Baltic Exchange
All aboard for LNG freight derivatives?
Tools to manage LNG freight risk were developed last year, but how is the market responding?
Shanghai looks to create freight derivative markets
China makes regionally established commodity benchmarks a policy aim
Chinese exchange in freight derivatives first
Shanghai Shipping Freight Exchange planning to launch crude oil freight contact next
Enforcement director nominated for Ferc chair
Centrica hires Hess market risk director; Vattenfall names trading head; Gazprom recruits BAML power trader; Baltic Exchange names Singapore head; Mitsubishi UFJ in commodity retreat
Liquidity flows back into freight derivatives
Rising prices and volatility spur renewed interest in dry bulk FFAs
E.on trading arm makes changes at the top
Fontaine leaves BNP Paribas; GDF Suez hires Standard Bank coal head; Trafigura opens Moscow office; LME names new CEO; Morgan Stanley hires oil trader
First container derivatives trade could herald booming new market
Container derivatives launched by Clarkson Securities Limited signifies potential for new market, say experts.
Change to BDI looks to boost derivatives trading
The way the Baltic Dry Index (BDI) is calculated will change as of July 1, in a move designed to encourage derivatives trading of the index.
Freight derivatives market shifts further towards clearing
Fears of counterparty credit risk have led to a sharp migration towards clearing in the freight derivatives market over the past four months. The ratio of cleared forward freight agreement (FFA) trades to non-cleared over-the-counter trades in the last…
The state of freight
Freight derivatives
UBS launches dry freight index
UBS has launched a tradeable index with dry freight derivatives as the underlying, dubbed the UBS Blue Sea Index (UBS-BSI).