisk that will enable risk managers to assess the quality of data in price securities in terms of their relevance and mutual overlap. For any combination of price securities, user can analyze the last data point for a security as well as common data points in last 30, 60 or 90 days. Users can define their own quality ratings to assess whether the data is good, average or bad. It will also help to understand whether changes in VaR levels are due to any changes in general levels of volatilities / correlations or it can be attributed to poor quality price data.

Retrigger computations in a click
(May 2013)
For a variety of reasons like wrong data inputs, data coming with a lag, wrong risk factors mapping etc , calculations need to be done again to take into effect the correct data setup settings. A new feature in TransRisk now saves a lot of time by allowing users to retrigger calculations for any past dates without having to search for the past dates position files/ running the ETL again for past date. With the option to select a date range for which retriggering is required, with minimum user intervention now past calculated data can be rectified in the system. Don’t worry; program intelligently identifies how to handle latest data while processing the past dates data.

Management Dashboard
(April 2013)
Dashboards in TransRisk an added jewel to our existing offerings. It synthesises critical business aspects in a manner that focuses attention on the key messages underlying the numbers. Drill down functionality is available to link the cause and effect relationship by delving into further details. These dashboards are highly customisable and you can create your own which will then be automatically updated as and when new data comes into the system. Management Dashboard is a powerful management reporting tool which equips top management as well as line managers with a full understanding of business performance indicators as well as the risk metrics. Regular reporting being it is internal or any compliance, the data is available on a click. The data is available in graphical and tabular formats.

Simulate revamp
(March 2013)
The Simulate module lets a User simulate scenarios involving various parameters from Prices to Correlations and assess the probable effect on Portfolio’s risk and P&L. Users can create and test what-if scenarios with both the exposure and the risk parameters to simulate innumerable situations – from highly likely to extremely unlikely Simulate module of TransRisk improvised for quicker calculations and more user friendly features as total flexibility to choose which sub-portfolios to be simulated so that more realistic scenarios could be created.

Derivative Valuation – Not an issue. TransRisk will do it for you.
(Feb 2013)
Derivative Valuation is an on the fly tool for valuation of derivatives which includes options, swaps & exotics. Instrument details required for valuation could either be provided in the screen as well as well as parameters of existing positions could be played with to understand the effect on valuations. Preparing for inputs of exotic derivatives is much more easy compare to the products available in the market. Other tools do requires lot of inputs such as volatility, average, maximum and minimum price etc. However, TransRisk effectively uses the existing information within the system and do all intermediate calculations that are necessary for pricing algorithm to compute. OTC contracts with multiple exercises can also be setup in this module to obtain the valuations and greeks.

Wilmar International chose TransGraph’s Risk Management System TransRisk to automate and help in Decision Analytics for Risk Management Function.
November, 2011
TransGraph Consulting Pvt Ltd, a leading Commodity Risk Management solutions company announced that Wilmar International limited has selected TransRisk to manage its market risk operations and decision analytics for Risk Management. More....

Wilmar International chose TransGraph's Risk Management System TransRisk to automate and help in Decision Analytics for Risk Management Function.

Singapore (November, 2011) – TransGraph Consulting Pvt Ltd, a leading Commodity Risk Management solutions company announced that Wilmar International limited has selected TransRisk to manage its market risk operations and decision analytics for Risk Management.

Wilmar International is Asia’s leading agribusiness group. One of the largest listed companies by market capitalization on Singapore Exchange. It’s business activities include palm-oil cultivation, oilseeds crushing, edible oils refining, sugar, specialty fats, oleo chemicals and biodiesel manufacturing and grains processing. Headquartered in Singapore, Wilmar has over 300 manufacturing plants and an extensive distribution network covering China, India, Indonesia and some 50 other countries to support a well established processing and merchandising business. Wilmar also manufactures and distributes fertilizers and owns a fleet of vessels. The Group is backed by a multi-national staff force of more than 88,000 people.

TransRisk, is the only Multi Dimensional Market Risk management solution dedicated for commodities industry. TransRisk is chosen after stringent evaluation and testing. Wilmar has operations in number of geographies, presence in number of commodities across the value chain, and it is of strategic importance for Wilmar to manage Commodity and Currency risk effectively and in timely manner. Also the kind of specific commodity operations, complex contracts and business scenarios that emanates makes Risk Management function quite challenging and complex for Wilmar. TransGraph successfully demonstrated the robustness, scalability and parameterization capability to Wilmar and of its suitability for them.

