Commodity trade, working capital tools and cashflow solutions for African practitioners.
Despite supplying nearly 15 per cent of the world’s agricultural commodities and over 30 per cent of global mineral reserves, Africa’s commodity markets remain deeply receptive to signals such as price, demand and FX volatility, and with risks from subdued growth and declining commodity demand to compliance costs for Regulation on Deforestation-free Products (EUDR), Africa’s commodity practitioners must increasingly optimise both tight working capital cycles and investment in longer-term operations. This discussion will consider how traders – from SMEs to corporates – can mitigate trade risk and cost barriers, with points for discussion including:
- An outlook on soft and hard commodity price trajectories: How African corporates can optimise cashflow and investment cycles against future price risk
- The working capital suite for African producers and traders: Highlighting the role that structured commodity finance and offtake agreements can play for securing longer-term cash flow
- How can African practitioners appropriately finance tools manage inventory through strategic stockpiling and what can this mean – in times of volatility – for smoothing trade and liquidity cycles in a difficult credit climate?
- Technical and financial priorities for EUDR: The latest thinking on reducing compliance barriers for smallholder farmers and other African commodity practitioners
Deven Balsara, Head, TxB Trade International, Structured Trade Finance, Standard Bank
Dheerie Govender, Chief Executive Officer, SIS Inspections
Eric Li, Head of Competitor Analytics, Banking Research, Crisil Coalition Greenwich.
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