Perspective

22 December 2020

Commodity trade finance: 2020 year-end review

Region:

Middle East & Africa, Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe

Jonathan Bell

Editor-in-chief

In what has been one of the most eventful years for commodity trade finance, we take a long hard look at some of the major happenings and assess what these mean for the sector at large and for future financing.

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