Mr. Nagaraj Meda, MD, TransGraph opines that the solution will help Wilmar International to quantify the risk from various dimensions like profit center, shipment month, commodity etc and implement the best risk management practices and help them effectively manage optimal risks for a public limited company. This is a testimony for TransRisk as best of breed solution for Palm Industry with leading players like Wilmar, Asian Agri , Golden Agri international and Good Hope group choosing TransRisk.

About TransGraph

TransGraph Consulting is a pioneer in commodity ‘Price Risk Management solutions’ and ‘Market Analysis & Price Outlook’ services. Its knowledge based decision enabling services are widely used by clients spread across the industries like commodity trading, manufacturing, FMCG, oil and oilseed, metals and mining, automobile etc. TransGraph’s strength and expertise lies in the areas of ‘price forecasting’,’ risk management’ and ‘value chain analysis’. TransGraph’s flagship risk management software TransRisk enables commodity trading companies to quantify the risk, implement risk management policy and implement customized hedge dash boards.

TransGraph and TRADEPAQ announce strategic partnership for the Commodity Markets.

(May 31, 2010) –TransGraph, Commodity market mentors, providing market risk management solutions along with its leading risk management software, TransRisk, announced a strategic partnership with TRADEPAQ TRM LLC, a leading global provider of Commodity Trade and Risk Management (CTRM) software. Under the terms of the agreement, the two firms will jointly offer CTRM solutions; collaborating on marketing, sales and customer service with support across all the commodities markets.

Businesses exposed to commodities markets face significant challenges in terms of trade execution, trade processing and regulatory and business challenges. They also face significant market risk due to heightened volatility in commodity markets. The partnership assumes significance as both the firms will be able to offer an integrated best of the breed solutions in commodities trade processing and risk management software along with extremely flexible Business Intelligence capabilities, which will help businesses operate and take mission critical decisions efficiently.

TRADEPAQ provides a comprehensive CTRM solution for the softs, metals, and energy industries called TRADEPAQ:TRM enabling control, growth and compliance. It includes physical and future commodity trading, contract management, hedging, logistics, position management, financial accounting, P&L by contract, vessel, lot or shipment; and cash management.

TransGraph provides TransRisk, a market risk management solution. This product offers a multi-dimensional view of exposure and risk, which will help maximize operational efficiencies, optimize returns, quantify risks using VaR framework, implement various hedge and risk models, and simulate risks and scenarios. The breadth and rich functionality of the combined offering along with best project management practices is one of the most competitive solutions available in the commodities software space.

Mr. Nagaraj Meda, Chairman and Managing Director, TransGraph Consulting, said, “This partnership will enable the customers to access best of breed operational and analytical software at one place. The combined CTRM (Commodity Trading and Risk Management) solution will bring in operational efficiencies, process based work flow and will also enable the customers to implement various hedge models and their risk management policy along with extremely flexible limits and alerting mechanism. The n-tier architecture and easy flow in from one system to the other is highly decision enabling in nature. We are extremely happy and excited about the value creation for the customer from the partnership and the long standing experience and credibility of TRADEPAQ TRM LLC will enable us to access the Global markets.”

The impact to our clients needing global compliance is immediate and powerful asserts Warren Fisher, president TRADEPAQ TRM LLC. Linking physicals to futures with Lot level deferred accounting coupled with TransGraph’s Value at Risk (VaR) capabilities enables support for all current global compliance needs including IAS39, FAS133/157 and AS30. By adding a comprehensive Risk Simulation dimension to our offering along with intuitive Business Intelligence enables delivering the next generation CTRM solution for our industry.

About TRADEPAQ TRM LLC

TRADEPAQ TRM LLC is a global provider of supply chain execution, trade and risk management software for the commodities industry. Its flagship product, TRADEPAQ:TRM, is enterprise software for commodity trading, distribution, and producing firms that want to better control their financial and physical supply chains. TRADEPAQ offers an innovative framework of solutions including contract management, compliance, exposure and risk analysis, logistics, warehouse and inventory management, document preparation, cash management, financial settlement, and trade chain collaboration. The company focuses on the needs of Traders, Producers, and Distributors of physical and financial commodities.

