Opinion/Commodities
UK power grid needs investment to keep lights on in future
Capacity crunch looms due to uncertainty and congestion, warns Genscape’s Dale
Energy stirs political passions around the globe
Keystone XL, Russia, position limits and the ‘big six’ draw strong views
Traders and politicians can learn from dead pilots
Trading portfolios are easily mishandled, as are Europe's economies
Market manipulation push is widening the compliance gap
Aggressive pursuit of wrongdoing harms market efficiency and competition
Commodity derivatives lead the way for OTC reform
Enron proved merits of bottom-up evolution, not change imposed from above
Oil prices collapse: assessing the ‘known unknowns’
Vincent Kaminski explores the potential dangers lurking in oil markets
Mifid II must recognise that commodities are different
EU law threatens to engulf commodities industry in financial rules
Knowing your territory is vital for energy firms
Poor local knowledge can lead to persecution at home and abroad
Energy exchanges can share the burden of Remit
EU insider trading rules are an opportunity to outsource reporting
Energy traders ignore legal risk at their peril
Legal risk can be disastrous but is hard to tackle, argues Kaminski
CFTC chairman offers hope to derivatives end-users
Massad’s CFTC appears to be moving away from mistakes of Gensler era
OTC energy derivatives did not cause the crisis
Post-crisis focus must be on solutions, not on apportioning guilt
Market manipulation won’t be stopped by Socrates or Spinoza
Graduates must be warned of the serious risks of market abuse
Renewables in Europe: A roadmap for fundamental reform
Efet board member calls for dramatic overhaul of subsidy regimes
Banks down, but not necessarily out, in commodities
Wall Street is cutting back, not quitting the market altogether
Energy markets need more than second-hand credit models
Financial models fall down in energy markets, argues Kaminski
Power capacity conundrum has potential to turn sour
EU and member states try to keep lights on in different ways
Commodity firms need a coping strategy for Mifid II
Implementation will only increase uncertainty, argues EEX COO
Ethics and moral standards are as crucial to finance as ever
Carney’s words echo work of Émile Zola on the value of social capital
Unfinished rules likely to cause continued hedging woes
Post-crisis laws are generating deep uncertainty for commodity market
TXU bankruptcy holds lessons for risk managers
‘This will never happen’ is no alternative to proper planning
Energy market has bright future, despite bad news
Poor liquidity and bank retreat mask energy market optimism