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SIFW CO-ORGANISERS

SGX Commodities is a global price discovery centre for key commodities powering Asia’s growth, with an expansive offering across iron ore, steel, shipping, rubber and energy providing a one-stop, capital-efficient venue for hedging, price discovery, and trading.

Since pioneering the world’s first cleared iron ore swaps, SGX Commodities has grown to become the world’s most liquid marketplace for seaborne iron ore and dry bulk freight derivatives. With our best-in-class and award-winning venue, SGX Commodities seeks to play a key role in the risk management and price discovery of new energy sources, in the global net-zero drive. 

Our group subsidiaries – Baltic Exchange is the world’s leading independent source of maritime market information for the trading and settlement of physical and derivatives contracts, offering benchmark indices for global shipping rates.

For more information on SGX Commodities, visit sgx.com/commodities

Green Esteel – A significantly growing vertically integrated green steel operator in the world

Green Esteel is a rapidly growing green steel operator headquartered in Singapore, with key production facilities in Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia. The company expands its capacity and advances its technology leadership through strategic acquisitions and mergers with established industry players.

Currently, the company owns Malaysia’s Antara HBI plant, which has been in operation for over 40 years and leads the industry with its mature gas-based direct reduced iron (DRI) and hot briquetted iron (HBI) technology. Additionally, BRC Asia, which has been in operation for over 80 years, is Singapore’s largest rebar processing and distribution center, renowned globally for its pioneering and long-standing rebar processing solutions. Green Esteel is also attracting global attention with its new green steel industrial park under construction in Sabah, Malaysia.

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Enterprise Singapore is the Singapore government agency championing enterprise development. It also supports the growth of Singapore as a hub for global trading and startups.

The agency attracts global commodities traders to establish their global or Asian home base in Singapore. Today, Singapore is a leading global trading hub with a complete ecosystem for the energy, agri-commodities and metals & minerals trading clusters.

With Enterprise Singapore’s global network in over 35 locations spanning many developed and emerging markets, it connects businesses with relevant Singapore companies for their business expansion.

Visit www.enterprisesg.gov.sg for more information.

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Baltic Exchange is the world’s only independent source of renowned maritime market information for the trading and settlement of physical and derivative contracts. Its international community of over 5,000 members encompasses the majority of world shipping interests and commit to a strict code of business conduct, encapsulated with our motto ‘Our Word, Our Bond’.

Headquartered in London with regional offices in Singapore, Shanghai, Athens, Stamford and Houston, Baltic Exchange members are responsible for a large proportion of dry, wet and gas bulk fixtures, as well as freight derivative trades, air freight and containers data, and the sale and purchase of merchant vessels. Baltic Exchange data is routinely relied upon to settle physical and futures contracts. 

Baltic Exchange is authorised by the United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority. In addition to freight data, it provides dispute resolution, escrow services, and professional education opportunities for the wider shipping industry. It also offers critical shipping investment data, carbon emissions calculators and a Know-Your-Customer platform tailored to those operating in the maritime sector.

Full details, including Baltic Exchange market data and fixtures, can be found at www.balticexchange.com 

Fastmarkets is one of the industry’s leading price-reporting agencies (PRA) and information provider for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics and events for the agriculture, forest products and metals and mining markets. Fastmarkets’ data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management. Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating back to 1865 and is built on trust and deep market knowledge. It has more than 600 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Finland and beyond. For more information, visit https://www.fastmarkets.com/

S&P Global Commodity Insights® provides the market insights so you can make better informed trading and business decisions. We’re the leading independent provider of information and benchmark prices for the commodities and energy markets. Customers in over 190 countries look to our expertise In news, pricing and analytics to deliver greater transparency and efficiency to markets. S&P Global Commodity Insights coverage includes oil and gas, power, petrochemicals, metals, agriculture, and shipping. S&P Global Commodity Insights is a division of S&P Global (NYSE:SPGI), which provides essential intelligence for individuals, companies, and governments to make decisions with confidence. For more information, visit https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en

TradeWinds offers market-leading coverage as it unpacks the key issues across the industry. TradeWinds’ editorial team offers peerless independent journalism, insight, and business intelligence for a global audience of over 250,000 shipping professionals. Since its inception, TradeWinds has become an invaluable resource for members of the shipping industry, covering all aspects of deep-sea commercial shipping – financing, technological innovation, deals, acquisitions, and regulatory changes. TradeWinds also hosts high-profile events worldwide, bringing together some of the industry’s key figures to discuss a range of topics that affect the sector. TradeWinds is part of DN Media Group.

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ABN AMRO Clearing is a global leader in the domain of clearing, offering access to a wide range of listed instruments on markets across the globe. Our clients can select to open an account in one of our local offices in APAC, EU or US and receive their daily position reporting on a regional basis.

