Regulation/People

Powerful ambition

Backed by the financial might of Russia's Renova Group, Avelar Energy is investing in conventional and renewable energy assets across western Europe. Avelar's CEO, Igor Akhmerov, tells Roderick Bruce about his company's strategy

Power struggle

Forward liquidity has been lacking in the UK power market since 2002, and attempts to improve the situation have met with little success. Roderick Bruce considers what the future may hold for UK power trading

A path for renewables

Renewable energy needs to become a bigger part of the US energy mix, but there are still a number of hurdles to clear, explains Richard McMahon of the Edison Electric Institute

Reviving RMBS

With only one public RMBS issue in the UK during the whole of 2008, the market would seem to have hit rock-bottom. But moves are afoot to help restore confidence in the market and enable banks to finance mortgage lending, as Laurence Neville reports

Column: Robin Keck

Recently redundant? Don't fret: a few positive steps could soon see you back in the market

Asian retail focus

The process of tempting Asian retail investors back to credit has been an uphill struggle for distributors, who have tried to stimulate interest with a series of structured first-to-default notes that give sovereign exposure. But heavy mark-to-market…

The Big Interview: Goran Lind

Sweden's success in handling a severe credit crisis it experienced in the 1990s has been cited as a model for economic policy-makers faced with the current credit crunch. Goran Lind, advisor to the executive board of the Swedish central bank, the…

Structured credit's re-formation

The structured credit market has been blamed for much of the turmoil in credit and, by association, the wider global economy. But many market participants remain convinced that structured credit has a major role to play in the financial landscape of the…

Talking Point

We ask leading market participants whether recent moves to establish a European-style covered bond market in the US can sustain early momentum and result in a successful, fully functioning market