Hedging
Corporates fear CVA charge will make hedging too expensive
Crunch time for corporates
South African tax ruling may just be stay of execution, brokers warned
Stay of execution?
Risk interdealer rankings 2011: Dealers
Dealers enjoyed a bright start to the year but endured a slow second quarter and a savage start to the third as political wrangling over European and US debt contributed to a surge in volatility and risk aversion. For the third year in a row, Deutsche…
Q&A: Gerardo Rodriguez, Mexico's Ministry of Finance and Public Credit
Mexico's 2012 oil hedging programme
Deutsche-Ille ruling changes sales practices for German dealers
Accentuate the negative
Mexico’s hedging programme gears up for 2012
This week Mexico’s Congress will begin to debate the price at which the country hedges its oil exports next year
Mexico driving put skew in Brent, say brokers
The put skew in Brent crude oil is close to its yearly high. This is being driven by the hedging programme of Mexico, as well as more general risk aversion on macroeconomic worries, according to brokers
Special report: Foreign exchange
Asian currencies on the rise
Foreign banks get temporary respite from China’s new ‘Volcker rule’
Foreign banks in China, particularly thinly capitalised branches that are not locally incorporated in the country, greeted a decision by China’s banking regulator to postpone rules aimed at limiting non-hedging business onshore with relief this month…
Energy end-user hedging: BASF's Gonzalez
Alejandro Gonzalez, senior commodities risk manager at the chemicals giant BASF, spoke at Energy Risk USA 2011 in Houston about his approach to hedging in a volatile environment
Energy experts eye Dodd-Frank tech benefits
Data reporting systems may be far from Dodd-Frank friendly in the energy sector, but experts say users are likely to benefit once they are up and running
Dow Jones launches currency-hedged versions of Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index
Dow Jones has integrated a currency hedging mechanism into its benchmark commodities index to meet demand from non-US dollar investors
Position limits will feed risk into real economy, say energy companies
Energy market participants have expressed doubt that European position limits proposals will achieve reductions in market volatility, and warned of unintended consequences for end-users' risk management
S&P launches oil-hedged index to address inflation fears
S&P launches oil-hedged index to address inflation fears
Increase in corporate hedging boosts derivatives industry in Asia
Banks in the Asia-Pacific region have benefited from a more active year in derivatives, as corporates seek to hedge their currency and interest rates exposures following a slowdown during the financial crisis
Small Asian companies exposed to commodity derivatives margin calls
Meeting the calls
Technology innovation of the year
Technology innovation of the year
Inflation-linked structured products attract UK investors as risk appetite recovers
Inflation-linked structured products attracting UK investors
S&P: Negative hedging outlook for nat gas producers
High natural gas supply, weak prices to continue; non-investment grade producers to suffer as current hedges roll off
Time runs out for position limits comments
CFTC’s latest position limits plan attracts thousands of comments; opinion deeply divided; new commissioner to affect final vote