Trading companies

Book Review : The King of Oil

Damien / 19 February 2021 / Book review - Commodity trading - Trading companies

Book Review : The Secret Club That Runs the World, Inside the Fraternity of Commodity Traders

Damien / 13 November 2020 / Book review - Commodity trading - Trading companies

Book Review : Dynasties of the Sea

Damien / 04 September 2020 / Book review - Shipping - Trading companies

Conversation with a trade finance officer

Damien / 04 February 2020 / Commodity trading - Conversation - Trade finance - Trading companies

As the first conversation received a ton of good feedback ( thanks again for your emails and comments 🙂 ), here is a new interview with my good friend and also teacher Florian. Yeah… you’ve read it right, he is my friend AND banker 😉
As you may know, I’m not a big fan of the banks…! BUT once in a while, I have to put my nice suit on ( preferably grey or navy blue) and meet with them to negotiate financing terms. It’s easy, without financing, commodity trading would not be possible.
NO MONEY => NO DEAL

Grain trading & Blockchain & AI?

Damien / 04 March 2019 / Blockchain - Commodity trading - Trading companies

Grain trading & Blockchain & AI?
I’ll let you read the article and then I’ll give you my 2 cents.


Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM) (“ADM”), Bunge Limited (NYSE: BG) (“Bunge”), Cargill, Incorporated (“Cargill”), and Louis Dreyfus Company (“LDC”) are investigating ways to standardize and digitize global agricultural shipping transactions for the benefit of the entire industry. The companies also seek broad-based industry participation to promote global access and adoption.