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Mexico sees return to normality for oil hedging
Banks’ ability to act as a counterparty is “back to a very normal situation” after the credit crunch, according to one of the designers of Mexico’s oil price hedging programme.
Energy Risk Deals of the Year 2010
In this extended feature, Energy Risk highlights 10 key deals that have helped to shape and advance the market over the past 12 months.
Deals of the Year: Barclays Capital
BarCap structures hedging facility for Chesapeake Energy
ETNs poised for a comeback
Worries over counterparty credit risk stymied the development of the market for exchange-traded notes, but as those concerns recede and the products spread outside their home in the US, 2010 could be the year that the investments come into their own. By…
The cream of the crop
The Structured Products Awards for Europe 2009 were presented on November 18 at the Park Plaza Victoria in London by celebrity guest speaker, the comedian Sean Lock. Barclays Capital was named house of the year and Credit Suisse took the award for equity…
BarCap launches LNG services with Excelerate deal
Barclays Capital today launched a liquefied natural gas (LNG) services offering with a new agreement to market Excelerate Energy’s LNG cargoes in the northeast US market.
Russia permits national bank to sell AAUs
According to reports today, Russia has given the go-ahead to its largest national bank, Sberbank, to sell the country’s Assigned Amount Units (AAUs), prompting fears of a potential flood of AAUs entering the market pre-2013.