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We have issued a new white paper titled ” The Commodity Risk Management Challenge”. It is available in the reports and articles section of this blog as a free download.

The white paper looks at the challenges around risk management faced by commodity traders particularly in physical commodity markets.

A new white paper is available from the Reports and Articles page titled “Preparing for the New Age of Commodities and Derivatives Regulation in Energy Markets. It may be downloaded free of charge.

Rapid changes in market fundamentals created unprecedented price increases across the energy commodity complex with rapid price escalation taking hold in early 2007 and increasing unabated until the third week of July 2008. At that time, the markets began a free fall initiated by the emerging credit crisis that spread from the US to Europe, spawning a global recession that has significantly reduced industrial throughput and demand for all commodities. The full effect of this market collapse (in which bellwether crude prices declined more than 75%) is still emerging. Clearly however, the impacts that have been seen to date are far reaching and lasting, and have resulted in increased public and regulatory scrutiny into markets that had previously been somewhat “dark” for many.

I recently had the pleasure to write a white paper with eka titled “In Search of Total Risk Management:The Physical Factor and Operational Risk Management”. Eka are a CTRM vendor based in India that have historically been focused on Ags and Metals and are constatntly broadening their platform. Recently, they have made several key hires to supplement their team and expand their geographic coverage into Europe and North America.

The white paper can be downloaded from this blog;