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PRAs under attack amid market manipulation investigations
Price reporting agencies (PRAs) are facing intense scrutiny from regulators, amid renewed allegations that their widely used price indexes are being manipulated by unscrupulous energy traders. Will the...
GDF Suez Trading is already used to coping with financial rules that are soon to be extended to many more European energy traders. Its chief risk officer, Nico Van Wayenbergh, speaks to Gillian Carr
The design and optimisation of a successful commodity hedging programme requires solid backtesting that meets the needs of different business functions. Using a recent case study, Carlos Blanco and Tamir...
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Gas market participants rail against mandatory bundling
The Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators hopes a new network code on capacity allocation will promote a more efficient and open gas market in Europe. But market participants warn the principle of mandatory bundling embedded in the code could...
Cutting edge: Minimising risk when hedging crude oil options
In this paper, Christian-Oliver Ewald, Roy Nawar and Tak Kuen Siu study the performance of locally risk-minimising hedging strategies in the context of futures and options written on crude oil. In contradiction to prior research, the authors show it is...
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Energy market participants upbeat about development of California emissions market, despite legal threats
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