John Stassen is a retired senior partner of the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis.
CONTINUE READINGBob Feduniak was one of the first people on Wall Street to use his expertise with derivatives as the basis for global risk management.
CONTINUE READINGThe Futures and Options Association (now FIA) in 2004 published the latest version of the Grid Trade Master Agreement (GTMA), which is a standard agreement for bilateral trading of UK electricity. It can be supplemented by the Options Annex to the GTMA. In 2005, the FOA (now FIA) also published a standard agreement for trading Renewables Obligation Certificates (ROCs) in the UK – the ROC Trading Master Agreement (ROCTMA).
CONTINUE READINGDennis Murray has been a driving force in the New York clearing and operations arena.
CONTINUE READING“Derivatives are the highest financial life form on the planet…” was the opening of my dust jacket endorsement of Chris Culp’s recent book, Risk Transfer.
CONTINUE READINGLeo Melamed is one of the most prominent leaders of the futures industry and has played a hand in almost all the major industry-wide developments of the past four decades.
CONTINUE READINGKen Tropin is the founder and chairman of Graham Capital Management, one of the largestand most successful commodity trading advisors in recent years.
CONTINUE READINGOf all the brokerage firms that have sought to move the Chicago exchanges into the modern age of financial futures, few have had the influence of Rosenthal Collins and its founder, Les Rosenthal.
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