We present a Special Episode of SmarterMarkets™, bringing you exclusive interviews from the FT Commodities Global Summit 2025.
SmarterMarkets™ returned to the annual Financial Times Commodities Global Summit in Lausanne, Switzerland this March, where commodity traders get together to talk about the markets and how they’re navigating them. In retrospect, this year was the calm before the storm of the wide-ranging U.S. tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump.
We partnered with the FT to once again interview commodities markets participants to ask them about the big developments being discussed at the conference this year. We also discussed the ways that markets and market infrastructure need to change to keep pace with the changing commodities trading landscape and what tools and technologies they need most.
We've compiled a selection of those interviews into this Special Episode of SmarterMarkets™ with an introduction by Leslie Hook, Natural Resources Editor for the Financial Times.
If you would like to listen to the full interviews, they are available on the SmarterMarkets™ Presents media portal.
Our guests in order of appearance in this episode are:
Leslie Hook – Natural Resources Editor, FT
Helima Croft – Managing Director and Global Head of Commodity Strategy, RBC Capital Markets
Mark Kristoff – CEO, Traxys
Fernanda Ávila – Congresswoman & Former Secretary of Mining, Ministry of Economy, Argentina
JP Aubin – Co-CEO, BGC Group
Sacha Lifschitz – Head of Battery Materials, Abaxx Exchange
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