Carbon
The atmosphere has too much carbon. This poses an existential threat to society and to the businesses emitting it, unless they start to capture it. Tackling carbon is one of the biggest challenges (an...
10 Maalis 202146min
The World for Sale: A conversation with the authors
In this episode, Javier Blas and Jack Farchy join us to talk about their new book, The World for Sale. The book spans the history of the rise of the independent commodity traders, their phenomenal suc...
3 Maalis 20211h 2min
Through a Mirror, Darkly: The art of measuring risk in commodities
Measuring risk is at the core commodity trading and Value At Risk is its most common expression. However, as frequent outsized and unexpected losses, stop outs and personnel departures attest, all our...
24 Helmi 202144min
The Coming Commodity Super-Cycle
In this episode Jeff Currie, Global Head of Commodity Research at Goldman Sachs, walks us through the drivers and consequences of the coming commodity super-cycle. Over the next decade, redistributive...
17 Helmi 202152min
Cybersecurity & Commodities
The commodities sector is rich, of strategic national interest, at the center of geopolitics, and environmentally impactful. Thus, it is a focal target for cyber-attacks from criminals, national actor...
10 Helmi 202143min
The EV tipping point: consequences for the commodities world
Our guest, Arcady Sosinov, CEO and Founder of Freewire Technologies, believes Electric Vehicles present the biggest industrial change and opportunity in our lifetimes. With most major automobile manuf...
3 Helmi 202153min
Trading Data
Commodities trading has always been about having an informational edge. About having better data. With digitalization, data is now produced in exponentially larger quantities and so has our capacity t...
27 Tammi 202145min
The Biggest Risk in Commodity Trading: Compliance
Energy and commodity trading is complex (consider both its physical and financial nature), and so are the rules and regulations surrounding it. Multiple regulators, jurisdictions and standards can app...
20 Tammi 202142min
