Energy

• Commodities

A localised flood

Weather derivatives

• 01 Feb 2003

• Technology

Software survey 2003

Credit technology hogged the spotlight in 2002, as the spectacular collapse of a host of corporate giants combined with movement on the Basel II Accord focused everyone's attention on this class of exposures.

• 28 Jan 2003

• Structured products

Fimat to launch global hedge fund index

Fimat Global Fund Services, the prime brokerage arm of Fimat International Banque, plans to add to the growing number of hedge fund indexes in the market with the launch of a volatility arbitrage hedge fund index in the next few weeks.

• 28 Jan 2003

• Risk management

Moody’s to give more weight to operational risk when rating banks

Moody's Investors Service will focus more on operational risks when rating banks, the rating agency said today.

• 23 Jan 2003

• Foreign exchange

Moody’s to give more weight to operational risk when rating banks

Moody’s Investors Service will focus more on operational risks when rating banks, the rating agency said today.

• 23 Jan 2003

• Hedge funds

Knowing when the price is right

Volatile markets have led to a change in risk procedures, with VaR and manager-led stop/loss strategies being favoured over automated controls

• 20 Jan 2003

• Operational risk

Measuring the operational risk of fund valuation companies

How can we model the losses due to operational risk in asset management? The loss process approach provides an answer specifically suited to this question for the fund valuation business and is in line with the work in progress of the Basel Committee on…

• 20 Jan 2003

• Commodities

BNP to launch European power trading desk

BNP Paribas today said it plans to start a European powertrading desk as part of its energy and commodity business.

• 17 Jan 2003

• Energy

Tullett and Starsupply merge oil businesses

Brokers Tullett Liberty and Starsupply Energy have merged their oil businesses to create what they claim is one of the largest energy broking operations worldwide.

• 03 Jan 2003

• Energy

First Kyoto compliance trade completed

• 01 Jan 2003

• Energy

Venezuela turmoil may delay Opec cuts

• 01 Jan 2003

• Exchanges

SIAC's New Spelling for Safety

The company that runs the computer systems and communications networks that power the New York Stock Exchange and the American Stock Exchange is overhauling the way it views redundancy.

• 01 Jan 2003