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The Club provides a platform for business professionals and leaders in the commodity business. The initiative aims to drive further the transition to a responsible resource sector and brings together commodity professionals in Switzerland.

The Commodity Club Switzerland is a registered association according to Swiss law.

Switzerland is one of the world’s leading hubs for commodity trading: Geneva, Zug and Lugano together handle a substantial share of the global flows in energy, metals and agricultural products. The Commodity Club Switzerland was founded to give the professionals behind that industry a place to meet, compare views and discuss the questions that shape their daily work — from price formation and trade finance to shipping, inspection, compliance and the regulatory environment they operate in.

Our members come from trading houses, banks and insurers, from law firms, inspection and logistics companies, and from academia and public administration. That mix is deliberate: a trader, a credit officer and a lawyer look at the same transaction from very different angles, and the discussion gains from having all of them in the room. Recurring themes include the energy transition and responsible sourcing, sanctions and counterparty risk, the digitalisation of trade documents, and the future of commodity finance in Switzerland.

The Club works through regular dinner and lunch events, board meetings, conferences and panel discussions with speakers from the industry and from the authorities, educational trips to production sites and trading floors, and its own publications — articles, papers and contributions to the press. Membership is open to companies and to individuals active in, or closely connected to, the commodity sector, and the Club is run by its board independently of any single market participant.