Commodity Trade Finance
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Commodity Finance Tracker: Swiss Banks, Trade Finance Structures, and Post-Greensill Trends
Commodity trade finance is the invisible architecture that makes physical commodity trading possible. Without the short-term credit facilities that allow a …
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Commodity Trade Finance in Switzerland: How Trading Houses Fund Billion-Dollar Cargoes
A supertanker carrying two million barrels of crude oil from the Gulf of Oman to Rotterdam represents roughly $150 million in commodity value floating on water for three weeks. Getting that cargo from producer to refinery requires financing — and Swiss-based trading houses and their banking partners have built one of the world's most sophisticated commodity trade finance ecosystems to make those transactions work.