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Icap to buy US energy broker
London-based inter-dealer broker Icap plans to acquire the US energy broking company United Fuels International.
Icap to acquire United Fuels International
Interdealer broker Icap is to acquire the majority of the assets of United Fuels International, a leading US-based energy broking business with 2004 turnover of $24 million.
GFI buys Starsupply
Interdealer broker GFI Group has agreed to acquire Starsupply Petroleum, a leading broker of oil products and related derivative and option contracts.
Playing catch-up
The back office has found it difficult to keep up with front-office trading, prompting a warning by the FSA over the level of unsigned confirmations in the credit derivatives market earlier this year. Banks are now looking to improve the automation of…
TFS brokers first Nymex emissions contract
Global broker Tradition Financial Services (TFS) has brokered the first transaction on the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) emissions futures contract.
Evolution expands US west coast emissions brokerage ops
Energy broker Evolution Markets has expanded its environmental market operations for the western US with the hire of Laura Meadors, an expert in environmental market design and analysis. She is based in the San Francisco office, which opened in February…
Investing in the future
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What hedge funds need to know about energy derivatives
energy derivatives
Hedge funds lured by the choppy waters of freight derivatives
freight derivatives
Delivering the goods
There’s huge scope for growth in the freight derivatives market, but to attract more players, existing participants need to adopt more innovative and sophisticated trading practices, participants say. Stella Farrington reports
The energy equation
Quantitative analysis in the energy industry is undergoing a crucial transition as it moves out of the role of secondary support to sit at the heart of business decision-making. Stella Farrington looks at its advance
Pipelines and politics
The latest in a long line of disputes over natural gas supplies from Russia is raising concern among utility customers and investors that future supplies to the West may be disrupted. But is this a long-term problem? Oliver Holtaway reports