Energy
Trade surveillance shouldn’t deter traders
Monitoring costs are forcing commodity players away from market participation, say consultants
China oil future approved, March start targeted, says source
International banks see healthy interest from overseas clients
People: Shell’s Quartermain replaces Muller
Other moves at Morgan Stanley, Gunvor, Macquarie and others
Achieving business agility through CTRM systems
Webinar: Openlink
OTF uncertainty adds to Mifid II guesswork
Commodity firms need clarity on new type of venues to adjust to imminent rules
Energy Risk Asia Awards 2017: The winners
Societe Generale takes finance house and research gongs; Citi picks up derivatives award
Commodity finance house of the year, Asia: Societe Generale
Energy Risk Asia awards, 2017: Green initiatives drive bank’s Asian energy funding business
Commodity research house of the year, Asia: Societe Generale
Energy Risk Asia awards, 2017: Digging into position analysis allows bank to better track commodity markets
Q&A: Giancarlo stresses importance of international relations
EU regulatory inexperience causes problems for CFTC chairman
Q&A: CFTC’s Quintenz weighs swap dealer threshold impact
Activity-based threshold could be ‘disincentivising’ dealers, says commissioner
Applied risk management series: gas storage valuation strategies
A look at the valuation of gas storage facilities and show how a deeper analysis of the value formation can offer insights for P&L optimisation and risk management
Top 10 energy risks and challenges
Regulation and changing market dynamics among threats to energy in year ahead
Quintenz: former CFTC leadership failed commodities end-users
Commissioner says regulator “poorly defined populations and risk” under Obama administration
People: Genco opens Singapore office, hires head of major bulks
Recent changes at dry cargo, gas trading and gold market participants, among others
Are failure indexes fair play?
Regulators must clarify stance on trading off big-data forecasts of outages, writes energy consultant
Esma reviews gas and power spot month definition
Definition key to setting EU position limits
People: JP Morgan bolsters commodities research
US bank recruits oil strategist, as Societe Generale, OpenLink and others ring changes
Ferc urged to prop up illiquid natural gas indexes
A lack of willing price reporters is eroding confidence in key benchmarks
Final US position limits rule will take ‘at least a year’
CFTC expected to draft a narrow list of contracts in scope
Using derivatives to forecast oil scenarios
Generating probability-weighted oil price scenarios from traded derivatives prices can help risk managers in the industry
People: US Senate confirms slate of regulatory appointees
Giancarlo confirmed as CFTC chairman, Quintenz and Behnam join as commissioners; Chatterjee and Powelson restore Ferc quorum
Optimal management of green certificates in the Swedish–Norwegian market
This paper proposes and investigates a valuation model for the income of selling tradeable green certificates in the Swedish–Norwegian market, formulated as a singular stochastic control problem.
Commodity finance house of the year: Societe Generale
Energy Risk Awards 2017: French bank shows breadth of strengths across energies
Ferc’s Collins dismisses algo trading fears
Energy Risk USA: surveillance chief says HFT is yet to take hold in the power and gas markets