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September 01, 2010

Dodd-Frank and the Move to Clearing

PLATTS INSIGHT ©2010 by PLATTS, THE MCGRAW-HILL COMPANIES
After the financial crisis of 2008, the leaders of the G20 countries met in Pittsburgh in September, 2009 and stated: “All standardized OTC derivative contracts should be traded on exchanges or electronic trading platforms, where appropriate, and cleared through central counterparties by end-2012 at the latest.”
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June 01, 2010

The Value of Central Counterparty Clearing

IECA JOURNAL ©2010
In this article, we will review why the multiple safeguards used in the clearing process reduce counterparty risk and detail why cleared transactions should be used as a key part of any strategy to reduce corporate risk.
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June 01, 2010

Nodal Exchange – Innovation of the Year

ENERGY RISK ©2010
The winner of our Innovation of the Year award is Nodal Exchange. Established in April 2009, Nodal Exchange is the first independent electronic commodities exchange to offer locational, or nodal, futures contracts to the organized North American electric power markets.
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May 01, 2010

Policy and Nodal Markets

ENERGY METRO DESK ©2010 by SCUDDER PUBLISHING GROUP, LLC.
“We believe in central counterparty clearing as being a good idea, regardless of whether it’s mandatory or not. We don’t know how the legislative elements will turn out, but we certainly understand why the government is so enamored with the central clearing model… it does reduce systemic risk,” Cusenza says.
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May 01, 2010

Pass the Microphone: Cusenza to Grensted

ENERGY RISK ©2010
In this month’s Pass the Microphone, Paul Cusenza of Nodal Exchange puts his questions to Simon Grensted, Managing Director, Business Development, at LCH.Clearnet
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April 01, 2010

Pass the Microphone: Preston to Cusenza

ENERGY RISK ©2010
What have power trading and personal genetics got in common, and what are the advantages of a clearing house using VAR to calculate margin? Ben Preston, head of power trading at Macquarie Energy, puts his questions to Paul Cusenza, CEO of Nodal Exchange
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