Risk management
Base metals dealer of the year: BNP Paribas
French bank expands hedging and finance solutions to mainland China
Asia energy dealer of the year: BP
BP restructures long-dated hedge for commercial player
Asia data provider of the year: GlobalView
Data provider aims to disrupt with enterprise-wide solution and emphasis on integration
Energy Risk Asia Awards 2016: The winners
BP takes energy dealer of the year after ramping up third-party and structured business
Commodity volatility, skew and inverse leverage effect
Two observations have consequences for commodity risk management and stochastic volatility modelling: the first is that the standard leverage effects in commodities are due to a misspecification and are inefficient proxies for the forward slope effect;…
Coal contracts boom is a sign of desperation
Producers' turn to derivatives may be a last throw of the dice
Energy risk teams explore use of KRI metrics
KRIs show particular promise for managing operational risk
Energy firms fear liquidity void if US capital proposals hit banks
Trades ‘wouldn’t be anywhere near making sense’ for banks
Turning uncertainty into innovation in the energy industry
Uncertainty, low commodity prices and squeezed margins are pressing energy companies to look for more innovative and cost-efficient solution
Hidden risks for corporates in renewable energy PPAs
Buyers face load, covariance and basis risks in typical agreements
Position vacant: unpicking energy’s hidden contract risks
Complex, long-term supply deals present job opportunity for risk managers
Enterprise risk management powers up at utilities
There has been a resurgence of interest in enterprise risk management (ERM) recently. What can ERM offer beleaguered utilities?
A profit and loss attribution framework for physical and financial energy portfolios
A profit and loss attribution framework can improve the information available to energy traders and give valuable insight into the health of their portfolios
Plastics hedging rising amid US chemical industry boom
Interest in plastics derivatives is rising as a result of changing market dynamics, but major obstacles still limit its growth potential, finds Stella Farrington
Disasters can give valuable lessons – Engie Global Markets CRO
Ken Robinson reflects on the ‘good, bad and ugly’ in energy risk management
Commodities may be a sweet spot for blockchain
Some aspects of commodity markets make them a natural fit for distributed ledger technology
No quants need apply: new trends in risk hiring
Soft skills are growing more important in the recruitment of risk managers, Dragana Pilipovic argues
Coal derivatives trading surges amid hedge fund influx
Increased activity by funds fuels take-off in listed and OTC volumes, traders say
Cargill sees growth in plastics hedging
Swaps unit of commodity trading giant describes increasing need for derivatives on resins prices
Simulating meaningful uncertainty for complex energy portfolios
The meaningful uncertainty simulation framework can extract all relevant information contained in market and portfolio data to give energy firms the ability to make informed business decisions
What a star 1,480 light years away can teach risk managers
Amateur astronomers’ discovery shows value of humans over algorithms, Vincent Kaminski writes
Nasdaq energy futures face questions over ‘artificial’ volume
One year on, NFX faces uphill battle to draw commercial hedgers
Ex-Barclays fixed income head builds commodity hedge fund
Lamorre-Cargill seeks to entice investors back to commodities with Argon