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HarqEnergy: Powering a brighter tomorrow

One trading platform. Front to back.

Commodity trading and risk management for oil, gas, power and beyond. HarqEnergy runs the whole trade lifecycle on one data authority: trade capture, credit, valuation, end-of-day P&L, Greeks, value at risk and settlement. Built in Houston by PayDsecure Inc. for energy companies everywhere.

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About HarqEnergy

A complete CTRM and ETRM, built for how energy desks actually work.

HarqEnergy (Hedging · Analytics · Risk · Quant) is an event-driven commodity trading and risk management platform. One trading platform, one data authority and one risk engine serve every desk, from the trader's ticket to the general ledger.

Front office

Trade and price with confidence

  • Trade capture for swaps, futures, options and cargoes
  • Live forward curves and market snapshots
  • Pre-trade credit answer on every ticket
  • Blotter, positions and delta ladder
Middle office

Control risk before it grows

  • Ten-check credit gate and approval queue
  • End-of-day valuation with P&L explain
  • VaR 95/99, Expected Shortfall, stress tests
  • Limits, concentration and tenor controls
Back office

Settle cleanly, every time

  • Confirmations from the booked trade
  • Invoices, net settlements and netted payments
  • Ledger postings for finance
  • Tamper-evident audit for auditors
Quant and analytics

See what drives the book

  • Black-76 option pricing
  • Greeks by index and delivery month
  • Correlated Monte Carlo and price fans
  • Power BI and Excel exports

Trade lifecycle

The whole trade lifecycle, on one record

Front office, middle office and back office work from the same trade, the same prices and the same audit trail. Nothing is re-keyed between desks.

  1. Front office

    Pre-trade

    Forward curves, pricing and the credit answer on screen before the trader commits.

  2. Front office

    Capture

    Swaps, futures, options and physical cargoes booked once, with every version kept.

  3. Middle office

    Credit and approval

    Ten ordered checks. Amber trades go to a credit officer; red trades are blocked and recorded.

  4. Middle office

    Valuation and end of day

    Mark-to-market against curves and fixings, with a P&L explain that adds up to the cent.

  5. Middle office

    Risk and Greeks

    Delta, gamma, vega, theta and rho, Monte Carlo value at risk, Expected Shortfall and stress tests.

  6. Back office

    Confirm

    Confirmations generated from the booked trade, matched against the counterparty's.

  7. Back office

    Invoice and settle

    Swaps settle net per month, cargoes are invoiced gross after delivery, payments are netted.

  8. Back office

    Account and report

    Ledger postings, Power BI and Excel exports, and a tamper-evident audit chain for every step.

HarqQuant Engine: quant, risk and forecasting

Greeks, value at risk and P&L you can explain to the board.

HarqQuant Engine is the quantitative engine inside HarqEnergy. It measures the sensitivities and tail risk of the book HarqCore values every night. Every number traces back to a trade, a curve and a fixing, and states the method and version that produced it.

Greeks
Delta, gamma, vega, theta and rho by bump-and-revalue, so every instrument is treated the same way. Delta ladders show exactly where on the curve the book is long or short.
Value at risk
Correlated Monte Carlo across indexes, 1-day and 10-day VaR at 95% and 99%, Expected Shortfall and what-if stress scenarios.
P&L explain
New deals + price move + volatility move + time and carry = daily P&L, to the cent.
Verification and hedging
Desk prices checked against an independent source, risk split by benchmark, and a recommended futures hedge in whole lots.
Forecasting
Price ranges checked against their own track record today; machine-learning curve, volume and imbalance forecasts on the roadmap.

Option pricer, Brent futures (Black-76)

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Premium per barrelUSD 6.12
Delta
0.47
Gamma
0.021
Vega
0.23
Theta /day
-0.017
Rho
-0.03

Illustration only, with a 4% discount rate. Vega per volatility point, rho per 1% rate move. In the platform the same model runs on your curves and volatilities.

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Every ticket answers one question first: can we take this risk?

Pick a counterparty and move the trade size. HarqEnergy shows how much of the credit line is used now, what this trade adds, and the decision.

  • Clear trades book straight away.
  • Amber trades go to a credit officer, with the reason.
  • Red trades are blocked and recorded.

Brent swap, January to June

Example companies

Within limit. Book it.

