A Consulting Firm for Commodity Market Participants
DF Commodities specializes in providing consulting services on Trading & Risk Management related to Commodity markets.
We help our clients navigate the complex commodity markets and reduce the overall risk management cost. Our services add efficiency and value.
Our expertise extends to a broad range of commodities including Energy, Agricultural & Soft, Base & Precious Metals, and Currency markets…
Our team has extensive experience in both physical and financial commodity and FX trading.
Trading & Risk Management:
Our process is to analyze clients’ market exposure, understand how exposed they are to market volatility and assess their risk profile, and provide recommendations for optimizations.
Financing Solutions:
The commodity community has been strongly impacted by the Covid-19 crisis, and numerous companies have seen their financing reduced significantly. We understand that commodities are difficult and complex to finance. We work with our clients and counterparties to find innovative financing solutions and structures to address market volatility.
Audit & Training:
In order to understand the steps towards better Risk Management practices, we also provide audit services. We work with our clients to audit their risk and trading processes and models. We analyze the findings and provide bespoke recommendations towards better Risk Management practices.
We also train our clients to better understand financial products : including options, and exotic products
Fintech:
DFCommodities is also very much involved in new financial technologies related to commodity markets, by working on the development of new fintech services
Damien Fleurance
Damien is a senior cross-commodity derivatives trader. He brings a strong expertise in Trading & Risk Management, across all commodity markets. Some of his expertise includes structuring hedging strategies, and derivatives & volatility trading. Damien is specialized in helping clients on a day-to-day basis hedging their market exposure on Energy, Ags & Softs, Metals, etc…
Prior to founding DFCommodities, Damien has over a decade’s experience as a commodity derivatives trader. Damien worked for Cadogan Risk Management, Amius Limited, Armajaro OTC and Société Générale.
Damien holds two Master degrees in Market Finance & Corporate Finance from London Metropolitan University, and Ecole Supérieure de Commerce et de Management.
Energy Markets
We cover a wide range of Energy markets from Crude & Products to Gas & Power. We can also provide an expertise on Green Products, from Emissions to Biomass swaps on EEX…
Agricultural & Soft Markets
We have a strong background in Agricultural & Soft Commodities and understand these markets. We are able to provide in-depth market, trading & volatility analysis for our clients.
Base & Precious Metals
We provide a strong expertise on Base & Precious metals markets. We monitor these markets and are able to provide insights to our clients.
Currency Markets
Commodity exposure do not go without a FX exposure as well. We understand that, and provide Currencies hedging services as well