Limit on investment by insurers is hitting issuance of Formosa bonds and related options Source: Risk feed

The U.S. port district of Houston-Galveston in Texas recently began exporting more crude oil than it imported for the first time on record. Crude oil exports from the Houston-Galveston port district have increased since the restrictions on U.S. crude oil…

Finastra today announced that National Bank of Egypt (UK) Limited is deploying Fusion Treasury and Fusion Risk. The treasury and risk solutions will be tightly integrated with the bank’s existing Fusion Equation core banking system – helping the bank to deliver…

Aachen (Germany), August 20, 2018 – As the intraday activities of German trading floors often limited themselves to EPEX SPOT SE, the XBID trading system has given traders a simple option for short-term, international power trading since June 12. The…

Source: Financial Times, 20th August 2018 Bourses hold nerve while oil prices find support despite sustained dollar strength Read the full article on FT.com Source: Commodities Now – Power and Energy – Stocks rally ahead of US-China trade talks and…

While there has been little news on the MiFID II side of things recently for those in energy and commodities, there has been movement in the wider financial world since our last post here. This article on the Bloomberg web…

The ongoing US-China trade war has raised concerns about a key driver of LNG shipping demand – the trade flow between the US and China – but it is also expected to further the commoditization of LNG as it creates…

Source: Financial Times, 20th August 2018 Currencies and bond markets hold steady while oil prices retreat Read the full article on FT.com Source: Commodities Now – Power and Energy – Asia stocks broadly higher as US-China trade talks loom Continue…

Source: Financial Times, 19th August 2018 EPA move to water down standard could reduce demand for corn as producer profits slide Read the full article on FT.com Source: Commodities Now – Power and Energy – Midwest farmers take Trump to…

Source: Financial Times, 19th August 2018 System adopted by industry-funded group backed by the likes of BP and ExxonMobil Read the full article on FT.com Source: Commodities Now – Power and Energy – Saipem’s robots set to cap undersea oil…

NEW YORK (Reuters) by Devika Krishna Kumar – Two of the world’s largest energy-focused hedge funds, Andurand Capital and BBL Commodities, suffered double-digit percentage losses in July as oil prices plunged by the most in two years, sources familiar with the…

In May 2018, coal inventories, or stockpiles, in the electric power sector totaled 128 million short tons (MMst), 34 MMst (21%) lower than in May 2017, and the lowest at that time of year since 2014. Stockpiles have averaged 35…

Non-cleared exposures are thought to exceed $1.5 trillion Source: Risk feed

Venezuela’s beleaguered oil company PDVSA tried to use US sanctions to its own advantage recently — a bold move that ultimately failed. This played out in a US legal dispute over a Canadian gold miner seeking to recoup assets seized…

Source: Financial Times, 17th August 2018 Lira 0.4% weaker in Asia trading but remains well off record lows Read the full article on FT.com Source: Commodities Now – Technology and Commodity – Asian stocks higher as US-China trade worries recede…

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LONDON (Reuters) by John Kemp – If the global economy starts to grow more slowly, the impact will show up first in the price of refined fuels such as road diesel, marine gasoil and jet fuel that play a central…

Between 2008 and 2017, more than 103 gigawatts (GW) of renewable generating capacity entered service in the United States, of which only 14 GW is certified to have qualifying facility small power producer status under the Public Utility Regulatory Policies…

We are back after a short break for the summer. Last week, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority published this research note into the thresholds used in EMIR for Financial Counterparties (FC) for two purposes: The threshold used to determine when…

Three-year relief may allow more clearing members to join, but hurdles to full recognition remain Source: Risk feed