Used now
71.0%
After this trade
84.7%
This trade uses
USD 4.1M

    Simplified for this page. The platform runs ten ordered checks on every trade.

    Crude oil tanker at sea at blue hour

    One record, front to back

    Every cargo. Every counterparty. One answer.

    Swaps and physical cargoes share one credit view, so a trader never books against a limit someone else already used.

    Why HarqEnergy

    What changes on the desk

    Most trading teams learn about a credit problem after the deal is done. HarqEnergy moves that answer to the moment of decision.

    Today, in most trading systems
    With HarqEnergy

    Credit is checked after booking, by email, phone or spreadsheet.

    A live credit answer

    Checks run as the trader fills in the ticket, so the answer is on screen before booking.

    Approvals wait in inboxes and nobody can see where they stand.

    Approvals with a clear owner

    Trades that need approval go straight to the credit officer's queue, and every decision records who made it and why.

    The same person can capture and approve a trade if a step is skipped.

    Segregation of duties, enforced

    The rule lives in the database. A trader can never approve their own deal, whatever screen or script they use.

    History can be edited, and finding what changed takes days.

    Records that prove themselves

    Every action joins a fingerprinted chain, so any change to past records shows up the moment the trail is checked.

    Modules and commodities

    Three engines. A module for every commodity desk.

    Three engines run every desk: HarqCore captures, checks and values each trade; HarqQuant Engine measures the risk; HarqLedger confirms, invoices, settles and posts. Each module shares the same trade record, credit engine, valuation and audit trail, so adding a commodity never means adding another system.

    HarqCore

    The core engine

    Captures every trade, runs the credit check before it is booked, and values the book each night on one record shared by every desk.

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    HarqCore holds the trade record, the instrument model, forward curves, the ten-step pre-trade credit check and end-of-day valuation with a P&L explain. It ships as a Java library your developers can embed in your own systems.

    Full module documentation is proprietary and available to licensed clients and HARQ Energy University students.

    HarqQuant Engine

    The quantitative engine

    Measures the risk of the book HarqCore values: Greeks, value at risk, price verification, hedge recommendations and early warnings.

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    Bump-and-revalue sensitivities across every instrument, correlated Monte Carlo on a factor model, 95% and 99% VaR, Expected Shortfall, price fans and what-if stress scenarios such as Brent +10%. It also checks desk prices against an independent source, splits risk by benchmark, recommends a futures hedge, estimates expected credit loss and raises alerts with the figures behind them.

    It is built in, so your risk team does not write SQL or run scripts. Every result states the market data, the method and the engine version that produced it, and the same inputs always give the same answer.

    Full module documentation is proprietary and available to licensed clients and HARQ Energy University students.

    HarqLedger

    The back-office engine

    Turns booked trades into confirmations, invoices, netted settlements and ledger postings, with end-of-day controls.

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    Financial swaps settle the net difference each month once it prices out; physical cargoes are invoiced gross after delivery; payments are netted by counterparty. End-of-day controls hold only the books whose inputs fail checks. Direct general ledger and SAP connections are on the roadmap.

    Full module documentation is proprietary and available to licensed clients and HARQ Energy University students.

    Modules by commodity

    C-Motion

    Crude oil and refined products

    Brent, WTI, Dubai/Oman swaps, futures and physical cargoes, fixed or floating priced.

    Crude available
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    Capture, credit, valuation and invoicing of crude swaps, futures, average-price options and FOB or CIF cargoes, with grade differentials and fixings. Refined products such as diesel, jet and gasoline follow on the same model.

    Full module documentation is proprietary and available to licensed clients and HARQ Energy University students.

    G-Motion

    Natural gas and LNG

    Henry Hub, TTF, NBP and JKM curves, swaps and options, valued every night.

    Pricing available
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    Gas and LNG positions are valued and risk-managed today. Nominations, scheduling, pipeline and imbalance management are on the roadmap, built on the same trade record.

    Full module documentation is proprietary and available to licensed clients and HARQ Energy University students.

    P-Motion

    Power

    Power trades by hour and block, with shaped curves and settlement.

    Roadmap
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    Hourly and block power trades, shaped forward curves, load-following deals, ISO settlement and imbalance charges, in the order our founding clients ask for them.

