Commodities
People: Genco opens Singapore office, hires head of major bulks
Recent changes at dry cargo, gas trading and gold market participants, among others
Are failure indexes fair play?
Regulators must clarify stance on trading off big-data forecasts of outages, writes energy consultant
Onus to check swap data should be on counterparties – SDRs
CME, Ice and DTCC oppose duty to reach out to non-reporting party for data verification
Energy and commodities voice broking will never die
OTC markets may be under siege, but they won’t disappear, writes Mark Earthey
Monthly credit data review: energy sector firing on all cylinders
Bank-sourced credit data shows rising confidence about oil and gas firms
Ferc urged to prop up illiquid natural gas indexes
A lack of willing price reporters is eroding confidence in key benchmarks
Using derivatives to forecast oil scenarios
Generating probability-weighted oil price scenarios from traded derivatives prices can help risk managers in the industry
Energy Risk Asia Awards 2017 open for entries
Awards set out to recognise achievements across Asian energy and commodity markets
Ferc’s Collins defends manipulation rule
US energy market watchdog is “serious” about its surveillance role
CFTC to review swap data reporting regulations
Rule changes could be proposed as early as fourth quarter of 2017
Commodity swap data goes from bad to worse
Lack of regulatory guidance, collaboration and market confusion continue to plague SDR reports
Commodities firms fear EBA’s inappropriate capital charges
Energy lobbying overlooked as proposed regime threatens vigorous demands
FRTB standardised approach threatens commodity hedging
Basel language would force unnatural treatment of offsetting positions
The Dark Ages: US and EU unite in position limit vagaries
Regulators’ inactivity infuriates commodities markets
Lessons from the Mortician: volatility modulation
Paul Tudor Jones II, Santhanam Nagarajan and Dario Villani show how to use volatility modulation
Cloud control
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Kaminski: discounting for energy swaps ‘a big mess’
Energy Risk USA: most energy firms still prefer Libor for discounting
Energy Risk Awards 2017: The winners
SocGen, Citi and BP among those recognised as commodities markets stabilise
Consultancy of the year: PwC
Energy Risk Awards 2017: PwC's world-class capabilities felt across commodities
Ferc’s Collins dismisses algo trading fears
Energy Risk USA: surveillance chief says HFT is yet to take hold in the power and gas markets
Managing energy market volumetric risk
Krzysztof Wolyniec presents a volumetric risk management model for energy markets
Redemptions focused within strategies suffering losses in 2016
Redemptions focused within strategies suffering losses in 2016
Mifid malfunction: Brexit breaks data foundations
Removing the UK from EU markets could derail new European trading and transparency rules
Natural hedges: swapping the City for New Zealand
After a decade in forex sales, Tony Beard now advises a Maori tribe on hedging