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The Trading Pope

Christian Weyer: his name is known only to specialists. Yet it is he who has helped to make Geneva a world trading capital. Still active at age 84, he agreed to speak for the first time.

Christian Weyer removes his glasses and mobilizes his intact memory. To tell his story, he must rejuvenate nearly forty years. A world. At the end of the 1960s, the signature of a Turkish bank is not worth much, the Bombay Merchants are famous for arguing endlessly, China does not exist on commercial cards.

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Conversation with a trade finance officer

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

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Grain trading & Blockchain & AI?

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.

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