For more information, visit https://www.abnamro.com/clearing/en/home

BPI Financial Group Limited (BPI Financial) is a boutique financial services firm. We provide our clients  a full suite of financial services which include trading access to global markets, clearing of exchange traded and OTC products, inter-dealer brokerage services in OTC commodity markets, access to Chinese commodity derivatives markets, hedging solutions and structured trade services.  

For more information, visit https://bpifinancial.com/

Marex Group plc (NASDAQ: MRX) is a diversified global financial services platform providing essential liquidity, market access and infrastructure services to clients across energy, commodities and financial markets.

The Group provides comprehensive breadth and depth of coverage across four core services: Clearing, Agency and Execution, Market Making and Hedging and Investment Solutions. It has a leading franchise in many major metals, energy and agricultural products, with access to 60 exchanges. The Group provides access to the world’s major commodity markets, covering a broad range of clients that include some of the largest commodity producers, consumers and traders, banks, hedge funds and asset managers.

Headquartered in London with more than 40 offices worldwide, the Group has over 2,300 employees across Europe, Asia and the Americas. 

For more information, visit https://www.marex.com/

S&P Global Commodity Insights® provides the market insights so you can make better informed trading and business decisions. We’re the leading independent provider of information and benchmark prices for the commodities and energy markets. Customers in over 190 countries look to our expertise In news, pricing and analytics to deliver greater transparency and efficiency to markets. S&P Global Commodity Insights coverage includes oil and gas, power, petrochemicals, metals, agriculture, and shipping. S&P Global Commodity Insights is a division of S&P Global (NYSE:SPGI), which provides essential intelligence for individuals, companies, and governments to make decisions with confidence. For more information, visit https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en

StoneX Group Inc. is a Fortune 500 financial services company connecting businesses, institutions, traders, and investors to global markets. With a legacy dating back over a century to Saul Stone’s early work in egg wholesaling, StoneX has grown into a trusted provider of customized trading, risk management, and market intelligence solutions. Today, StoneX serves more than 54,000 commercial, institutional, and payments clients, along with over 400,000 retail accounts across five continents. For more information, visit www.stonex.com.

For more information, visit https://www.stonex.com/

EPL Alliance was established in 2003 in Singapore as a Dedicated Wines and Spirits Exporter. During the time our overseas representation is confined to certain countries in Asia. But throughout the years, EPL had Achieved tremendous success in the trade and managed to emerge as significant player with an established portfolio of International Wines & Spirits agencies for ASEAN and other emerging markets in the Asia Region.

​Our Expansion plans in recent years have also seen us progressing from a one – stop International distributor for international brands, establishing our own brands of wines and moving into frozen poultry business.

​Our own brands of wine such as: Vino Fernandaz Chilean Wine, Grand Jacques French Wine, Ngew Dino Italy Moscato and Chilean 7 Gran Reserve wines have seen successful feedback and growth in the region.

​With Knowledge of the local condition and demand from different region developed gradually, EPL Alliance has expanded its business hub from Singapore to Hong Kong, Indonesia-Jakarta and Malaysia-Johor and Indochina. These business hubs were meant to provide efficient transactions with products ranging from Beers, Cognac to Premium fine wines such as Penfolds to be ready available at necessary times to meet the needs and demand from the clienteles.

Today EPL Alliance Pte Ltd is a conglomerate of 7 other subsidiary companies in Asia with significant presence in most Asia countries.

For more information, visit https://www.epl-alliance.com/

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S&P Global Commodity Insights® provides the market insights so you can make better informed trading and business decisions. We’re the leading independent provider of information and benchmark prices for the commodities and energy markets. Customers in over 190 countries look to our expertise In news, pricing and analytics to deliver greater transparency and efficiency to markets. S&P Global Commodity Insights coverage includes oil and gas, power, petrochemicals, metals, agriculture, and shipping. S&P Global Commodity Insights is a division of S&P Global (NYSE:SPGI), which provides essential intelligence for individuals, companies, and governments to make decisions with confidence. For more information, visit https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en

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Local China Footprint

Established in April 2015, we have cultivated a strong local presence in China with offices located in Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, and Hong Kong as well as global offices in Singapore, and Houston. Within China, our clients include Mutual Funds, Hedge Funds, Corporates, and other institutional investors, constituting over 90% of assets under management in the Chinese fund industry. We stand as the largest independent research provider covering the Chinese A-Share market and China-related commodities.

Access to All Levels of our Research Analysts

As a boutique firm, we pride ourselves on our agility, responding promptly to client requests and offering swift access to our team of research analysts. Our unique research approach combines top-down analysis with bottom-up observations across industry chains, uncovering long-term investment trends to generate systematic, stable returns for our clients.

Unique Research Approach

At Horizon Insights, we distinguish ourselves by conducting local surveys across industries for accurate, real-time insights into China’s economy. Our focus on macroeconomic analysis, commodities, industry-specific equity research, and on-the-ground company surveys enables us to formulate, implement, and monitor targeted investment strategies. For more information, visit https://www.hzinsights.com/