Standard Bank’s soft commodity trading services consists of:

• Derivative brokering (the provision of derivative trade services for your account)
• Market Risk Solution Provider (the provision of over the counter trade services for client’s your own account),
• Physical brokering (the provision of a physical brokering service for a fee)
• Buying and selling (buying of spot commodity and simultaneous forward sale)
• Physical position taking (forward buy/sell with anticipation of basis price improvement)

Our extensive network across Africa and emerging markets is positioned to provide financial solutions throughout the commodity-related trade value chain.

Structured trade is composed of:

• Back-to-back payment instruments
• Discounting/refinancing of payment instruments
• Discounting of receivables, invoices, and contracts
• Pre-shipment financing
• Post-shipment financing
• Inventory financing
• Tradable silo certificate financing
• Untradeable silo certificate/warehouse receipt financing
• Tolling
• Collateral monitored structures
• Collateral managed structures