Deregulation
US Treasury hands CCP resolution powers to FDIC
Mnuchin regulatory review explicitly refers to FDIC as receiver under a Title II resolution
Regulators struggle to balance global and local
Global banks merit global rules, but local banks can end up as collateral damage
Keeping global regulatory co-ordination alive
WEF council members call for consistent implementation of current and upcoming rules
US learns to play the Basel game
Mnuchin report marks a US regulatory shift – from leadership to gamesmanship
US Treasury’s leverage fix tipped to boost repo market
US Treasury plan to exempt US government bond exposures expected to help struggling market
Transparency premium: insurers seek swaps reporting reform
US insurers claim their bespoke swaps are being front-run, raising hedging costs
Day-ahead forward premiums in the Texas electricity market
This paper looks at forward and spot market-price convergence in the competitive Texas electricity market in the presence of large-scale wind generation.
Mexican energy regulator looks ahead to greater integration with US
Mexico's energy reform may lead to closer ties with adjacent US states
Tradition’s Pinchin looks back on successes and failures
Broker’s co-founder draws on skills and contacts to launch youth charity
Energy market has bright future, despite bad news
Poor liquidity and bank retreat mask energy market optimism
Ten years after its collapse, Enron lives on in energy markets
Charting the Enron legacy
Building the future energy markets in emerging Asia
Energising the future
Tacking liquidity risk in illiquid power markets
Liquidity turns eastward
Sparking innovation
In the second of two articles tracing the beginnings of energy derivatives trading, Roderick Bruce looks at the development of the natural gas and electricity markets in the US and Europe
The cost of deregulation
US electricity deregulation does not necessarily make prices more competitive, as is shown in this study of New England power prices by Logical Information Machines
Rethinking European power
European energy firms are seeking to reposition their products and strategies in advance of European Union market deregulation. FAME Energy reports
Seam shifts in central Europe
Gordon Feller looks at the changing coal economies of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Slovenia and the effect of electricity sector moves in the region
Climbing the competition Pole
The Polish government hopes to boost competition in the electricity market through a controversial securitisation plan that it will use to buy out long-term contracts between generators and the transmission grid operator. Maria Kielmas reports