De Vitry warns of energy market regulatory pressures

Benoit de Vitry, global head of commodities and emerging markets rates at Barclays Capital in London, today said that regulatory rules could adversely impact the development of a mature energy trading market.

Speaking at Energy Risk’s Houston conference, de Vitry said that while “regulators have the opportunity to improve the market they don’t always achieve their aims.” De Vitry also said that market participants in the energy derivatives markets have a “duty to make sure regulation doesn’t strangle market development.”

In particular de Vitry noted that accounting guidelines such as FASB133 are too strict when it comes to gaining hedge accounting for risk management activities. “I am aware of

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