Risk management
Plastics futures to launch on DGCX
The Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX) will launch plastics futures contracts on February 5.
Getting the measure of it
Measuring risk in the face of a lack of data is one of the greatest challenges for energy risk managers, say respondents of our risk management survey. Stella Farrington sets out this year's findings
The sum of all parts
The recent financial crisis has put enterprise-wide risk management firmly in the spotlight. Pauline McCallion looks at how this increased interest could advance ERM, and asks whether total ERM can ever be fully achieved
Joe Gold
Joe Gold, MD and co-head of commodities at Barclays Capital, talks to Katie Holliday about weathering the financial market turmoil
OTC Global Holdings forms new portfolio company
OTC Global Holdings (OTCGH) has formed its ninth portfolio company Pinnacle Derivatives, which will offer a complete range of traded instruments for financial institutions, producers and end users.
TradeCapture expands to Rome office
Energy trading and risk management provider TradeCapture has announced the opening of an office in Rome with Pete Carlile appointed as general manager for Europe.
Coal futures contract launched on ICE
Coal-trading platform globalCOAL has collaborated with global futures exchange the IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) to introduce a financially settled coal futures contract, entitled the gC ICE Newcastle Futures contract, specifically designed for the…
Derivatives loss impacts on Reliant’s Q3 results
Reliant Energy has announced a third quarter net loss of $1.04bn, due to unrealised losses of $1.69bn on energy derivatives.
ICE Clear Europe goes live
London-based energy exchange ICE Futures Europe yesterday successfully switched its clearing operations from LCH.Clearnet to is own ICE Clear Europe clearing house.
What’s our policy?
Today’s volatile and unpredictablemarket conditions make itincreasingly important to designan overarching risk managementpolicy upon which a riskmanagement programme can bedefined and built. David Perez ofEnite offers some guidelines
FCStone to post bad debt provision
FCStone Group, an integrated commodity risk management company, has announced it expects to incur a pre-tax bad debt provision of up to $25m due to losses by three domestic accounts, including an energy trading account.
ETF Securities close acquisition of Gold Bullion Securities
ETF Securities has completed the acquisition of Gold Bullion Securities’ Exchange Traded Commodities (ETC) products listed on London and Australian Stock Exchanges.
Eurex to launch commodity index futures and options
Derivatives exchange Eurex will launch futures and options based on Dow Jones-AIG commodity sub-sector indexes in the first quarter of 2009.
ICE Clear Europe to commence clearing on November 3
London-based ICE Futures Europe’s wholly owned clearing house ICE Clear Europe will begin operations on November 3, when all futures and OTC trading positions are transferred from current clearer LCH.Clearnet.
ETRM evolution
As energy trading and risk management systems become increasingly sophisticated, Rana Basu of TradeCapture looks at what users need to consider as they progress from implementing and using the most basic to the most complex systems