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February
Nedbank Capital has appointed former Standard Chartered agribusiness specialist as its new head of African business.
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January
Watson Farley Williams’ partner, Celia Gardiner, provides a simple guide to borrowing base facilities, an increasingly popular structured commodity financing instrument for both traders and commodity producers.
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Banks have signed a structured commodity facility on behalf of Senegalese groundnut producer Suneor.
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Banks have launched a new three-year pre-export financing yesterday on behalf of Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod).
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Standard Chartered Bank’s private equity division has acquired a minority stake in African soft commodity trader Export Trading Group.
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Cheap resources underpinned economic growth for much of the 20th century. The 21st will be different.
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While the US and Europe struggle, the Asia-Pacific region has prospered, propping up global prices for commodities across the spectrum from metals and minerals to food and cooking oils. Graeme Burton examines the scene.