Feature/Commodities

Strategic shortcomings

A survey of 13 private banks’ risk management practices reveals some dangerous shortcomings. Lisa Kastigar of Sherwood Alliance, a Switzerland-based financial consulting firm, examines the challenges for risk managers at these institutions

Clearing the obstacles

Credit quality is essential to every energy firm’s success, as recent problems at Aquila and Dynegy attest. Couple this with the post-Enron threat of increased regulation for OTC energy derivatives and it is clear that the energy trading market needs…

From strategy to tactics

Effective tactical use of risk management information has long been an aspiration of many organisations, but technical obstacles have stood in the way. In this third of four articles on integrated credit risk management, David Rowe argues that the…

Brent’s liquidity crisis

The decision by energy information provider Platts to alter the definition of its Brent benchmark price has forced the issue over the crude blend’s liquidity problems, reports Matt Horsbrugh

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