Commodities
Achieving business agility through CTRM systems
Today’s narrow margins mean utilities and energy traders need to cut costs and improve efficiencies, and a firm’s choice of commodity trading and risk management system will be crucial in the battle to become as agile as possible
Energy Risk Asia Awards 2017: The winners
Societe Generale takes finance house and research gongs; Citi picks up derivatives award
Precious metals house of the year, Asia: BNP Paribas
Energy Risk Asia Awards, 2017: Bank’s Chinese gold offering drives growth
Exchange of the year, Asia: SGX
Energy Risk Asia awards, 2017: Scale and diversity add to exchange’s offering
Commodity broker of the year, Asia: BNP Paribas
Energy Risk Asia Awards, 2017: Long-term focus helps bank capitalise amid turbulent regional climate
ETRM/CTRM software house of the year, Asia: Openlink
Energy Risk Asia awards, 2017: Market maturity drives demand for risk management software
Innovation of the year, Asia: Thomson Reuters
Energy Risk Asia Awards, 2017: Data provider brings price transparency to Asian oil markets
Q&A: Giancarlo stresses importance of international relations
EU regulatory inexperience causes problems for CFTC chairman
Quintenz: former CFTC leadership failed commodities end-users
Commissioner says regulator “poorly defined populations and risk” under Obama administration
People: Genco opens Singapore office, hires head of major bulks
Recent changes at dry cargo, gas trading and gold market participants, among others
Are failure indexes fair play?
Regulators must clarify stance on trading off big-data forecasts of outages, writes energy consultant
Onus to check swap data should be on counterparties – SDRs
CME, Ice and DTCC oppose duty to reach out to non-reporting party for data verification
Energy and commodities voice broking will never die
Over-the-counter markets have been under siege in recent years. They won’t disappear, writes Mark Earthey
Ferc urged to prop up illiquid natural gas indexes
A lack of willing price reporters is eroding confidence in key benchmarks
Energy Risk Asia Awards 2017 open for entries
Awards set out to recognise achievements across Asian energy and commodity markets
Ferc’s Collins defends manipulation rule
US energy market watchdog is “serious” about its surveillance role
Commodity swap data goes from bad to worse
Lack of regulatory guidance, collaboration and market confusion continue to plague SDR reports
Commodities firms fear EBA’s inappropriate capital charges
Energy lobbying overlooked as proposed regime threatens vigorous demands
The Dark Ages: US and EU unite in position limit vagaries
Regulators’ inactivity infuriates commodities markets
Cloud control
Time-stretched energy traders are crying out for faster, smarter risk management systems. OpenLink has answered the call with its trading and risk management cloud that offers transformative possibilities to individual firms and the industry as a whole
Kaminski: discounting for energy swaps ‘a big mess’
Energy Risk USA: most energy firms still prefer Libor for discounting
Energy Risk Awards 2017: The winners
SocGen, Citi and BP among those recognised as commodities markets stabilise
Consultancy of the year: PwC
Energy Risk Awards 2017: PwC's world-class capabilities felt across commodities
Ferc’s Collins dismisses algo trading fears
Surveillance chief says HFT is yet to take hold in the power and gas markets