Standard Chartered’s origins began in the commodities business more than 150 years ago, when the Bank started financing its customers’ trade business throughout Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Today our strength in commodity risk management builds on that history helping us to become the right partner for hedging, commodity-linked finance and investor products.
Award-Winning Expertise
Leverage our strengths for your risk management needs.
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Asia Risk Awards 2009
Commodity/Energy Derivatives House of the Year |
We cover a broad range of commodities and offer solutions from basic forwards to tailored solutions for clients looking to manage their commodity price risk, raise commodity-linked finance or invest in commodities.
Commodities traded
We offer a variety of commodities including precious and base metals, a broad cross-section of energy products and many agricultural products. We are constantly expanding our commodity offering in response to our clients’ needs.
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Base Metals |
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- Gold
- Silver
- Platinum
- Palladium
- Rhodium
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- Copper
- Aluminium
- Nickel
- Lead
- Zinc
- Tin
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- Coal
- Crude Oil
- Fuel Oil
- Gas Oil
- Kerosene
- Gasoline
- Naphtha
- LPG
- PetChems
- Carbon
- Freight
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- Palm oil
- Cotton
- Sugar
- Wheat
- Corn
- Cocoa
- Soy Complex
- Pulp & Paper
- Coffee
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Commodity Price Risk Management
Commodity price fluctuations can significantly erode profit margins, debt serviceability, credit worthiness and undermine your share price. Standard Chartered provides risk solutions you require to navigate volatile commodity markets – enabling you to hedge against the unexpected.
Quantifying your commodity exposures
By examining all direct and indirect commodity-linked costs and revenues in your business, we can help identify, measure and model your exposure to prices.
The resulting financial model can then be ‘stress tested’ against extreme price movements, enabling you to more accurately quantify and better manage the impact of commodity price fluctuations on your bottom line.
Commodity-linked financing solutions
Standard Chartered offers a range of tailored and flexible financing structures that integrate financing and commodity price risk management. These over-the-counter hedging solutions are specified with respect to size, tenor, currency and settlement to provide a more effective hedge than traditional futures.
Commodity-linked Investments
A desire for greater portfolio diversification and more effective hedging against inflation, and the fact that commodities performance typically has low or even negative correlation with other asset classes, has greatly increased investor interest in commodities.
Standard Chartered offers a wide range of commodity-linked investment strategies to suit all risk appetites and profiles. Our products guarantee all – or a portion of – your principal investment and a return correlated to commodity price movements.
Contact us for additional information
- Singapore +65 6557 8131
- London +44 207 280 3927
- New York +1 212 667 0615
Email: CommodityDerivatives@exchange.standardchartered.com