Commodities/People
FAS 133: routine or ruinous?
The Association of Finance Professionals, a 14,000-strong group of corporate treasurers and finance officials, gave Risk an exclusive look at its just-completed member survey on the implementation and consequences of FAS 133. Two years after the…
Evolution Markets launches weather desk
New York-based environmental and energy broker Evolution Markets has returned to the weather derivatives sector with the launch of a weather desk, six years after it brokered its first over-the-counter weather deal.
Aquila finally buries energy trading business
Missouri-based energy trader Aquila today said that it has put the lid on the coffin of its energy trading division, following almost two months of speculation. In June, Aquila unveiled plans to wind down its trading book, but said it was looking for a…
How Japan got it covered
The fast-growing Japanese weather derivatives market is unique in both its product diversity and the range of small business end-users it serves. But where are the big players? Rob Dwyer reports
Success strategies
Since launching two strategy funds in 1999, ORN Capital has gone from strength to strength and is following up this success up with the launch of a European distressed debt strategy next month
Waiting for a boom
Weather derivatives
Losses and lawsuits
LOSS DATABASE
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…
Running for cover
Energy
Firms Voice Frustration over FSA Continuity Plans
Firms say "toothless" disaster recovery guidelines will result in inconsistent plans.
CLNs come of age
Technical
Bondholders versus shareholders
Sponsored article
Equity poses the big questions
Roundtable
Why won’t banks grasp the op risk nettle?
OP RISK MANAGEMENT