A new consensus pricing service for energy derivatives could help cast light on the murky world of energy derivatives trading and the endless scandals that it seems to generate.
Enron’s energy derivatives trading business was at the heart of the scandal that brought down what was once America’s seventh-largest company. It now appears, though, that Enron was merely the initiator of a trend for energy derivatives traders to get involved in financial malpractice. Dynegy, Duke Energy, and even that paragon of risk-aversion, Royal Dutch/Shell, have all found themselves embroiled in scandals relating to how they valued their energy derivatives trades.
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