Spark Commodities
Prahashini Kunapalan currently serves as the Head of Legal & Compliance and Head of Risk & Compliance at Spark Commodities since September 2022, while also holding the position of Senior Legal & Compliance Manager and Senior Risk & Compliance Manager at Kpler since July 2023. Previous experience includes roles as Compliance Lead and DMLRO at VertoFX from March 2021 to August 2022, and Risk & Compliance Manager at Fastmarkets from April 2017 to November 2020, where Prahashini established a successful risk and compliance framework and achieved IOSCO assurance. Additional experience encompasses a paralegal position at the Financial Conduct Authority focused on enforcement and market oversight from November 2014 to April 2017, and as an Executive Officer at the Government Legal Service managing judicial review applications from December 2011 to October 2014. Educational qualifications include a Global MBA from Gisma University of Applied Sciences and several legal certifications.
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Spark Commodities
Established in 2019 and backed by Kpler, EEX and ICE, Spark Commodities is focused on providing technology-based solutions that promote liquidity in commodity markets, starting with LNG. With a strong technical background, support from over 200 industry players, and market leading shareholders the company provides robust indices and market transparency tools that allows the market to manage price risk while benefiting from the increased levels of transparency. Spark’s first set of indices (LNG Freight), underpinning the ICE LNG Freight Futures, were listed at the end of Q1 2021. These were followed by the SparkNWE and SparkSWE cargo assessments for European LNG which were listed in December 2022. Most recently Spark has launched Access, designed to help energy and financial market players to understand European LNG terminal pricing and slot availability as cargo flows continue to shift.