BCG’s Antti Belt gives insight on how traditional leaders can combat new digital players encroaching on their turf by thinking how they want to compete, which small digital projects they can launch, and scaling their best projects fast.

Antti Belt leads The Boston Consulting Group's offering in digital commodity trading. He is also Helsinki lead for the energy sector and analytics.

Since joining BCG in 2007, Antti has worked with oil industry supermajors, NOCs, traders, oil marketers, merchant traders, utilities, agricultural, and mining players on key issues related to trading strategy, analytics, and operating models. The current focus of his work is on digital transformation of commodities trading.

Antti has also developed several trading algorithms and deployed machine learning models in power, gas, renewable energy, oil, and cross-assets. He is the lead author of BCG research on digitalization of commodity trading and is a frequent speaker in industry events and in the financial press.

Before joining BCG, Antti ran his own trading business which focused on creating quantitative trading strategies for hedge funds, as well as running proprietary trading activities.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • Leads BCG's research on the digitalization of commodity trading
  • Oil and gas
  • Utilities
  • Big data and analytics
  • Renewable energy
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Metals and mining

EDUCATION

  • MSc, finance, Helsinki School of Economics
  • BSc, finance, Helsinki School of Economics

Publications and Videos

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Mastering Digitized Commodity Trading

By making smart moves and adopting the right business model, companies can mitigate the risks and capture the upside of digitization.
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A Reality Check for Blockchain in Commodity Trading

Blockchain might not be the panacea some anticipate. But the hype surrounding it could drive attention and solutions to the problems that plague commodity trading.
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Capturing Commodity Trading’s $70 Billion Prize

Digital forces are transforming commodity trading’s value chain and sources of competitive advantage, redistributing billions of dollars in trading value in the process.
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Attack of the Algorithms: Value Chain Disruption in Commodity Trading

Digital forces are deconstructing commodity trading’s value chain—and, in the process, changing what it takes for traders to succeed.
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Hyperliquidity: A Gathering Storm for Commodity Traders

The trend toward hyperliquidity in commodity markets is creating an environment increasingly removed from commodity traders’ comfort zone.
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