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 Feb 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 Feb 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 Feb 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 Feb 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 Jan 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 Jan 202142min
ESG: The Newest Risk in Commodities
Every business faces ESG risks. Those risks are heightened in a sector defined by natural resource extraction and consumption, but so are the opportunities. The key to addressing these risks is having...
13 Jan 202142min
Transforming Transportation with Clean Hydrogen
In this episode we focus on Clean Hydrogen’s current and future role in transportation, from the aerospace industry, to shipping, to roads. What is the current state of the technology? Where will we s...
6 Jan 202139min
