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HSBC has appointed Natalie Blyth to the newly created role of global head of commercial banking sustainability, effective immediately. In her new position, Blyth is tasked with driving HSBC’s sustainability plans within commercial banking, in collaboration with group chief sustainability officer Celine Herweijer, who the bank brought in from PwC in February last year. She ...
Despite the continued impact of the pandemic, the disruption to global supply chains and the transformative effect of technology on trade and trade finance, GTR’s most-read stories of 2021 focused on the commodity finance sector. In some cases, the most popular stories – as measured by page views – were outlier events. In one example, ...
Despite a stable end to 2021, the commodity finance industry remains wary of being embroiled in another fraud scandal. Though price rises and strong liquidity have led to booming business at the top end of the market, smaller traders continue to struggle for access to finance. Could strengthening collateral checks or warehouse inspections help mitigate ...
The Commodities Issue takes a look at the key developments across the industry, as it continues to grapple with the fallout from a string of fraud scandals in 2020.
Japanese trading conglomerate Sojitz has been hit with a multi-million dollar fine by US authorities after wayward employees secretly traded Iranian-origin goods in violation of economic sanctions on the country. Sojitz’s Hong Kong subsidiary agreed to pay US$5.2mn to settle allegations by the US sanctions enforcement agency, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), that ...