Risk management
Assessing nuclear risk in the aftermath of Fukushima
Financial losses stemming from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear reactor accident will likely match or exceed losses at banks during the financial crisis. The ripple effect is already being felt by power generators worldwide. Stephen Maloney identifies the…
Commodities Trading and Investment Summit: conference highlights
China, oil prices and the impact of regulation were among the topics hotly debated at Energy Risk’s inaugural Commodities Trading and Investment Summit held in Geneva last month. Ned Molloy reports
Profile: Anthony Belchambers – CEO, FOA
Derivatives regulation needs to better recognise that sustainable economic growth is risk dependent, says Anthony Belchambers, chief executive of the Futures and Options Association. A disproportionate regulatory response with unrealistic goals will…
GFI Group, Inc.
GFI Group, Inc. is a leading provider of wholesale brokerage, clearing services, electronic execution and trading support products, providing services to institutional clients for a range of fixed income, equity, commodity and financial products
Constellation's Boultwood talks ERM and stress testing
Brenda Boultwood of Constellation Energy talks about her approach to Enterprise Risk Management and stress testing
CFTC position limits: GFI's Cosgrove
Michael Cosgrove of GFI Energy talks position limits, real-time reporting and collateral posting
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
Valuing wind power: IPR-GDF Suez's Rajan
Karthik Rajan, senior director, strategy portfolio and risk management group at IPR-GDF Suez North America, discusses how elements of commodity risk management can be integrated into the valuation of long-term wind power portfolios
Enterprise risk management: John Wengler
Energy companies are only starting to discover the value of risk management skills and taking an enterprise-wide risk approach, says John Wengler
ICE Europe's commitment of traders reports welcomed by participants
ICE Futures Europe is publishing commitment of traders (COT) reports for its global commodity benchmark ICE Brent crude and ICE gas-oil futures
EFETnet, DTCC to set up commodity derivatives repository
A partnership between EFETnet and DTCC aims to create a global commodity derivatives trade repository, which will provide regulators one point of contact for trade data
Paul Hawkins new global head of commodities at Credit Suisse
Credit Suisse has hired Paul Hawkins as a managing director and global head of commodities, to join in August.
Position limits will feed risk into real economy, say energy companies
Energy market participants have expressed doubt that European position limits proposals will achieve reductions in market volatility, and warned of unintended consequences for end-users' risk management