    Full module documentation is proprietary and available to licensed clients and HARQ Energy University students.

    Metals and agriculture

    Lithium, metals and agricultural commodities

    Lithium, base metals, grains and softs on the same CTRM model.

    Roadmap
    Learn more

    The instrument model is commodity-neutral, so metals such as lithium and agricultural products such as grains and softs reuse the same capture, credit, valuation and settlement engines.

    Full module documentation is proprietary and available to licensed clients and HARQ Energy University students.

    Settlement partner

    Settle cross-border with PayDsecure

    HarqEnergy's sister product PayDsecure is building secure cross-border B2B payments between the USA, China and Nigeria, paid only to verified company accounts.

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    For teams on legacy ETRM platforms

    Built by an ETRM architect. Familiar from day one.

    HarqEnergy is designed by an energy trading systems architect with more than 15 years on leading ETRM platforms. Portfolios, books, the deal lifecycle, end-of-day runs and settlements work the way your desks already think.

    Run alongside

    Start with one desk or one commodity while your current CTRM keeps running, with trade and price events streamed between the two.

    Roadmap

    Move in phases

    Migrate book by book, with a parallel run and reconciled P&L before each cut-over. No big-bang go-live.

    Implementation service

    Train fast

    A HARQ Energy University track maps the concepts of your current CTRM to their HarqEnergy equivalents.

    In development

    Integration

    One unifying model. Every system you already run plugs in.

    At the centre is one canonical model for trades, counterparties, curves, positions and settlements. Each connector translates to and from that model, so adding a new feed, database or legacy system never changes the core, and every system sees the same version of the truth.

    HarqCore canonical modelTrades · counterparties · curves · positions · settlements · audit

    Event streaming

    • Apache Kafka
    • Confluent Cloud
    • Amazon MSK and Azure Event Hubs

    Change data capture

    • Debezium transactional outbox
    • CDC from your existing databases

    Enterprise messaging

    • IBM MQ
    • JMS and AMQP (RabbitMQ)

    Market data

    • Bloomberg
    • ICE, CME and other exchanges
    • Platts and Argus price assessments

    Databases

    • PostgreSQL
    • Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server via JDBC
    • Cloud data warehouses

    Existing CTRMs

    • Legacy ETRM platforms through their own APIs
    • Other CTRMs through files and APIs

    APIs and the JVM

    • REST API with OAuth2
    • Java SDK for any JVM language
    • Event schemas for every message

    Reporting and ERP

    • Power BI and Excel
    • SAP and general ledger
    • Available now
    • In development
    • Roadmap

    Kafka is a trademark of the Apache Software Foundation; Bloomberg, IBM MQ and other names are trademarks of their owners. HarqEnergy is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.

    No surprises

    What's available, and what's next

    We separate what works today from what we are building, so you know exactly what you are buying.

    Available now

    Running in the platform today. Demos use sample market data until your feeds are connected.

    • Trade captureSwaps, futures, average-price options and physical crude cargoes
    • Pre-trade credit check and approvalsTen ordered checks; self-approval blocked
    • Forward curves and market snapshotsBrent, WTI, Dubai/Oman, JCC, Henry Hub, TTF, NBP, JKM
    • Valuation and end-of-day P&LWith an explain that adds up to the cent
    • Greeks and delta ladder
    • Monte Carlo VaR, Expected Shortfall and stress tests
    • Independent price verification and hedge recommendationsHarqQuant Engine
    • Expected credit loss, alerts and early warningsHarqQuant Engine; default assumptions are supplied by the client
    • Confirmations, invoices and netted settlements
    • Power BI and Excel exports
    • Tamper-evident audit and client data isolation

    In development

    Being built now, next in line.

    • Amend and cancel booked trades
    • Booked trades reserve their credit
    • Real-time event streaming to your other systems
    • Single sign-on with your company login
    • Approvals from your phone
    • Anomaly detection and smart reconciliation

    Roadmap

    Planned, in order of client demand.

    • Power, refined products, metals and agriculture
    • Gas scheduling, nominations and imbalances
    • Logistics and cargo scheduling
    • General ledger and SAP connections
    • Live market data feeds, including Bloomberg
    • Machine-learning price and volume forecasts
    • Coexistence connectors for existing CTRMs
    • SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 audits
    • Integration with your data governance platform
    • Multicloud hosting on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud
    • Disaster recovery and incident reporting
    • Producer reporting aligned with OPEC+ arrangements
    Offshore oil and gas platform at night

    Built for the whole value chain

    From the wellhead to the trading screen.

