Feature/Commodities
Capital thinking
Manuel Méndez aims to have BBVA among the first to qualify for Basel II’s advanced risk capital approaches.
Job moves
QUOTE OF THE MONTH: - “I have come to you with a problem – we need to outsource our balance-sheet funding” From an e-mail sent last year by John Rusnak to an unnamed counterparty, referring to his deep-in-the-money options trades, or ‘synthetic loans'.
Servicing the e-industry
Investing in IT infrastructure development is essential in today’s often fractured environment of rival software languages and specific trading needs. Clive Davidson discovers what is on offer to bring these disparate elements together
Scaling the wall
Corporate hedging
Talent spotting
Ronald Neumunz tells Jeff Benjamin why LJH is drawn to Europe and how the company plans to capitalise on the emerging hedge fund management talent
'The Day the Bubble Burst'
By Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts (1979)
Drivers of dollar swap spreads
Fixed0income strategy
Squeezing the best from hedge fund diversification
Hedge fund investing
Merchants’ Exchange expands into energy futures
The Merchants’ Exchange, the tiny St Louis-based independent trying to make a niche for itself in electronic commodity derivatives trading, is to list six new energy futures contracts.
Weather risk solutions
Germany
Opening up Germany’s gas market
Germany
Two hubs or one?
Germany
At the heart of Europe
Germany
Controlling power
Germany
Out on its own
Germany