Market Updates & Outlook
Inflation Post Covid-19
This session looks at post-pandemic blip, or a long term economic crisis, what can we expect from interest rates, and mitigation strategies
Natural Gas and the Net-Zero Revolution
This session looks at the outlook for North American natural gas, the bridge to net zero, LNG markets in the wake of Ukraine war, and RNG/RSG
Regulatory Outlook
What are the major initiatives planned by US and EU regulatory bodies? Sanction updates in key commodity markets.
Metals moving markets
Overview and pricing forecast for base metals
Sustainable Trade Finance – The Road Ahead
• Evolution not revolution? Adapting traditional trade mechanisms whilst driving change • Demonstrating best practice in climate transparency and calculation of carbon footprints • A look into sustainability linked loans – what is available and what products/structures are likely to emerge? • What are the opportunities of climate finance in ...
Access to Capital: Where Can I Get Financed?
• How have events in Ukraine impacted the global market for commodity trade finance? • Should investors & lenders fear the ‘structured LC’ or are they an important part of the mix, if done ‘correctly’? • Is traditional financing still feasible for SMEs? What alternative finance mechanisms/ routes are available? ...
Transitioning Commodity Trade Finance Into a New Era
• Sustainability, supercycles, digitalisation – Impact of key industry megatrends on CTF • What are the key investment and project execution challenges while transitioning to a net zero world and how can we mitigate? • Buckle your seatbelts? The short, medium and long term impacts of the supercycle on financing ...
Trading the Transition – Maximising Opportunities in Carbon and Other ESG Linked Markets
• An overview of the global carbon markets of greatest interest, how to access and their outlooks • Development of global methane offset markets; implications for agri-traders • Hydrogen markets – what will the opportunities be? • What are the secondary trading opportunities developing from the transition? Examining the markets ...
From Globalisation to Localisation?
• Exploring the drivers of localising supply chains: sustainability, volatility, disruption. • Reduction in choice? Higher costs? Or the reverse? • Is this the only true way of future-proofing supply chain strategy from pandemics, disruptions and economic changes • Who really wins? Consumer, seller… or both?
