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Energy

Amerex gains sulpur dioxide trading privileges on CCX

Houston-based broker Amerex Energy has obtained SO 2 trading privileges on the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), an emissions-trading marketplace. Amerex can now broker futures contracts in trading increments of 25-tonne SO2 allowances. The standard over…

11 Jan 2005

Exchanges

Eurex US offers three-year Treasury derivatives

Eurex US will list futures and options on futures in the three-year Treasury note market starting on February 1. The electronic derivatives exchange, which is part of the Deutsche Börse Group, already offers these products on two-, five- and 10-year…

11 Jan 2005

Credit markets

Barclays Capital wins derivatives house of the year in 2005 Risk Awards

Barclays Capital, the UK-based investment bank, scooped the prestigious Derivatives House of the Year Award in Risk magazine’s sixth awards for achievement in risk management.

10 Jan 2005

Infrastructure

Liquidity majors back SwapsWire's equity options service

The top 12 equity derivatives dealers will process over-the-counter equity option transactions through SwapsWire’s automated confirmation service when it launches in the second quarter of 2005.

10 Jan 2005

Exchanges

European partnership plans emissions trading market

Pan-European exchange operator Euronext plans to launch an emissions trading market in March 2005 in conjunction with French electricity exchange Powernext and French state-owned investment bank Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations.

07 Jan 2005

Environment-Renewables

Dutch-Norwegian power transmission link may spur electricity trading

A newly agreed Norway-Netherlands electricity transmission link will lead to power trading between the two countries, said Swiss power and automation technology group ABB. The link will also increase the reliability of electricity supply, said the…