    Producers, refiners, traders, utilities and national oil companies run on the same principle: know your exposure before you commit.

    3offices on one trade record: front, middle, back
    5Greeks: delta, gamma, vega, theta, rho
    10ordered credit checks on every trade

    Security and control

    Controls built into the data

    The protections a risk committee asks about are enforced by the database itself.

    Company data isolation

    Each client's data is fenced off at the database level, on every query.

    Separate duties

    Whoever captures a trade cannot approve it. The database refuses it.

    Append-only decisions

    Approvals and credit decisions can be added but never rewritten.

    Fingerprinted audit chain

    Each record carries a SHA-256 link to the one before, so a break shows exactly where.

    Least-privilege access

    Traders, credit officers and auditors each see and do only what their role allows.

    Repeat-safe requests

    A credit check sent twice is answered once, so a network retry never double-counts exposure.

    Governance, compliance and cloud

    Ready for your auditors, your regulators and your cloud.

    HarqEnergy is led by a founder certified in CISM, CISA, CRISC, CDPSE and CCISO, so governance is designed in from the first line of code, not added before an audit.

    SOC 2

    SOC 2 Type II

    Controls designed to the Trust Services Criteria: security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality and privacy.

    Audit planned

    ISO

    ISO/IEC 27001

    An information security management system aligned to ISO 27001 Annex A, with ISO 27017 and 27018 for cloud and privacy.

    Certification planned

    GRC

    Governance, risk and compliance

    Segregation of duties, append-only decisions and a SHA-256 audit chain give your GRC team evidence on demand, with exports to your GRC tools.

    Audit evidence available

    Data governance

    Classification and data-loss prevention

    Classification, sensitivity labels and data-loss prevention for HarqEnergy data, under the data governance policies you already run.

    Roadmap

    Multicloud hosting

    Your cloud, ours, or on-premise

    Run on AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud, in your own tenant, hosted by PayDsecure, or in your data centre. Built on Java 21, PostgreSQL and Kafka, with no lock-in.

    Roadmap

    Cloud migration

    Move legacy CTRM to the cloud

    Assessment, secure landing zone, parallel run and cut-over, book by book, including legacy ETRM estates, with disaster recovery tested before go-live.

    Implementation service

    Certification status is shown here only once an independent audit is complete.

    AI and machine learning

    Intelligence built into every desk, under your control.

    HarqEnergy brings AI and machine learning into trading, risk and operations, governed so every model is approved, explainable and logged.

    Anomaly and fraud detection

    Flags unusual trades, prices, payments and user behaviour the moment they happen.

    In development

    Smart reconciliation

    Learns how your trades, confirmations and invoices match, and suggests the fix for each break.

    In development

    Ask HarqEnergy

    Plain-language questions such as "What is my Brent exposure for Q1?", answered from your own data.

    In development

    Price and curve forecasting

    Machine-learning forecasts for crude, gas, power and LNG curves, shown beside the market view.

    Roadmap

    Counterparty credit scoring

    Early-warning scores that combine payment history, exposure and market signals.

    Roadmap

    Volume and imbalance forecasting

    Predicts nominations and imbalances from weather and demand, before charges arrive.

    Roadmap

    Governed AI, no shadow AI. Every AI request runs through one controlled gateway: approved models only, client data masked, every prompt and answer logged for audit. Your data is never used to train models for anyone else.

    Training and certification

    HARQ Energy University

    Every user is trained and certified before receiving workspace credentials. Courses combine instructor-led sessions, self-paced study and hands-on labs in a demo workspace.

    Trader and front officeTrade capture, curves, pre-trade credit and positions.
    Risk, quant and middle officeValuation, P&L explain, Greeks, VaR and stress testing.
    Operations and back officeConfirmations, invoicing, settlement and the ledger.
    Developer and integrationREST API, Java SDK, event streaming and reporting.
    Administrator and securityRoles, segregation of duties, audit and data isolation.
    Legacy CTRM bridgeFor experienced CTRM users moving to HarqEnergy.

