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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

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…

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