Who’s afraid of the whistleblower?

As Gensler and the Democrats continue to face off against the Republicans and Wall Street over the consequences of the Dodd-Frank Act, one thing is clear; corporations will continue to try to mitigate their exposure to risk through greater oversight of the information they handle and process. This is not simply because they had trouble figuring out their real risk exposure during the collapse of the financial markets in 2008, but also due to the greater transparency required in their transactions, and new incentives for whistleblowers to turn them in.

Could the Spread Between Brent and WTI Skyrocket Fueled by Egypt Events?

Events in Egypt and the potential  for this unrest to overflow to the neighboring regions sparked a disturbance among commodity analysts. A lot of analysts kindly added fuel to the public speculations that energy markets were facing a tremendous blow. Some of them were seeing the danger resulting from cuts in oil production in the Middle East. Others […]