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LCHClearnet expands emission clearing services
Clearing house LCHClearnet will expand its OTC clearing services for EU emissions trading scheme carbon credits (EUAs) and introduce clearing for Certified Emission Reduction (CER) contracts from the beginning of 2008.
Barcap launches global carbon index
Barclays Capital has launched a global carbon index, which tracks the performance of carbon credits in major emissions trading schemes.
Open outcry fading away as Nymex fends off rivals
New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) chairman Richard Schaeffer said today that 80% of the exchange’s business is now done electronically, as the open outcry trading floor becomes “less and less meaningful”. He also outlined ambitious plans for 2008, and…
Commodity investor sophistication increasing, says Barclays Capital
A survey of 150 Barclays Capital clients has found that half expect to have more than a 10% exposure to commodities in their portfolios, a threefold increase from a similar poll carried out in 2005.
Business is booming Down Under
country focus: AUstralia
Getting off lightly
Securitisation
Didier Giblet
Didier Giblet started out as a police investigator before moving into finance. The global head of energy and commodities trading at Fortis tells Roderick Bruce how an investigative mind has helped him in his career in energy trading
Setting the stage for 2008
As 2007 draws to a close, the Energy Risk team asked market participants what they regard as the most influential events of 2007 and how these are likely to shape market behaviour in 2008. By Stella Farrington with additional reporting by David Watkins
Will they weather the storm?
The weather derivatives market saw record volumes in 2006, but these declined sharply into 2007. Evan Koster, David Cohn and Nicholas Rock of Dewey & LeBoeuf look at where the weather market, now 10 years old, may go next
The future arrives for renewables
The emerging market in renewable energy futures is expected to lower the cost of financing renewables and smooth out the volatility often encountered when running intermittent renewable resources, such as wind and solar. Catherine Lacoursière investigates
Winding down
Prepayments
Siv troubles endure as banks revise super-conduit plan
The troubles facing structured investment vehicles are leaving new issuance in the mortgage markets looking shaky. It is unclear whether plans to create a super-Siv to bail them will succeed
Deal of the month
Volkswagen leasing
Profile: Greg Froese
Matthew Attwood talks to the investor relations manager at hedge fund Lionhart about his experiences this summer and when he expects to see value in the post-crunch market
Profile: Arthur Calavritinos
Arthur Calavritinos runs one of the top-performing high-yield bond funds in the US, the John Hancock High Yield Fund. He tells Dalia Fahmy about the investment strategies that he hopes will insulate his investments against the current credit squeeze
Deal of the month
Gazprom
Deal of the month
GMAC-RFC
Playing catch up
US Pensions
The power of the trustee on the mergers and acquisitions battlefield
Sponsored roundtable
Index providers interview
Indexes
Falling for fashion
Conference report