Unlocking value and improving margins with structured trade financing

Explore how planning and structuring can broaden the use of transformational instruments across oil, gas and other traded commodities.

Trade and structured finance is a key tool in the armory of international commodity traders, and its use has been key to the dramatic rise of independent commodity traders over the last two decades. Used in the right way, it can free up working capital that would otherwise be tied up in commodities on the water or in tank. With this, the cost of lending can be optimized across producers, traders and consumers, and be used to carry out arbitrage or storage deals that might otherwise be constrained due to access to funds. However, accounting concerns or issues around debt classification have led to lower uptake of these techniques in listed companies.

Join EY team and our guest speaker Paul Sullivan, Senior Vice President, Commodities and Global Markets at Macquarie Group to look at some of the instruments and their benefits, as well as their applicability across both listed and independent commodity players. Explore how planning and structuring can potentially broaden the use of these potentially transformational instruments across oil, gas and other traded commodities in the region and across the globe.

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