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Cocobod – pre-export financing

23 March 2009

Return to form for annual softs deal

Read more: [per-export] [PXF] [Ghana] [Cocobod] [Denton Wilde Sapte] [cocoa]

Returning to the market for its sixteenth year it takes something special to make people sit up take notice of the annual pre-export crop financing for state-owned Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod). In 2008 though there were factors that made the deal significantly stand out from previous outings. First was the amount and the size of the syndicate – the $1 billion pre-export financing had a syndicate of 23 international banks to support the 2008-2009 cocoa harvest....


Poll

Will Russia’s recent ban on grain exports result in a significant rise in private risk insurance claims from grain traders unable to fulfil their contracts?

Yes – there will be more claims. The government’s actions allow traders, with PRI cover, to make claims through contract frustration.
8%
No - the majority of Russia’s wheat production, some 70%-80%, is used for domestic consumption so the contracts represent only a small portion of the total wheat market, limiting the amount of potential claims.
23%
No - traders had a week’s notice before the ban allowing them to secure alternative supplies to fulfil contracts stated as optional origin.
23%
Maybe - but claims are likely to be limited to traders dealing in soft wheat whose contracts demand they source wheat only from Russia.
46%