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Ferc calls for risk manager vigilance
William Hederman, director of the office of market oversight and investigations (OMOI) at the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Ferc), today urged energy risk managers to alert his office to any suspicious market practices.
Exceptional Rates of Failure
With industry exception rates so high that the word exception is hardly appropriate, some firms are taking drastic steps. Among them: demanding that partners meet minimum standards to continue getting business.
ABN Amro delves into global OTC oil and gas derivatives
Dutch bank ABN Amro has started to offer its clients oil and gas hedging services, as part of its financial markets business, which incorporates debt capital markets, structured lending and risk management activities.
Reference Data's Dirty Little Secret
It turns out reference data standards will make it easier for customers to switch data vendors. There are growing whispers about how positively vendors will view that.
QIS3 results released by Basel Committee
A paper outlining the results of the third quantitative impact study (QIS3) was released by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision yesterday.
FMCL launches Asian oil forward curve data
The Forward Market Curve Limited (FMCL) has launched the first module of its ForwardMarketCurve (FMC) product – an all-broker methodology for achieving robust and accurate price discovery in forward commodity markets.
A Spanish power struggle
A takeover bid by gas distributor Gas Natural for power utility Iberdrola may provide the impetus for much-needed competition in the Spanish energy market. But the bid has upset many traditional links in politics, finance and business. By Maria Kielmas
Worth the trouble?
Collateral managers
“We need a better Basel Accord”
Securitisation
CDO market looks to a broader asset base
Collateral
Solutions or smokescreens?
Structural enhancements
Basel II: a continental rift
Implementation
Protecting the investor
Roundtable
On a wing and a prayer
Airlines
Delaying the inevitable?
Finance
TI-Olivetti: happily engaged
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