Geneva, Switzerland – 18 March 2026 – Sparta today announced Ascend to Clarity, a major platform upgrade designed to strengthen the forward view for oil trading desks, from structured curves and arbitrage to freight economics and data access across the full stack.
Ascend to Clarity represents a coordinated expansion of the Sparta platform: enhancing existing tools, introducing new market workflows, deepening in-house analytics capabilities, and unlocking full data access across the stack.
“Conviction comes from seeing change early and understanding it in context,” said Tom Gorenbar Peled, Chief Product Officer at Sparta. “We’ve strengthened the core architecture first, and that foundation allows traders to identify structural shifts sooner and act with confidence. In markets moving at the speed of today’s geopolitical environment, that foundation is the only way to act with conviction.”
Strengthening the forward curve framework
Ascend to Clarity enhances Sparta’s Curves layer with Rolling Front Month functionality for arbs and expanded Time Spreads.
This upgrade enables desks to analyse tradable structures consistently across time, aligning outright and arbitrage views within a single, structured forward framework. For traders, this means clearer continuity in forward relationships and greater consistency in positioning decisions.
Expanding into freight economics: the Freight DPP Dashboard
When freight and cargo markets are moving in lockstep with geopolitical disruption, the cost of misalignment is immediate.
The release introduces the Freight DPP Dashboard, bringing vessel supply, route economics, and crude context into one connected workflow.
Freight and crude desks can now assess supply, demand, and route competitiveness together, reducing reliance on fragmented spreadsheets and disconnected freight calculations. By integrating freight economics directly into the forward trading view, Sparta expands the analytical perimeter of the oil desk.
Rebuilding in-house arbitrage capability
Arbitrage workflows are now consolidated into a new unified Arbs Dashboard, bringing exploration, methodology transparency, and historical context into one modular view.
Diesel Custom Arbs allow desks to reflect their own assumptions directly in live arbs. Expanded arb coverage strengthens diesel, jet, and naphtha visibility across regions. A rebuilt dashboard removes fragmented tables and playgrounds, replacing them with one scalable foundation for analysis and future sandboxing.
Signals: market change, surfaced in real time
Ascend to Clarity introduces Sparta Arb Signals, a new alerting layer that detects meaningful structural change and pushes it directly to traders, with context, history, and impact.
Arb Signals convert complex arbitrage dynamics into real-time market signals, surfacing changes in arb states and blend margins as they occur.
Unlocking full data access: Sparta Data Marketplace
With Ascend to Clarity, Sparta further expands its Data Marketplace, enabling clients to retrieve the full breadth of platform data via API or bulk download.
Trading houses, hedge funds, and banks can integrate structured physical and financial oil market data directly into proprietary models, dashboards, and automation workflows.
Powered by more than five years of partnerships with over 30 brokerages and data providers, Sparta delivers a single, standardised data pipe designed for risk management, compliance, and AI-driven analysis across physical and paper markets.
Ascend to Clarity rolls out across Sparta Curves, Knowledge, and Intelligence, reinforcing Sparta’s position as a connected trading intelligence platform built specifically for global oil markets.
