Energy transition
Hedging advisory firm of the year: Mercatus Energy Advisors
Boutique sets up offices in Asia and Europe and expands into LNG and coal
Natural gas house of the year: BP
Physical and financial capabilities give BP unique ability to provide long-dated consumer hedges
Oil & products house of the year: Macquarie
Australian bank steps up activities in physical and financial crude markets
Technology advisory house of the year: Accenture
Consulting giant boosts energy markets expertise with Structure deal
Electricity house of the year: Engie Global Markets
Trading unit helps clients cope with intermittency of wind and solar power
Exchange of the year: SGX
Singapore Exchange pushes ahead in LNG, iron ore, freight and electricity
Deal of the year: Morgan Stanley
Deal enables Gulf Power to be first utility in Florida to buy wind power
Emissions house of the year: Citi
Facebook wind-power deal underscores bank’s strength in renewables
Grappling with big data: Market data management in energy trading systems
Using analytics to manage multiple large data sets in energy commodity markets should not be an insurmountable challenge – provided the right tools are used, says Mike McSpedon, global head of sales at GlobalView, who discusses the firm’s sterling…
Regulation remains top concern for US energy risk managers
Capital requirements, position limits and other rules still hampering liquidity, conference hears
Morgan Stanley’s Sherk stresses value of oil hedging
Options have become good way for E&P firms to raise capital, top banker says
The UK carbon floor and power plant hedging
How to calculate expected future carbon costs and optimal valuation and hedging decisions, by adjusting Monte Carlo simulations for the UK market
Ex-Citi oil options head enjoys the hedge fund life
GZC’s Elbhar rode oil spread trade to 40% annual return in 2015
US banks face questions over bad oil loans
Resilience of hard-hit regional lenders scrutinised as losses mount
Moving to the cloud: The next frontier for E/CTRM systems?
As energy and commodity firms cut their IT budgets, a growing number of companies are exploring hosted solutions as a way to cut costs and make their IT infrastructure more nimble
Wells Fargo hires senior gas trader from Mercuria
Other hires at Cargill, Millennium Management and Xcel Energy
CFTC automated trading proposal worries energy firms
US power and gas companies surprised to learn they may need to register as algorithmic traders
Banks push e-trading of OTC energy derivatives
Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Societe Generale lead race to add oil and gas to single-dealer platforms
Climate change is the fattest tail risk of them all
Casting doubt on science is an unwise risk management strategy, Vincent Kaminski argues
Citadel builds physical gas trading business
Hedge fund’s foray into gas follows bank retreat from physical commodities
EU energy firms ‘working in the dark’ on Remit reporting
Uncertainty lingers even as firms begin reporting bilateral power and gas trades
IT heads of energy trading firms wrestle with budget cuts
Migration to cloud-based solutions considered as budgets fall 20–25% in 2016
Energy Risk Software Rankings 2016
OpenLink voted best overall ETRM platform in annual survey of favourite vendors, implementation specialists, data providers and data managers
Falling budgets are top IT worry for energy firms
Tech spending by energy trading companies is set to plummet in 2016, survey finds