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Brazil switches on to risk management
As Brazil's electricity market restructures, increasingly sophisticated risk management tools and systems are required, writes Leigh Parkinson
Weathering power's demand
Using temperature forecasts to predict power demand has some major pitfalls. Here Martin Fischer and Michael Grossman suggest ways to glean more from forecasted temperature data
Jaime Roman, risk managing director, Endesa, Spain
Jaime Roman is chief financial officer and risk managing director at Spanish utility Endesa. Holding a PhD in Electrical Engineering, he was in academia before being approached to join Endesa in 1997
UK Energy Review
The UK government's July Energy Review was generally welcomed for its stance on renewables, nuclear and carbon, but many market participants had been hoping for greater clarity
Going electronic
Commodities
Into the tempest
Natural catastrophe risk models suggest that insurers are significantly under-capitalised. Firms are tapping the capital markets for billions of dollars in additional reinsurance capacity, but it may not be enough to avoid damaging rating downgrades…
Taking exception
Value-at-risk
Changing times for managing liquidity
NEW YORK – Managing and accessing liquidity in electronic foreign exchange means something entirely different now to what it did five years ago, according to Bill Hartnett, global head of forex e-commerce at Citigroup.
When Risks Collide
Operational-risk projects like Sarbanes-Oxley and Basel II compliance have more in common than many firms realize. Waters asks industry participants: Does it make sense to combine op-risk efforts?
The Waiting Game
With the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive deadline just 16 months away, Waters sits down with Chris Pickles, chair of the MiFID Joint Working Group and manager of industry relations at BT Radianz, to gauge the industry's state of preparedness.
Rabobank trades its first hybrid derivatives
Rabobank International has traded its first hybrid product this week. According to Michael Weber, London-based head of the bank’s hybrid division, the contract was a quarterly callable dual range accrual on crude oil and the US dollar foreign exchange…
Tell it to the judge
With well over a year to go to implementation, the Mifid bandwagon is already rolling through investment firms across Europe, but what punishment can financial services criminals expect, if any? Peter Madigan investigates
TFS sets up dry freight brokerage
Interdealer brokerTradition Financial Services (TFS) has announced the creation of TFS Freight, a dry freight brokerage group based in Stamford, Connecticut.
Noble signs India emissions deal
Noble Carbon Credits, part of global supply chain manager Noble Group, has signed a series of long-term certified emission reduction (CER) contracts with India¹s Gujarat Fluorochemicals (GFL).
TFS to broker oil in Dubai
TFS has become the first interdealer broker to open a desk in Dubai, where it will initially cover precious metals, but also plans to broker oil, freight and financial instruments.
Cool response to quarter-point interest rate rise in Japan
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) today raised interest rates to 0.25% from 0% in a move that the Japanese central bank hopes will signal the end of a lengthy period of deflation and a decade-long economic slump.
Société Générale launches commodity-linked notes in Hong Kong
Société Générale has launched a three-year retail commodity-linked auto-callable note in Hong Kong. The principal-protected note will be linked to the price performance of an equally weighted basket of four commodities: West Texas Intermediate crude oil,…
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