Hedging
US natural gas hedging: 2012 outlook
Scanning the horizon
WTI-Brent spread volatility disrupts hedging programmes
WTI-Brent spread volatility disrupts hedging programmes
Companies cautious on hedging in headline-driven energy markets: consultants
Energy-intensive companies are reluctant to pursue aggressive hedging programmes in the current market environment, where headlines are having a disproportionate effect on prices compared with the fundamentals, say consultants
ACT warns of risks from regulation in 2012
Basel III and Emir could push companies out of Europe, predicts ACT deputy policy director
Gas users lock in low long-term prices
Long-term price risk management deals are becoming more popular with utilities and regulators as a way to lock in low natural gas prices
Sponsored Q&A: BNP Paribas
Asian commodity markets react to volatility
More clarity needed over commodities clearing in Europe
Not yet in the clear
In defence of cross-product margining
In defence of cross-product margining
Cutting Edge introduction: the DVA debate
The DVA debate
Q&A: Kwame Okyere-Mensuo, Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, Ghana
Kwame Okyere-Mensuo, technical adviser at Ghana’s Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, talks about the country’s pioneering import hedging programme, as well as the hedging of output from the Jubilee field
The rise of sovereign commodity risk management
Sovereign commodity risk management
Corporates fear CVA charge will make hedging too expensive
Crunch time for corporates
South African tax ruling may just be stay of execution, brokers warned
Stay of execution?
Risk interdealer rankings 2011: Dealers
Dealers enjoyed a bright start to the year but endured a slow second quarter and a savage start to the third as political wrangling over European and US debt contributed to a surge in volatility and risk aversion. For the third year in a row, Deutsche…
Q&A: Gerardo Rodriguez, Mexico's Ministry of Finance and Public Credit
Mexico's 2012 oil hedging programme
Deutsche-Ille ruling changes sales practices for German dealers
Accentuate the negative
Mexico’s hedging programme gears up for 2012
This week Mexico’s Congress will begin to debate the price at which the country hedges its oil exports next year
Mexico driving put skew in Brent, say brokers
The put skew in Brent crude oil is close to its yearly high. This is being driven by the hedging programme of Mexico, as well as more general risk aversion on macroeconomic worries, according to brokers
Special report: Foreign exchange
Asian currencies on the rise
Foreign banks get temporary respite from China’s new ‘Volcker rule’
Foreign banks in China, particularly thinly capitalised branches that are not locally incorporated in the country, greeted a decision by China’s banking regulator to postpone rules aimed at limiting non-hedging business onshore with relief this month…
Energy end-user hedging: BASF's Gonzalez
Alejandro Gonzalez, senior commodities risk manager at the chemicals giant BASF, spoke at Energy Risk USA 2011 in Houston about his approach to hedging in a volatile environment
Energy experts eye Dodd-Frank tech benefits
Data reporting systems may be far from Dodd-Frank friendly in the energy sector, but experts say users are likely to benefit once they are up and running