30.07.2014 - Commodity finance being done by Trading Houses
A story recently in Reuters talked about how the biggest trading houses are filling the traditional banks (and mostly European banks role) of funding traders. This got particular attention, especially in light of the Obama administrations sanctions on Rosneft and other big Russian commodity producers. If you look at the big trading houses, do they really want to take over the role of banks (who have access to historically cheap deposits?). Or is it really a question of providing these large trading houses with huge credit lines to further provide upstream finance to their smaller counterparties?..............................................Full Article: Source
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