What changes when the spreadsheets come off the desk.
We're early, so we don't have customer results to publish and we won't dress up a logo wall. These are worked scenarios: situations physical traders describe to us, and how TradeX handles them. The figures are examples, not measured outcomes. We're selecting our first design partners now.
A 500 MT diesel cargo, Jebel Ali to Nhava Sheva
0.4%
Example outturn variance, auto-categorised
Same day
Landed cost visible for resale (example)
The situation
On a 500 MT diesel cargo moving from Jebel Ali to Nhava Sheva, freight, insurance, and outturn variance are tracked by hand across brokers, the shipping agent, and finance, so the margin on the trade is always a next-week estimate.
How TradeX handles it
TradeX tracks the cargo end to end: the purchase, the shipment milestones, the outturn on discharge, and the resale, all against the same trade record, with landed cost rolling up automatically.
What you see
Say 498 MT is delivered against 500 MT nominated. The 0.4% outturn variance is categorised and recorded as an adjustment automatically, with an audit trail, instead of being investigated by hand. If 300 MT is then resold, landed cost is already visible, so the markup is known the same day, not a week later.
A fuel trading desk that outgrew its spreadsheets
The situation
A desk grows from a handful of traders to a multi-desk operation while purchase, sales, and inventory stay spread across a dozen spreadsheets, and a single consolidated exposure report takes hours of manual compilation every time leadership asks for one.
How TradeX handles it
Contracts, inventory, and positions live on one system of record, replacing the spreadsheet-per-desk pattern with a shared, always-current view.
What you see
Consolidated exposure is available live instead of assembled by hand, and a new trader sees the full picture on day one instead of learning which spreadsheet is the current one.
A bunker supplier whose banks want a clean audit trail
The situation
Banks and credit-line partners increasingly want cleaner trade documentation and a real audit trail: industry-wide scrutiny after high-profile trade-finance losses has made document quality a condition of the relationship, not a courtesy. Assembling presentation-ready documents for a letter of credit can take days.
How TradeX handles it
Letters of credit and trade documents live in one audited system, with presentation deadlines and discrepancies tracked against each instrument instead of remembered by one person.
What you see
The documents a bank asks for are assembled from one place, and the audit trail is available on demand, not reconstructed from folders and email threads.
A petroleum distributor’s month-end reconciliation
The situation
Matching invoices, payments, and settlements against trades is a manual, end-of-month scramble that pulls finance staff off everything else for days at a time.
How TradeX handles it
Purchase and sales invoices, adjustment notes, and payments match against trades automatically, as part of the same system that captured the deal.
What you see
Month-end reconciliation becomes a review of exceptions, not a manual scramble, and finance time goes back to the things a spreadsheet can’t do.