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Private banking: Difficult landscape
Special report: Focus on Asia
The capital calculation question
Retail portfolio risk
Ready for take-off
Exchange profile: TurkDex
Emerging asset classes
Structured Products
Financing the oligarchs
Corporate finance
A case for convergence?
Bank capital
Playing it safe
Regulations
A giant step for equity
China
Compromising on Basel II
US banks
Rights and resources
Doing business in a country with a poor human rights record can be costly, thanks to the changing landscape of corporate liability and human rights. Maria Kielmas reports
Package deals
Banks have been choosing off-the-shelf fully integrated systems for energy trading and risk management. But some feel the available software still falls short
The windfall dilemma
Free allocations of emission allowances may keep fossil fuel generators happy, but their customers are not smiling. Tobias Hsieh, credit analyst with ratings agency Standard & Poor's, explains who wins and loses under the trading rules
Deriving storage value
Following an article Energy Risk published in July, TransCanada's Farzan Nathoo looks at how companies can extract value from their natural gas storage assets
Price drivers - Policy fears in EU ETS
Developments in 2005 have shown that the EU ETS price has been correlated to relative fuel prices and weather. However, there are still remaining policy issues that could greatly influence prices, writes Henrik Hasselknippe and Kjetil Roine from Point…
The advantage of ASPs
Web-based energy-trading solutions offer certain advantages over server-based systems, says Thurstan Bannister. In a later issue, we will publish an article setting out the benefits of server-based software
Market focus - Sky-high cost of clean air
US emissions allowance prices for sulphur dioxide (SO2) rose nearly 200% in 2005 and 300% during 2004. Sandy Fielden of Logical Information Machines examines the SO2 emissions allowance market and discovers which market drivers are forcing prices ever…
The blame game
In the first of two articles on the effect of speculative traders on energy prices, Tom Matthews of Kinder Morgan argues that speculators do not cause price volatility and outlines research he has done on the subject
CDM reaches out
European firms are now aided in meeting their climate targets by being encouraged to invest in third world emissions reductions. But, as Oliver Holtaway discovers, not everyone is optimistic that the industry will participate
Survey - Positive feedback
Energy Risk's second annual emissions survey charts the development of emissions trading in Europe since the start of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme a year ago
Australia - High yield boosts growth
A landmark deal from Tabcorp in 2004 marked the emergence of the high-yield bond market in Australia, while the rebalancing of the UBS Composite Bond Index to include lower-rated credits is also fuelling growth, writes Alan McNee in this month's regional…
The implication of inflation
Inflation