TRADEPAQ TRM LLC is part of a global company software group founded in 1978 with over 400 employees and 1000+ customers. Headquartered in the New York area, TRADEPAQ has global offices in the Netherlands, Bogotá, and Mumbai. For more information please visit www.tradepaqtrm.com

JustCommodity Software Solutions and TransGraph Consulting partner to market a complete Commodities Trading and Risk Management solutions.
August 1, 2009
TransGraph Consulting Pvt Ltd, a leading Commodity Consulting and Risk Management solutions company based out of India has partnered with Just Commodity Software Solutions Pte Ltd, a leading Commodity Trading Solution provider in South East Asia for More....

JustCommodity Software Solutions and TransGraph Consulting partner to market a complete Commodities Trading and Risk Management solutions.

(August 1, 2009) –TransGraph Consulting Pvt Ltd, a leading Commodity Consulting and Risk Management solutions company based out of India has partnered with Just Commodity Software Solutions Pte Ltd, a leading Commodity Trading Solution provider in South East Asia for implementing a comprehensive Commodity Trading and Risk Management Solutions for commodity trading, processing and manufacturing companies.

Seamless integration of Just Commodity’s flexible Commodity Trading and Operational Risk Management system “ContraXcentral”, with “TransRisk”, a market risk management solution will provide 360 degree view of operations, maximizes operational efficiencies, optimizes returns, quantify risks using VaR framework, implement various hedge and risk models, simulate risks and scenarios.

These two systems will empower end to end transaction management, business intelligence through decision making dashboards.

Just Commodity and TransGraph aim to collaborate and bring the best business practices in trading, business processes to organizations globally with quick turnaround to deliver a complete “best of breed” solution.

“We are geared to provide a world-class solution with a lower TCO for the industry. Our partnership with Transgraph clearly gives us an edge to focus on our core competencies which are Contract Management and Operational Risk just to name a few. We are set to craft new standards in the CTRM domain”. Said Mr. Joel Lou, EVP, Business Development and Director of JustCommodity.

Mr.Nagaraj Meda, Chairman and Managing Director of TransGraph Consulting expressed: “We are proud to be associated with Just Commodity for implementing our Risk Management Solution to our clients. Based on @Risk framework, a widely accepted global standard for measuring and decomposing risk, TransRisk, a decision-enabling Business Intelligence tool helps measure and manage risk. Our partnership with JC vouches the fact that in the current volatile global commodity markets, organizations need to have a comprehensive Trading and Risk Management solutions for optimizing their operations and manage their risks effectively.

About Just Commodity

JustCommodity is by far the leading provider of business solutions and professional services focused in the commodities sector, with particular emphasis on Soft and agricultural commodities.

JustCommodity has the expertise and the software solution to help organizations make the right moves. With its keen understanding of commodity trading needs, JustCommodity’s core product, ContraXcentral™, offers a full suite of modules, which can be effectively implemented into many key workflow processes.

Asian Agri chooses Just Commodity’s CTRM System to streamline and seamlessly integrate their business processes and manage operational risk.
September 1, 2009
TransGraph Consulting Pvt Ltd, a leading Commodity Consulting and Risk Management solutions company along with its partner Just Commodity Software Solutions, the leading solution provider of Commodity Trading in South East Asia, announced today that Asian Agri More....

Asian Agri chooses Just Commodity’s CTRM System to streamline and seamlessly integrate their business processes and manage operational risk.

Singapore (September 1, 2009) – TransGraph Consulting Pvt Ltd, a leading Commodity Consulting and Risk Management solutions company along with its partner Just Commodity Software Solutions, the leading solution provider of Commodity Trading in South East Asia, announced today that Asian Agri, has selected TransRisk and ContraXcentral™ to manage its commodity operations, market and operation risk.

