CRA experts discuss how the regulatory environment for commodity derivative markets is changing, with increased efforts to monitor and deter commodity price manipulation. The economics of manipulation is highlighted by examining the ongoing civil case CFTC vs. Arcadia Petroleum and Parnon Energy et al. The article also differentiates the impact of manipulation and speculation on commodity prices.
Managing private markets risk for US banks
The Bank of England’s (BoE’s) second System-Wide Exploratory Scenario (SWES) tests how stress in private equity (PE) and private credit (PC) could transmit...