Essent Xpress

TAKING THE MARKET TO THE NEXT LEVEL

 Essent Trading – A History of Innovation

Developing the
Gas Business

2 million
customers

Zebra EPE
Pipeline Storage

LNG Terminal
Eemshaven

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 Essent Trading – A History of Innovation

Diverse Power Asset Portfolio

Coal
Gas &
Nuclear

Bioliquids Wind
In oil tanks Portfolio

Solid
Biomass

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 Essent Trading – A History of Innovation

Prop Trading Expertise

Strong Prop
P&L Growth

#1 Europe Tradefloor
Gas Trader 0-200 in 6
2004 years

Best Talent
from Commodity
and Banks

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 Essent Trading – A History of Innovation

B2B Solution Provider

NS– Largest
deal
in Benelux

Wider Commodities
Komstrom Scope

Merchant Services
Range

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 Essent Trading – A History of Innovation

With Our Strong Asset Position

&
A History of Trading Performance

IT’S TIME TO TAKE THE MARKET TO THE NEXT LEVEL

EssentXpress

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Welcome to Essent Xpress…

Essent Xpress is an online

trading system ...

Designed to help in trading

various products and
commodities with partners…

Available through our website

HTTP://WWW.ESSENTTRADING.COM …

Or directly at
ESSENTXPRESS.ESSENTTRADING.COM

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Walkthrough of Essent Xpress
 Essent Xpress Trading
Floor view

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 Emerging
Investments Sales Asset
Spreads
Markets HedgingHedging

Different partners have

different needs and
different trading focus.
At Essent,
one size does not fit all

Trading Floor Tabs

makes it easy to
select the trading
floor of interest

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 Asset
Hedging

WHO
2. Merchant energy businesses
3. Large utilities
Tolling
4. Niche IPP’s
5. Aggressive municipals
Virtual
Storage visit the Asset Hedging Floor.

Virtual
Transport

WHY
Retail
Lock-in 2. Hedge assets for
price protection
4. Protect stable cash flows
5. Diversify crosscommodity
asset portfolio

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 Sales
Hedging

WHO
2. Sophisticated large
I&C companies
• B2B aggregators
Index
Linked • Progressive municipals
visit the Sales Hedging Floor.

Quality
Conversion

WHY
Collars,
Caps, Hedging sales and supply
Floors services to
• Protect sales performance
• Ensure superior product
offerings

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 Spreads

WHO
• Merchant energy businesses
Spark, Dark, • Banks
Black
• Commodity Traders
Spreads
visit the Spreads Floor.
Time
Spreads

Location
Spreads

API2 v BAFA
Rheinschien v HFO WHY
Existing basis positions to
be hedged or traded

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 Investments

WHO
• Banks
Basket • Hedge Funds
Products • Financial Service companies
• Trading houses
visit the Investments Floor.
European
Wide
Indexes WHY
2. Hedging across the energy
asset class
Investment
4. Desiring exposure to a
in Wind
particular part of the value
chain
7. Interest in sophisticated
structured products
tracking price

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 Emerging
Markets

Solid Bio WHO

Products
Expanding Energy Companies
visit the Investments Floor.

Liquid Bio
Products

Bafa Coal WHY

• Hedging of illiquid products
• Trading infant markets
• Supporting new indices

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 Value Chain filter – allows you to
select Upstream, Midstream,
Downstream or Wholesale

The value chain filter

allows you to focus on the
area of the value chain
where you need solutions.

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 Timeframes
allows you to focus on a
specific time period
where you need solutions.

All tradable products by

timeframe

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 Single screen view of all
markets, with bids and
offers displayed side-by-
side in an easy to read grid
format

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 Market Activity – allows
you to track all your
actions and view a log of
trades happening on the
system giving you an idea
where exactly is the
market heading

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 Main Links – access
historical trading data,
view/change your
preferences

My Markets filter – Toolbar – intuitive controls

filters and displays only enable you to create,bids
your bids and offers and offers and execute
trades instantly

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Risk Management and Security

• EssentXpress can define risk ratings for counterparties

assigning buy, sell or view ratings for different
commodities

• EssentXpress can define security rights for different

traders – some traders can create/modify bids and
offers, some can only hit existing bids/offers and some
can only view bids/offers

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 EssentXpress
From
Essent Trading

TAKE THE MARKET TO THE NEXT LEVEL

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Supplemental Slides
Scenario 1 – Traders create bids/offers
 Create a bid or an offer
at a right-click of the
mouse

Create tab appears in

the Transactions area

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 Trader can modify, put
on hold and cancel bids
and offers

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Scenario 2 – Trading with counterparties
 Traders of counterparties
can accept a bid or an
offer at right click of a
mouse

Accept tab appears in the

Transactions area.
Trader has an option to hit/lift
partially, completely and build
on top of initially traded
volume

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 Trade flash on screens
of all connected users
helps highlight market
activity

Both the parties involved

in the trade notified of
the details of the trade
completed

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 Traders of counterparties
can negotiate a bid or an
offer at right click of a
mouse

Negotiate tab appears in

the Transactions area

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 Negotiation thread
history makes it easy
to track price
negotiations on the bid
or offer

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 Traders can view
transaction history for
details of all trades
done

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