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CME Group

As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, CME Group enables clients to trade futures, options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data – empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural products and metals. The company offers futures and options on futures trading through the CME Globex® platform, fixed income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the EBS platform. In addition, it operates one of the world's leading central counterparty clearing providers, CME Clearing. With a range of pre- and post-trade products and services underpinning the entire lifecycle of a trade, CME Group also offers optimization and reconciliation services through TriOptima, and trade processing services through Traiana.

PETROBRAS

We are a Brazilian company with over 40,000 employees committed to generate more value for our shareholders and the society, with a focus on oil and gas, with safety and respect for people and the environment. We are one of the largest producers of oil and gas in the world, primarily engaged in exploration and production, refining, energy generation and trading. We have a large proven reserve base and have acquired expertise in deep and ultra-deepwater exploration and production as a result of almost 50 years spent developing the Brazilian offshore basins, becoming world leaders in this segment.

Vortexa

Vortexa tracks more than $1.8 trillion of waterborne energy flows around the world - in real time. Vortexa’s intuitive platform provides leading energy trading and shipping companies with the most complete global data picture to empower them to identify and seize opportunities before others. The web-based platform shares highly detailed oil & gas products flows, produced by hard data, machine learning and state-of-the-art technology with oversight from in-house global industry experts providing real-world context to continually train and improve the models. Founded by Fabio Kuhn, former Head of Trading Technology and Analytics at BP, who serves as CEO, and Etienne Amic, former Head of European Energy at JP Morgan and Mercuria, who acts as Chairman, they have offices in London, Singapore, Houston and New York.

Kpler

Kpler is a fast-growing data and analytics company on a mission to facilitate sustainable and efficient trade, to meet the changing needs of our world. From numerous disparate and unstructured sources, Kpler creates data and analytics that bring transparency in dynamic markets characterised by opaque and incomplete information, such as commodity and power markets. Kpler delivers its unique offering through technology solutions built in an agile and inventive way, enabling market professionals to make informed and timely trading decisions. Kpler employs over 250 people across the world and its recent acquisitions include ClipperData (2021), JBC Energy and COR-e (2022).

The Port of Corpus Christi

As a leader in U.S. Crude Oil export ports and a major economic engine of Texas and the nation, Port Corpus Christi is the largest port in the United States in total revenue tonnage. Strategically located on the western Gulf of Mexico with a 36-mile, soon to be 54-foot (MLLW) deep channel, Port Corpus Christi is a major gateway to international and domestic maritime commerce. The Port has excellent railroad and highway network connectivity via three North American Class-1 railroads and two major interstate highways. With an outstanding staff overseen by its seven-member commission, Port Corpus Christi is “Moving America’s Energy.”

Refinitiv

Refinitiv, formerly the Financial & Risk business of Thomson Reuters, is one of the world’s largest providers of financial markets data and infrastructure, serving over 40,000 institutions in over 190 countries. With a dynamic combination of data, insights, technology, and news from Reuters, our customers can access solutions for every challenge, including a breadth of applications, tools, and content – all supported by human expertise. Refinitiv’s powerful and open single sign-on platform combines premium proprietary content, access to leading partners and end-to-end, multi-asset-class functionality to give your trading strategies a powerful edge throughout the entire workflow – pre-trade research, at-trade execution management and post-trade reporting.

ICE

ICE (NYSE: ICE) is a Fortune 500 company that designs, builds and operates digital networks to connect people to opportunity. We provide financial technology and data services across major asset classes that offer our customers access to mission-critical workflow tools that increase transparency and operational efficiencies. We operate exchanges, including the New York Stock Exchange, and clearing houses that help people invest, raise capital and manage risk across multiple asset classes. Our comprehensive fixed income data services and execution capabilities provide information, analytics and platforms that help our customers capitalize on opportunities and operate more efficiently.

ION Commodities

Automation positively transforms the lives of people and business. ION is reinventing the way business is done through innovations in automation technology. Our software improves decision-making, increases efficiency, simplifies complex processes, and empowers people. We’re transforming the world of commodities through innovation. ION Commodities solutions such as Aspect, Allegro, Openlink, RightAngle and TriplePoint put you in complete control – from procurement and trading all the way through risk management and delivery. That’s why many of the world’s biggest and best-known companies are partnering with ION to sharpen their decision-making and boost their productivity. No one understands commodities management like we do, and no one can meet your needs like we can. Discover what we can do for your commodities business today: commodities.iongroup.com.