Commodities
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Deutsche launches commodity indexes
Deutsche Bank has launched two new indexes that track the performance of a small set of liquid commodities.
AIR releases US temperature database
AIRWeather, a division of Boston-based natural hazard modelling company AIR Worldwide Corporation, yesterday released PerfecTemp Hourly, claiming that it is the first cleaned and reconstructed hourly station temperature database for the US. PerfecTemp…
The right choices
Due diligence is essential when selecting an administrator to ensure a life-long relationship
Knowing when the price is right
olatile markets have led to a change in risk procedures, with VaR and manager-led stop/loss strategies being favoured over automated controls
AccuWeather president calls for regulation of US National Weather Service
Joel Myers, president of AccuWeather, the Pennsylvania-based weather forecasting company, yesterday called for increased government regulation of the US National Weather Service (NWS), amid fears that its current practice of offering certain institutions…
Mark-it plans to offer data pricing service for structured credit
Mark-it Partners, a two-year-old company founded by senior bankers at Canada’s Toronto Dominion, is in advanced negotiations to set up a data pricing service for collateralised debt obligations (CDOs). If successful, this could become the first such…
ORIAG paper published on FSA website
The Operational Risk Implementation Advisory Group (ORIAG), which is chaired by the UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA), has posted its working paper, "Implementation of the Capital Accord for Operational Risk" on its website.
New Market, New OMS Sales Pitch
Baring Asset Management is doing something that a lot of trade order management vendors and market analysts wish the rest of the financial world would do: after implementing a new third-party order management system to replace its older in-house system,…
Hedge fund of fund investors may start using overlays
Improved risk exposure reporting by hedge funds may spark the introduction of new overlay strategies by investors increasingly concerned by bubbles of non-diversifiable risk in their portfolios.
Judicial stalemate
Germany
The bigger they come…
Germany
Ahead of the green game
Germany
Coal on the rocks
Faced with liquidity problems, falling volumes and uncertainty over the accuracy of price data, coal trading has had many of the same difficulties as the natural gas and power sectors over the past year. How can it get back on its feet, asks Kevin Foster
US pipelines follow the market
Todd Shipman of credit rating firm Standard & Poor’s finds that pipeline companies in the US will face more market risk than regulatory risk in the coming year
Premier cru
Credit rating unit
What lies beneath?
CDO pricing
Credit’s minefield
Credit bombs
TradeWeb and Charles River launch trade tool
Credit tech
The lessons of war
Cover story
Tyco: pulling itself together
Credit of the month