Crypto & Politics: Insights from Former Congressman David McIntosh
Podcast - Cracking Down on Carbon Markets: CFTC and FTC Exercise Heightened Scrutiny
How Technology Has Transformed Today’s Agriculture Commodities Market
Risky Business: Effective Commodity Risk Management
A Discussion on Environmental Commodities with Bill Flederbach, President and CEO at ClimeCo
JONES DAY TALKS®: CFTC and DOJ Target Derivatives Trading Across Industries
A Look Ahead at the Biden Administration’s Regulatory and Enforcement Priorities
Path Forward: Borrowing Base Redeterminations In A Restructuring World
Episode 3 - The Freeman Law Project - Cryptocurrency Regulation and Taxation: A Brief Primer
Regulation 2013: Dodd-Frank Position Limits, CFTC Reuthorization, Regulatory Harmonization
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Over the past few decades, the commodity and energy trading and risk management (C/ETRM) landscape for the natural gas industry has been stable, dominated by a select few big players in the market – namely, ION Endur or...more
Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD)’s 2024 Energy Transition Outlook Survey Report points to a new phase in the multi-generational journey to Net Zero. While 56% of our respondents are deepening their focus on their transition...more
The current landscape of M&A and A&D dealmaking in the U.S. oil and gas industry looks a lot different than what it did in the 2015-2019 period. During the pandemic, commodity prices sank to historically low levels (WTI crude...more
A ban on services related to the maritime transport of Russian-origin crude oil sold above a pre-determined price cap of $60 per barrel began on December 5, 2022, with a similar price cap ban related to other Russian-origin...more
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Find out why rising crude oil prices could pose a hyperinflationary threat to the U.S. economy....more
Find out why an effective risk management strategy requires developing robust economic forecasting tools that simulate future cash flows. One such tool uses the “real-option” theory to model flexibility associated with energy...more
In a rare cyber win for the good guys (at least one that’s publicly acknowledged), the DOJ revealed on Monday that it “had seized much of the ransom that a major U.S. pipeline operator had paid last month to a Russian hacking...more
A survey of how oil and gas producers hedge....more
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A natural gas trader pleaded guilty in federal district court last week to conspiring to commit commodities fraud and wire fraud in an insider trading scheme over natural gas futures. His co-conspirator had pleaded guilty...more
CME Group has announced plans to launch a carbon futures contract intended to offer a transparent, standardised and market-based solution to manage global emissions risk. ...more
Find out why ESG and sustainability investing will likely be a permanent fixture among oil and gas companies, as well as their investors and stakeholders, for years to come....more
How will oil and gas companies adapt to tightening bank loan requirements amid commodity price uncertainty and an ongoing pandemic going forward? Opportune Managing Director David Morris explains on the latest episode of...more
Haynes and Boone recently released its fall Borrowing Base Redeterminations Survey. Since 2015, the firm has conducted the survey twice annually to ask executives at banks, producing companies, private equity sponsors,...more
Find out why the latest oil and gas bankruptcy cycle presents opportunities for onshore drillers to weather the storm. ...more
Aligning essential elements for effective commodity risk management ensures energy companies can weather commodity price volatility....more