ABN to offer centralised power and gas clearing platform

Dutch bank ABN Amro today said it’s energy futures division is developing a platform to provide centralised over-the-counter (OTC) clearing for natural gas and power contracts at six European energy exchanges – UKPX, EEX, Endex, Powernext, IPE and Nordpool.

ABN has signed up SunGard Futures Systems as its technology provider to develop the straight through processing platform.

“Current approaches to natural gas and power clearing require varying degress of manual intervention,” ABN said in a statement. “This initiative addresses the current drive in the energy industry to mitigate risk and improve transparency through substitution of a central cleared counterparty.”

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