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Commodity finance: the complete security package

13 June 2024 / Author(s): James Clarke , Nick Tostivin
Issue: May 2021 / Categories: Feature

COVID-19 lockdowns have disrupted commodity transactions and consequential enhanced oversight of borrowers’ businesses has uncovered fraudulent activities. Of utmost importance to any lender in a commodity financing is that the commodity exists and has not been financed by another party. Against this backdrop, in this article, the authors describe a typical security package adopted by commodity financiers under an English law commodity financing.

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