Posts Tagged ‘Commodities Trade’

To help demystify some of the greatest challenges facing the shipping and freight forwarding industry today, Trade Finance Global (TFG)’s Deepesh Patel spoke with Director of HR Maritime, Richard Watts.

At Commodity Trading Week (CTW) in London, where the commodity community was gathered for two days, Deepesh Patel, Editorial Director, Trade Finance Global (TFG) spoke with Ben Hillary, Managing Director at Commodities People.

TFG’s Deepesh Patel & TXF’s Jonathan Bell discuss the past decade of commodity finance, the next 10 years, and TXF’s conference in Amsterdam.

Read the latest edition of Trade Finance Talks, “Commodities & The Economy: Is 2024 the year the industry pops?”

What is the outlook for commodity trading in 2024? Marsh’s Aaron Bailey and Christopher Coppock provide their views.

In a recent episode of the CII podcasts, Mark Abrams, MD, and Global Head of Trade & Receivables Finance at Trade Finance Global (TFG), engaged in a thought-provoking conversation with Jayant Sriram, an ex-journalist. The episode discusses crucial aspects of international trade and finance, shedding light on challenges and innovative solutions shaping the industry.

Central Asia is becoming increasingly attractive to investors. It has abundant natural resources and is strategically located, leading to its reputation as a region with untapped economic potential.

Industrialisation is a critical component of economic development, with many benefits that include improved standard of living, economic stability, growth in agricultural production, the balance of payment surpluses and high employment rates. 

The recent rout in bank shares will not have a knock-on effect on commodities, global trading firm Trafigura’s chief financial officer Christophe Salmon told the Financial Times Commodities Global Summit… read more →

This article was co-authored by:

– Arun Prakash, strategy officer for trade and commodity finance at IFC
– Dennis Ochieng, economist at IFC
– Shanshan Li, consultant at IFC

TFG’s Deepesh Patel spoke to ITFA’s Chairman, Sean Edwards, about the ITFA Structured Letters of Credit Working Group, and the emergence of Structured Letters of Credit as a variant of Traditional LCs.

Gunvor Group has successfully closed a new US $540 million borrowing base facility to support the Company’s biodiesel trading activity. The Facility drew strong support among Gunvor’s banking partners, which… read more →

Trade Finance Global (TFG), today announced a media partnership with Reuters Events flagship Commodity Trading Summit, a virtual series of events featuring commodity producers, traders, buyers and investors.

TFG caught up with Private insurance and risk mitigation experts Simon and Carol from The Texel Group, speaking on policies, types of insurance product, where the CPRI market might be headed in a post-pandemic world and appetite in 2020.

Europe is a large and attractive market for commodities, heavily dominated by Russian exporters, or at least it was, until Donald Trump stepped into power. His promise to supply Eastern… read more →