Features
Regulation: Congress throws an energy bash
Seeing the bigger picture must be the priority for US energy regulation, says Jim Kharouf [more]
Biofuels: Facing the new environmental challenges
Governments are promoting environmental policies, particularly those aimed at reducing the reliance on oil, but the debate continues as to whether biofuels are the answer. Anuszka Mogford looks at the industry and the growing ethanol futures market [more]
Prop profile: Rich pickings
Schneider Trading Associates is one of the leading proprietary trading firms in London. With a top-class training programme, an in-house psychologist and runners to fetch errands for the traders, it is a unique place to work. Vishala Sri-Pathma spent time with the firm [more]
Q&A: Nick Tranter: BNP Paribas looks to the future
BNP Paribas dodged the worst of the subprime crisis by limiting its exposure to securities linked to US real estate loans. With an equity derivatives business ranked as one of the best in the world, and having secured Bank of America’s prime brokerage unit in June, FOW spoke with Nick Tranter, European head of flow sales, equities and derivatives [more]
New products: Coal is the new oil
ASX and ICE plan to enter the same market, but with marked differences in their approaches. Natalie Coomber analyses the potential of both [more]
MF Global's baptism of fire
The first year as a listed company did not quite go to plan for Kevin Davis and his team. Paul Francis-Grey reports [more]
India growth remains stunted
The Indian government has taken further steps towards curbing inflation. Vishala Sri-Pathma investigates the impact this will have on the commodities market [more]
Case study: Airline fuel costs: Airlines hedge oil exposures
Colin Packham analyses whether derivatives are saving the airline industry from the soaring cost of oil [more]
Dark pools: Options trading goes dark
Dark pools are creating waves in the equities market. Vishala Sri-Pathma looks at whether they can transform equity options trading [more]
Derivatives laboratory: Structured equity products – yield-enhanced notes
Satyajit Das explores the different forms of yield-enhanced notes [more]
Eco warrior: Carbon waves a Pacific patchwork
From New Zealand to Japan, Jim Kharouf looks at the
development of the Asian carbon markets [more]
Exchange alphabet: Forts on Russian Trading System
FOW goes back to school and trawls through the alphabet to profile an exchange each month that might not initially be on your radar [more]
First person: ‘Mr Chairman, it’s the State Department’
Philip McBride Johnson, head of exchange-traded derivatives law practice Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates, and past chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, delves into the closed-door discussions surrounding the subprime crisis [more]
First person: Fed OTC didn't go far enough
A few buckets of exchange-traded sunshine need to be shed on to the OTC murk, says Greg Newton [more]