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Paul Newman
To celebrate its 15th anniversary this year, Energy Risk brings you interviews with the veterans who have helped shape today's energy markets. Paul Newman, oil derivatives pioneer and managing director of Icap Energy, discusses the past 15 years in…
Interview - Forward market thinking
Richard Sandor, chairman and chief executive officer of the Chicago Climate Exchange, pioneered the first ever emissions trading scheme in the late 1980s for acid rain, drawing on his experience in launching interest rate futures 20 years earlier. He…
Paul Newman
To celebrate its 15th anniversary this year, Energy Risk brings you interviews with the veterans who have helped shape today's energy markets. Paul Newman, oil derivatives pioneer and managing director of Icap Energy, discusses the past 15 years in…
Banks pull back from market-making
A lack of OTC market-making is causing concern about long-term liquidity in the energy markets. The future of market-making depends on the banking industry, reports Katie Holliday
Banks pull back from market-making
A lack of OTC market-making is causing concern about long-term liquidity in the energy markets. The future of market-making depends on the banking industry, reports Katie Holliday
Risk managers still lacking influence, says report
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CFTC names Chilton head of energy committee
Bart Chilton, one of four commissioners at the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, took charge of the regulator's energy markets advisory committee yesterday.
Senior Supervisors Group: CDS auction process working
A report released on March 9 by the Senior Supervisors Group (SSG) suggests the auction process for settling credit default swaps (CDSs) - tested several times over the past six months - is working.
Wu takes helm at Hong Kong pensions overseer
Anna Wu Hung-yuk will start a two-year term as chairperson of Hong Kong's Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority (MPFA) on March 17.
Moody's warns of "severe default cycle"
Weak consumer spending in the US means 283 companies are now at high risk of default, credit rating agency Moody's Investors Service has warned.
Credit Suisse chairman moves to Swiss Re
Walter Kielholz has resigned as chairman of Credit Suisse, to be replaced by the vice-chairman, Hans-Ulrich Doerig.
Brokerage launches environmental arm
Phoenix Partners Group, an interdealer credit and equity derivatives broker, has launched an environmental brokerage service for the worldwide renewable energy and emissions markets.
UBS's chairman to follow CEO out
UBS' chairman Peter Kurer will not stand for re-election at its next annual general meeting on April 15.