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Genius or blunder?

As more details emerge on the rogue trading scandal that caused a EUR4.9 billion loss, Société Générale appears more a victim of risk management failures than of a genius of fraud. But is this case a one-off, or are other institutions similarly…

The business of saying no

Rising energy prices have caused an upturn in demand response - or energy curtailment - in the last two years. Elisa Wood looks at how this is impacting power markets

Herd mentality

The unbridled success of the credit derivatives market over the past few years - until last summer, that is - had led large numbers of investors to adopt similar positions in the sector. Such risk concentration was always likely to cause problems if the…

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