Commodity derivatives
Icap Energy acquires European biofuels broker
Icap Energy announce acquisition of biofuels broker Sun Commodities
Mining companies remain unhedged, despite Chinese clouds
The hedge of reason
Singapore commodity derivatives regulation set for overhaul
Financial authorities in Singapore have recommended consolidating the oversight of all commodity derivatives and futures to one regulatory body, as part of a proposed broader move to regulate the country's derivatives market in line with international…
Asia Risk 2012 commodity rankings – voting now closed
Have your say in who are the top commodities dealers
Start of 2012 sees surge in commodities ETF launches
A bumper crop
Energy markets face huge change under Mifid II
New ground rules
Risk and Energy Risk commodity rankings 2012: energy
Finding value in energy volatility
Risk and Energy Risk commodity rankings 2012: metals
Hard times for metals markets
Commodity and energy derivatives house of the year: JP Morgan
Risk awards 2012
Companies cautious on hedging in headline-driven energy markets: consultants
Energy-intensive companies are reluctant to pursue aggressive hedging programmes in the current market environment, where headlines are having a disproportionate effect on prices compared with the fundamentals, say consultants
Renewable energy companies increase derivatives use: survey
Companies in the renewable energy industry are increasingly turning to financial derivatives to manage risk
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Turning points: Joseph Pokalsky
Pauline McCallion speaks to energy trading veteran Joseph Pokalsky about the early days of Enron, picking up the pieces in the energy sector after its collapse and new challenges facing the energy sector today
Ten years after its collapse, Enron lives on in energy markets
Charting the Enron legacy
Sponsored Q&A: BNP Paribas
Asian commodity markets react to volatility
Reach of Dodd-Frank concerns energy players in Asia
Participants at Energy Risk’s Asia conference in Singapore criticised the long arm of US regulation, even as others said firms were showing willingness to voluntarily adopt clearing and pre-trade risk management
Energy Risk Asia: Dodd-Frank could hit Asian energy firms hard
Panellists at the Energy Risk Asia conference voice concerns over the extraterritorial implications of the Dodd-Frank Act
Speculation not a major cause of commodity market volatility: FOA
Futures and Options Association report refutes negative impact of speculators on commodities markets
Brokers welcome Iosco commodity derivatives supervision principles
The recommendations of global regulators to harmonise commodity derivatives regulation have received praise from brokers for not trying to divide 'speculation' from 'hedging'
Cutting edge: solutions for three-asset spread options
A Kirk’s and a Bachelier’s formula for three-asset spread options
CME, Ice to launch repositories rivalling the DTCC
Banks have picked the DTCC to build a series of new derivatives repositories, but overlooked rivals CME and Ice vow to fight on
Cutting edge – multi-scale volatility in commodity markets
This paper deals with volatility estimation in commodity markets. Piotr Grzywacz and Krzysztof Wolyniec note that energy commodities have many time (volatility) scales, which has dramatic implications for mean-reversion and volatility estimation. They…