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European power: Achieving transparency in Germany

Energy Risk’s series on European power markets focuses this month on Germany, Europe’s biggest power market and one of the best examples of market transparency. Rachel Morison looks at what can be learnt from it

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Maintaining interest

Axa IM has found its own ways to reduce counterparty risk and overcome the problems caused by low interest rates. It is now confident there will be a return to structured products. Clare Dickinson reports

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Seeking simplicity

Almost a year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, German retail investors are again becoming comfortable with products from US investment banks. This means that domestic players will need to fight hard to retain their increased market share as the…

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Sharing the pain

The financial crisis has exposed serious flaws in risk management and business practices at many institutions across the world, and provided sizeable challenges for supervisors trying to extinguish the fires. Sabine Lautenschlager-Peiter, head of banking…

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A simple plan

Changes to capital gains tax and the spectre of counterparty risk have done no favours for the German structured products market in the latter half of 2008. But with a level tax landscape due in 2009 and a move towards simple structures, Berenberg Bank…

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