The mining industry is suffering after a decade of underinvestment. Macroeconomic pressures have further reduced a pool of money that was already limited. These issues seem to fly in the face of the received wisdom on the world’s urgent demand for metal, so what options are available to prospective miners fundraising today?

The TXF Global Commodity Finance & Sustainable Natural Resources event is back next week in Amsterdam and will gather the who’s who of commodity finance - from traders, platform providers and banks to funds, insurers and brokers.

It’s not every day that bills of lading make the news, but an appeal ruling dismissing a $26 million case by a bank against a shipping company is causing ripples that should advance the case for trade digitisation. But will it hit some banks’ willingness to provide commodity trade finance?