    Course materials are proprietary. Enrolment opens with a company licence.

    Licensed workspace

    See a glimpse here. The full workspace is for licensed clients only.

    HarqEnergy's dashboards, operational tools and functional modules are proprietary to PayDsecure Inc. and are not open source. Access is granted only to licensed companies and government agencies whose users have completed HARQ Energy University certification.

    HarqEnergy Workspace · Front officeSimulated data
    Brent forward curve, USD/bbl
    Positions, risk and P&L open to licensed clients only

    How to get access

    1. Book a demo

      Companies and government agencies tell us, from a company email address, about their markets and how they will use HarqEnergy. We do not take requests from individuals.

    2. Licence and due diligence

      We verify the applicant and sign a licence agreement and NDA.

    3. Training and certification

      Every user completes HarqEnergy training and certification.

    4. Secure credentials

      Only certified users receive credentials to the HarqEnergy workspace, with multi-factor sign-in.

    Already licensed and certified? Sign-in opens once your onboarding is complete.

    FAQ

    Questions energy companies ask us

    What is HarqEnergy?

    A commodity trading and risk management (CTRM/ETRM) platform from PayDsecure Inc. It covers the trade lifecycle from pre-trade credit and capture through valuation, risk, confirmation, settlement and accounting.

    Which commodities does it cover?

    Crude oil and natural gas and LNG pricing today. Refined products, power, metals such as lithium, and agricultural commodities are on the roadmap, built on the same engine.

    Who can request a demo?

    Companies only: energy producers, traders, refiners, utilities, banks, government agencies and consulting firms. Please write from your company email address. We do not accept demo requests from individuals or personal email addresses.

    How is HarqEnergy licensed?

    By subscription: monthly, yearly or pay-as-you-go, per company. Every user completes HARQ Energy University certification before receiving credentials.

    Can it run alongside our current CTRM?

    Yes, that is the intended path: start with one desk, stream trades and prices between systems, and migrate in phases with reconciled P&L.

    How is our data protected?

    Each client is isolated in the database itself, duties are separated so no one approves their own trade, decisions are append-only, and every record joins a SHA-256 audit chain. AI runs only through a governed gateway.

    Which systems does HarqEnergy connect to?

    Everything goes through one canonical model. Today: REST API, Java SDK, PostgreSQL, Power BI and Excel. In development: Kafka event streaming with Debezium change data capture. On the roadmap: Bloomberg and exchange market data, IBM MQ, Oracle and SQL Server, SAP, and connectors for legacy CTRM platforms.

    Is HarqEnergy SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certified?

    Not yet. Our controls are designed to SOC 2 and ISO 27001, and independent audits are planned. We will say so here only when they are complete.

    Where is HarqEnergy hosted?

    Your choice: AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud in your own tenant, hosted by PayDsecure, or on-premise. We also migrate existing CTRM workloads to the cloud in phases.

    Is the data on this website real?

    No. Figures, companies and routes on this site are illustrations. In the platform, everything runs on your own trades and market data.

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    Around the platform

    PayDsecure

    Cross-border B2B payments

    Secure company-to-company payments between the USA, China and Nigeria.

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    HARQ Energy University

    Training and certification

    Role-based courses and certificates for every HarqEnergy user.

    Learn more →

    Developers

    API and Java SDK

    REST API, Java SDK and Power BI exports for licensed integration teams.

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    "Traders should never have to wait until after a deal to find out whether they could take the risk."

    Olujide Stephen Adesina, founder. An energy trading systems architect with more than 15 years in the industry, based in Houston.

    ProducersSelling crude and gas with credit visibility on every buyer.
    TradersTaking positions knowing the line before the call ends.
    RefinersBuying cargoes with counterparty risk checked up front.
    National oil companiesClear controls and audit for every lifting, from the Americas to Africa's fast-growing producers.

    Book a demo

    See HarqEnergy on your own markets.

    Demos are for companies, groups, government agencies and consulting firms only. Email us from your company address with your company name, your role, the commodities you trade and the systems you use today. We reply within two business days. Founding clients get direct access to the team building HarqEnergy and founding-client terms.

    Phone, Houston+1 (518) 417-7482
    HarqEnergy: Powering a brighter tomorrow