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An agency apart
The FSA
First-class post
Stefano Calderano, head of retail products at BancoPosta, Poste Italiane’s financial services arm, has bankers throwing their balance sheets at his feet
Let’s get physical
Credit Lyonnais Rouse Derivatives is a commodity trader moving into natural gas trading. And not just on the financial side, as Joel Hanley discovers
Re-energising Nymex
In his first year as president of Nymex, Bo Collins has launched a series of ground-breaking product initiatives. Now he’s mulling credit mitigation tools for the besieged energy trading industry
A tight ship in rough waters
Power prices in the UK have fallen dramatically in recent months. What can the UK’s biggest power producer do to prevent more losses in this difficult market? Joel Hanley profiles British Energy
The energy traders’ trader
Danny Masters co-founded a hedge fund to exploit the untapped potential for risk management in the energy market
APB Energy’s winning formula
Kentucky-based APB Energy is one of the leading energy brokerage firms in North America. It has maintained its growth despite Enron fallout, perhaps due to its diverse range of services and locations. Kevin Foster reports
An aggressive agenda
Dresdner’s chief risk officer, Heinrich Linz, is masterminding a credit revolution at the German bank.
The active manager
SG Asset Management’s Stéphane Farouze provides tailor-made capital guarantees for investment managers. After closing some of the biggest deals in Europe, now he is eyeing the US
From academia to entertainment
Don Stowers reports on an internet platform for the oil and oil products market that is branching out into the entertainment business
High-yield survival
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The opportunist
In Barclays Capital, Bob Diamond has created a business that can compete with the global bulge bracket
Facing up to the brave new world
US firm Xcel Energy is coming to terms with new market realities in the US – and not wholly as a result of the Enron factor. Don Stowers profiles the company
Filling the energy void
The market for the trading standard energy blocks online is one of the most highly contested, but with new exchange E-lecTrade the focus switches to structured products. By Don Stowers