Asian Agri is one of the major players in palm oil plantations and trading in Southeast Asia. Its downstream activities include refining and manufacturing of edible oil products.Ranked as one of Asia’s largest primary producers of crude palm oil (CPO), Asian Agri manages a total of 160,000 hectares of oil palm plantations in Sumatra, Indonesia (including 60,000 ha in partnership with smallholders under the Plasma/KKPA schemes) and 19 palm oil mills with a production capacity of more than one million tonnes of CPO annually. Downstream, Asian Agri operates four refineries processing CPO into end-products.

Believing that production and use of palm oil must be done in a sustainable manner based on economic, social and environmental viability, PT Inti Indosawit Subur, a member of the Asian Agri family, is a member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), a global multi-stakeholder initiative that promotes growth and use of sustainable palm oil.

TransRisk, a market risk management solution provides Asian Agri with a robust, customizable and stable commodity risk management solution. It derives net exposures based on the business process and allows users to have single accurate, view of exposures, mark to market P&L and Value-at-Risk (VaR) cross the organization, thereby bettering the synchronization of business strategies, addressing internal audit requirements in managing risk and compliance.

Mr.Nagaraj Meda, MD, TransGraph opines that the solution will help Asian Agri to identify and mitigate market risk through slicing and dicing the commodity portfolio risk and users are able to view the risk in various dimensions ensuring timely placement of limits based on alerts and having better control and timely intervention.

The complete solution will benefit Asian Agri through better control and decision support centering around Operational and Market Risk Management as the primary focus” says Mr. Joel Lou, EVP, Business Development and Director of Just Commodity.

ContraXcentral™ is developed to improve efficiency, allowing users to focus on their core competencies. By identifying areas which require the consolidation of information, ContraXcentral™ intelligently creates reports and alerts based on information. Data is thus communicated accurately, keeping mistakes and eliminating time-consuming errors.

About TransGraph Consulting

TransGraph Consulting is a pioneer in ‘Market Analysis & Price Outlook’ and ‘Price Risk Management’ services and providing knowledge based decision enabling services to clients spread across the globe. TransGraph strength and expertise lie in the areas of Price Analysis and Forecasting, Statistical Analysis & Econometric Modeling, Risk Analysis, Quantification and Mitigation, Value Chain Assessment, Trading Advisory, Procurement and Supply Chain Metrics, and Risk Management Software solutions.

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Testimonials

“ I am writing to extend my thanks for the research and price forecasting services provided to us on a daily basis by Transgraph. The reports and information whether they are emailed to us daily or sourced via your website portal, are a consistent and reliable source of quality information. Our industry is one where information and its dissemination can help in differentiating between suppliers."

- Scott Yarwood, Sr. Regional Sales Manager, ADM Trading (UK) Ltd.

“ This is to state our appreciation for Transgraph for continuously delivering on its mandate to provide updated and insightful consulting services in the area of commodities and ingredients. I would also like to thank your team that is always in touch with buyers and feeds in relevant information that has been many times useful in decision making. In nutshell, the engagement with Transgraph has been enriching."

- V. Sridhar, Sector Manager, Commodities & Ingredients, Cadbury India Ltd.

“ By helping simulate the risk scenarios beforehand, TransRisk has added immense value to our trading decision making process at the operating level. The scenarios are comprehensive because one is able to view the basis and rollover risks associated with the hedged positions too. TransRisk also serves as good Dashboard for the top management, as it gives exposures, P&L, associated risk, limits all at one place.”

- S Sivakumar, CEO, Agri Business, ITC Limited

“ At risk framework and imputed risk model of TransRisk are definitely forward looking and will enable us to move away from ‘post mortem’ approach. We can take a business decision of pricing our contracts or purchasing in advance after factoring in a quantifiable and acceptable risk instead of trying to find reasons for the breach of limits."
"A flexible and scalable business intelligence that gives exposures, P&L, associated risk, limits all at one place and this decision support system can be integrated with our existing ERP and will avoid duplication of data entry.”

- Jude Magima, ED – Sourcing and Supply Chain, Dabur India Limited

“ Transgraph has showcased that ‘Risk Management’ is an excellent tool which will help any sourcing organization to deliver in any and even during challenging business scenario. They have succeeded in creating a deeper, specific and relevant input to the automotive sector. Highly recommended, the course was extremely detailed but the faculty made it so easy to understand - Top marks.”

- S.R. Rajan, Vice President-Commercial, TVS Srichakra Limited.

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