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A downward spiral?
Markets
Trading spreads
Ray Eyles, JP Morgan's CEO for European commodities, a 20-year market veteran, speaks to Roderick Bruce about the bank's continued expansion in commodity markets during challenging times for the banking sector
Phoenix rises into green markets
Interdealer broker expands in to renewables and emissions markets to harness sector growth, and plans to act as a counterparty for RECs
Sectoral CDM proposals spark debate
In the run up to key climate negotiations in Copenhagen in December the EU has surprised the carbon market with vehement backing of a redesigned CDM. Roderick Bruce investigates
Accounting boards: Spain's dynamic provisioning not the way forward
International accounting standard setters have warned that accounting for dynamic provisioning – rainy-day funds banks build up in good times to absorb losses in economic downturns – should not be recorded against profit and loss (P&L), as it is in Spain.
European utility CEOs aim for carbon-neutral power by 2050
Sixty European electricity company CEOs have handed over a declaration to EU energy commissioner Andris Piebalgs in which they pledge to supply carbon-neutral power by 2050.
Interview - Forward market thinking
Richard Sandor, chairman and chief executive officer of the Chicago Climate Exchange, pioneered the first ever emissions trading scheme in the late 1980s for acid rain, drawing on his experience in launching interest rate futures 20 years earlier. He…
Paul Newman
To celebrate its 15th anniversary this year, Energy Risk brings you interviews with the veterans who have helped shape today's energy markets. Paul Newman, oil derivatives pioneer and managing director of Icap Energy, discusses the past 15 years in…
CFTC names Chilton head of energy committee
Bart Chilton, one of four commissioners at the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, took charge of the regulator's energy markets advisory committee yesterday.