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Awards
Americas Awards
Innovation of the year, Americas - BNP Paribas
Americas Awards
Distributor of the year, Latin America - ABN Amro
Americas Awards
Law firm of the year, North America - Morrison & Foerster
Americas Awards
Index provider of the year, North America - Nasdaq
Americas Awards
Structurer of the year, Latin America - Merrill Lynch
Americas Awards
Chasing credit in the Lion City
Retail CDOs
Distributor of the year, North America - Incapital
Americas Awards
Follow-up fundamentals
Restructuring
Cautious Porsche
Corporate profile
Driving innovation convergence?
Experimental economics
Optimising hedging
Corporate profile
Divided fortunes
Corporate end-user survey 2006
The cost of complexity
Hybrid products
Special Report - Energy prices - Opening up the grid
Germany is set to move this year to an entry/exit system for access to its gas grids. But some in the market fear that unresolved issues could cause a bumpy start
Matrix-based IAS 39hedge accounting
This paper outlines a method that facilitates IAS 39 hedge accounting. Thekey element is the representation of hedging instruments by an allocationmatrix. Giel Halberstadt’s method can easily be applied in any commodity orfinancial trading company
Unearthing energy
As high natural gas prices continue to be the largest and ever-increasing cost for oil sands operations, the best hedge is a gasification strategy, says Catherine Lacoursiere
Valid Assumptions Required: confidence level and holding period
In the second article of his series, Brett Humphreys examines the assumptions associated with selecting a confidence level and a holding period for a VaR calculation
Joined-up risk assessment
The nature of risk is changing. Energy companies, well-skilled in managing market risk and operational risks, may now need to adopt a new stance towards risk management, write Rohit Bhapkar, Roland Rechtsteiner and John Stroughair
Convergence in Atlantic Basin coal
Atlantic Basin OTC coal trading is the envy of US and Asian markets, but until recently it was missing the key component of OTC contracts. But trading in globalCOAL's Atlantic products has taken off dramatically since the end of 2005, writes Stephen Doyle