Energy Risk
Close-up on market risk capital
Jack Kennedy outlines rating agency Standard & Poor’s new approach for analysing the credit quality of US energy trading firms
Keeping EAR simple
Brett Humphreys discusses how trading groups can be captured within earnings-at-risk and cashflow-at-risk models. He suggests taking a top-down approach instead of a bottom-up approach based on actual positions
From Enron to Iraq
The freight derivatives market has ridden out the loss of market-maker Enron, and now all eyes are turning to the effect of military action against Iraq. By Kevin Foster
Untangling the web
Enterprise-Wide Risk Management
The three-way knock-on effect
Enterprise-Wide Risk Management
The CRO road
Enterprise-Wide Risk Management
Know your trade types
Enterprise-Wide Risk Management
Market mind games
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After the swashbucklers
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Brent changes promise stability
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Green risks for the black stuff
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A towering success
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Confusion over a barrel
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Let’s get physical
Credit Lyonnais Rouse Derivatives is a commodity trader moving into natural gas trading. And not just on the financial side, as Joel Hanley discovers
Corruption on the ropes
Is the use of those age-old lubricants, bribery and corruption, for so long a normal part of doing business in the third world, now on the wane? Frank Gray reports