Risk management
CME chief says central clearing house removes 'black swan' threat
Chicago Merchantile Exchange's (CME) Asia energy and metals chief says the group’s central counterparty clearing (CCP) house removes the possibility of a ‘black swan’ incident
Qantas’s head of risk: hedging programme is too conservative
Qantas Airways’ head of risk believes the company could take more risks within its hedging programme
Power exchange to launch gas contract
New Nodal Exchange contract to increase options for power traders; anticipates future gas and renewables demand
EU rules changes may cause power market liquidity risk
Power market risk managers face a new set of liquidity and market risks if the European Union (EU) enforces proposed regulation changes, says RWE chief
Banks take early steps to computer clouds
Cloud control
Uncertainty over future of UK nuclear regulation
Uncertainty over future of UK nuclear regulation
PJM addresses FERC credit concerns with new entity
PJM addresses FERC credit concerns with new entity
BP oil spill creates long-term oil risk management issues
BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill forces risk managers to look at long-term margin costs and soaring oil prices post-2012
Data governance under the regulatory microscope
Consolidation process
Q&A - Tertiary Minerals executive chairman Patrick Cheetham
Key ingredient
Trading positions – October 2010
Trading positions - October 2010
Regulation, liquidity and risk management strategies
Counting the costs
Tackling section 165 of the Dodd-Frank Act
Tackling section 165
Factors on demand
Linear factor models are commonly used by portfolio managers to capture sources of risk, traditionally split between systematic and idiosyncratic types. By using the conditional link between flexible bottom-up estimation, and top-down attribution, factor…
UK Lehman administration considers spin-off
Specialist firm would provide complex derivatives valuation and advisory services.
Total eyes growing Asia and China energy market
French energy giant Total takes a large stake in an Australian liquefied natural gas (LNG) project with an eye to growing energy demand from Asia and China
BNP Paribas reshuffles global equities and commodities derivatives business
French bank BNP Paribas has reshuffled its global equity and commodity derivatives (GECD) business units and says there are no job losses
EDHEC-Risk slams France on commodity derivatives regulation
Influential risk management and analytics business school, the EDHEC-Risk Institute, has criticised France for its hardline approach to commodity derivatives market regulation on lack of evidence
Middle East maelstrom
Middle East maelstrom
Trading positions - September 2010
Energy Risk catches up with the latest appointments, promotions and departures in global commodity markets
Special report: Energy end-users
Special report: Energy end-users
Open source reaches risk analytics
Free for all
Brokers establish own carbon trading risk tests
Carbon brokers establish their own checks for assessing counterparty risk, following European market authorities’ failure to react to a spate of carbon market fraud.