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Despite the vicious price volatility continuing to rain blows upon American and European energy markets, Barclays Capital recently moved to begin trading in UK Power. When deciding how to approach commodity trading, the bank turned to software maker Openlink to provide the sophisticated trading platform and infrastructure. The system-called Endur-is a fully- featured front- and back-office system that provides Barclays everything from market information and modeling to physical transactions and back-office processing. The product is designed to give the bank a means to efficiently trade energy and other commodities products across markets around the world. About 30 clients in 65 locations trade commodities using the Endur platform. Officials at Barclays Capital declined to comment on both Endur and their involvement in UK Power. The Openlink platform supports trading and risk management operations in power, natural gas, oil, and metals markets. Barclays has been using versions of Endur since 1997, when it brought in the system to power the bank's metals trading activities. The bank plans to begin trading UK Gas and European Power and Gas using Endur in the near future. Katy Birch, a spokeswoman for Openlink, says the system plugs into other front- and back-office systems in the marketplace, adding both efficiency to trading operations and liquidity to commodities markets. Though the system is not Web-based, "it is a quite configurable system," Birch says.