Nord Pool’s back-up

Nord Pool Clearing is the first pure electricity clearing house to obtain capitalsupport through insurance to cover defaults by its trading counterparties. Areenergy companies set to follow suit? Joe Marsh reports

Credit derivatives have become a well-established risk-reduction mechanismin financial markets, but they are still not as widely available to energy companiesas one might hope. So says Maria Taylor, head of credit at EDF Trading in London.

A potential solution is the credit risk guarantee – another well-establishedmethod of credit risk mitigation, at least among exchanges and clearing houses.Global risk and insurance services group Marsh hopes the deal it has just arrangedfor Nordic power

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