Scenes from the FT Commodities Global Summit 2024

“This conference is bigger than it’s ever been before. It’s always been a great summit, but year after year, it feels increasingly dynamic.”
Tom Wilson, Natural Resources Editor, Financial Times

Brought to you in part by Abaxx Exchange

We present a special mid-week episode of SmarterMarkets™, bringing you exclusive interviews from the FT Commodities Global Summit 2024.

SmarterMarkets™ was back at the annual Financial Times Commodities Global Summit in Lausanne, Switzerland this April, where the conversation focused on how the commodities traders and markets are navigating the new commodities world order.

We partnered with the FT to interview a wide-range of market participants to ask them how the big developments being discussed at the conference this year – including the pressures from the energy transition, technological innovations like AI, war and geopolitics, changing government regulations, and the end of easy money – were affecting the commodities trading landscape and the way that trading was getting done.

We also asked them to describe the ways that markets and market infrastructure need to adapt and evolve to keep pace with the changing trading landscape and what new tools and technologies would be most useful to their businesses.

We’ve compiled a selection of those interviews into this special episode of SmarterMarkets™. The full interviews for each guest are available on the SmarterMarkets™ Presents media portal.

Our guests in order of appearance are:

Tom Wilson, Natural Resources Editor, Financial Times
Simon Collins, Chairman, HC Group
Helima Croft, Global Head of Commodity Strategy & MENA Research, RBC Capital Markets
Brian Menell, Chairman & CEO, TechMet
Amrita Sen, Co-Founder & Director of Research, Energy Aspects
Jason Tate, Head of European Power Trading and Origination, BP
Michael Curran, Head of Environmental Products, Vitol
Alasdair Were, Head of Environmental Markets, Abaxx Exchange

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David Greely

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