Energy
CFTC to sue AEP over false gas trades
Ohio-based utility American Electric Power (AEP) has been charged with reporting 2,800 false natural gas trades to energy price index companies, such as Platts, and attempting to manipulate natural gas prices. The charges, levied by the US Commodity…
A better man
Man Group has seen record profits and fund raisings over the last few years. What is its secret?
Any last words?
CP3 comments
Power to the European gas markets
Natural Gas
Late for the party?
Retail investors
US gas squeeze hits power
Natural Gas
Gas supply problems persist
Natural Gas
To store or not to store
Natural Gas
Utilities: stoking the flames
Credit of the month
King ofjunk
Michael Milken
Sector roundup
Sectors
Meeting the competition
China
Newcrest goes vanilla
Corporate profile
Korean ELDs fall out of favour
New angles
French banks behind on op risk
COVER STORY
Inflation trading comes of age
Interest rates
How to check your price
Systems
Signs are good for IAS 39 final preparations
IAS 39 is still being finalised, but bank asset and liability managers are already putting in place systems and procedures to make sure their businesses come up to scratch. John Ferry reports
The dilemmas of risk disclosure
Barry Schachter discovers that the path towards a workable structure for hedge fund quantitative risk disclosure is very narrow. Bad news for the post-LTCM lobbyists
Measuring operational risk: a reality check
In the second of two articles on operational risk, Mark Holmes looks at the measurement issues involved, taking a constructively critical look at the ideas currently in vogue.
China opts out of Basel II
China's banking regulator, the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC), has opted out of Basel II, declaring that the country's financial institutions won't be ready to adopt the new Accord by the end-2006 deadline.