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Looking back: Are banks coming back into OTC energy derivatives?
Banks have often stepped in and out of the OTC energy derivatives market. In this article from August 2001, Energy Risk reports on banks upping their activity
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Capacity market set to provide UK's back-up plan
An important part of UK Electricity Market Reform is the launch of a capacity market, with the first auction due to take place in December 2014. Despite initial opposition, market participants have gradually come around to the idea. Stella Farrington…
Back-office technology product of the year: SmartStream
The old process of reconciliation has been made newly complex by regulation. Banks want technology to solve the problem
Inflation derivatives house of the year: Barclays
Inflation derivatives house of the year: Barclays
Hedge fund derivatives house of the year: Deutsche Asset and Wealth Management
Deutsche Asset and Wealth Management has launched a number of new initiatives in 2013, while continuing to build its core managed account platform
Structured products house of the year: Société Générale
Structured products house of the year: Société Générale
How to capture growth in an autocallable world
Strategists are cautioning investors to look beyond autocallables and take advantage of low volatility to buy growth products. The banks have listened, engineering new solutions to capture upside. But will investors take the bait? Yakob Peterseil reports.
OTC client clearing service of the year: Barclays
Barclays has retained its leading market share in client clearing, despite the onset of mandatory clearing in the US and the entrance of new players. It also found time to score a few market firsts
Credit portfolio manager of the year: HSBC
HSBC has attempted to improve the accuracy of its credit portfolio economic capital forecasting by extending its model beyond a one-year horizon
Emerging markets dealer of the year: Standard Bank
Standard Bank is a big player in its home market, with good international ties - now, the idea is to use those strengths to support the development of sub-Saharan Africa
Credit derivatives house of the year: Credit Suisse
Credit derivatives house of the year: Credit Suisse
Equity derivatives house of the year: Morgan Stanley
Equity derivatives house of the year: Morgan Stanley
OTC trading platform of the year: Tradeweb
Two platforms appeared to take an early lead in the first few months of the Sef regime, but one – Tradeweb – won high praise from users for its responsiveness, customer services and technology
OTC infrastructure service of the year: eClerx
Collateral agreements are the foundation of the over-the-counter market. But, sometimes, those foundations are shaky
Currency derivatives house of the year: Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Currency derivatives house of the year: Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Exchange of the year: Ice
It took Ice six years to find a way into the interest rate futures market. Its arrival - via the $8.2 billion acquisition of NYSE Euronext - will intensify competition in over-the-counter derivatives clearing
Interest rate derivatives house of the year: Goldman Sachs
Interest rate derivatives house of the year: Goldman Sachs
Clearing house of the year: LCH.Clearnet
According to LCH.Clearnet Ltd's chief executive, what clearing houses do is akin to landing planes. Last year, the firm focused on keeping its safety record spotless
Law firm of the year: Davis Polk and Wardwell
Australian trading platform Yieldbroker was snared by the notorious footnote 88 last year. Its lawyers, Davis Polk, found the way out
Bank risk manager of the year: Deutsche Bank
Bank risk manager of the year: Deutsche Bank
Corporate risk manager of the year: Microsoft
The first US clearing mandates came into force last year in three separate phases. While most corporates looked to take advantage of the corporate hedging exemption, Microsoft decided right from the start to voluntarily clear everything
Sovereign of the year: Riksgälden
Sweden's national deficit forecast roughly trebled at the start of this year, after the central bank decided to boost its US dollar reserves. The Riksgälden publicly questioned the need for the money - but had to go through with the financing. This year…