Commodities
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
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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
Managing energy market volumetric risk
Krzysztof Wolyniec presents a volumetric risk management model for energy markets
Energy Risk Commodity Rankings 2017
A celebration of the winners of Energy Risk’s Commodity Rankings 2017
People: Morgan Stanley sees raft of commodities exits
A number of senior bankers across Morgan Stanley’s commodities and energy lending units in the US are leaving the bank
Commodities traders question EU’s insider trading regime
Esma guidance on Mar leaves market in the dark, say critics – particularly for hedges
Energy firms given second escape path from Mifid II
Revival of capital test "a workable solution" for asset-heavy companies
A pairs trading strategy based on switching-regime volatility for commodity futures
A pairs trading strategy on energy, agricultural and index futures uses different parameters according to a volatility regime that is detected using a threshold evaluated in two ways, namely by means of a mixture of two Gaussian densities and a Markov…
‘Wrong type of liquidity’ spells trouble for energy hedges
Cyclical lull conceals structural shift as liquidity becomes shorter-dated and more flighty
Asia CTRM and ETRM software house of the year: OpenLink
OpenLink enters new market segment with RightAngle Xpress
Base metals dealer of the year: BNP Paribas
French bank expands hedging and finance solutions to mainland China
Asia commodity finance house of the year: Societe Generale
SG CIB makes Asia renewables expansion the cornerstone of its commodity finance business