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Perspective
10 December 2015

Commodity investor interviews: Scipion Capital - taking on the traders

Region:
Middle East & Africa
Senior Reporter
In part two of our interview series, TXF’s Helen Castell talks to Scipion Capital vice president Ben Storrs about how trade finance funds and specialist commodity investors are offering an alternative to global traders’ supply chain finance and plugging a gap that local African banks can no longer fill.

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