Newmont executes $3bn sustainability-linked RCF
Peter Lugli, a supply chain finance expert and a veteran of Ariba, Amazon Business and Prime Revenue, takes a closer look at the financial engineering employed by Greensill Capital, especially the term ‘prospective receivables’, a contentious new asset class better coined as ‘ponderables’.
So many negative stories have hit the commodity finance sector through the past year. But it is definitely not all doom and gloom, as the big traders get stronger and the commodity boom looks set to run fuelled by the green energy transition, EVs and infrastructural development.