Trafigura

Trafigura floods LME Malaysia warehouses with aluminium: sources

LME aluminium stocks at Port Klang jump nearly 100,000 tonnes on Oct 30 to 366,850 tonnes

As gold prices soared to successive records and silver rallied to the highest levels in more than a decade, precious metals have become big profit drivers of commodity trading houses like Trafigura.

Trafigura hires traders for deeper push into gold and silver

The move could eventually see the trading house handle refined bullion bars

Trafigura put its troubled Port Pirie lead smelting operations in South Australia and its zinc processing operations in Hobart, Tasmania, under strategic review earlier this year.

Australia to provide A$135 million bailout for Trafigura lead, zinc smelters

[MELBOURNE] The Australian government said on Tuesday it will provide A$135 million (S$112.5 million) in financial support for two smelters owned by Nyrstar, a unit of commodity trader Trafigura, in t...

Share buybacks are the main way that Trafigura rewards the roughly 1,400 employees that own the company, and have been a conduit for vast riches in recent years.

Trafigura’s buyback headache grows amid fresh wave of exits

The departures have continued this year with a fresh wave of senior exits

The suspects include an employee of commodity trader Trafigura Group who was a business development manager during the period in question.

Indonesia detains Trafigura employee in 285 trillion rupiah graft case

The company is providing legal representation while awaiting further details about the allegations

Trafigura said it expects volatility to continue over the remainder of 2025, but cautioned that it may not flow through to earnings. 

Trafigura flags trading headwinds as payouts outstrip profit

TRAFIGURA Group warned that market volatility may not translate to opportunities for its traders, as the commodity giant reported first-half results that showed its dividend payments exceeded net prof...

It is the first time Switzerland’s top criminal court will rule on a company’s liability for the alleged bribing of a foreign official and a rare instance of a former top executive of a trading firm going in the dock.

Swiss corruption case involving Trafigura and former executive opens

TRAFIGURA and three other defendants including a former board member go on trial over the alleged payment of bribes to an Angolan oil official for oil deals in a landmark case that opens on Monday.

The trading house heads to court on Dec 2 facing charges that its former parent company Trafigura Beheer BV failed to prevent unlawful payments over the 2009 to 2011 period, alongside former senior executive Mike Wainwright, a Swiss middleman who can only be named as P., and a senior Angolan public official Paulo Gouveia Junior. 

Trafigura paid bribes via ‘Mr Non-Compliant’: Swiss prosecutors

TRAFIGURA was accused by Swiss prosecutors of channeling bribes to an Angolan official through a network of former employees, including one nicknamed “Mr. Non-Compliant” by the company’s late founder.

A restored section of the Brujula Verde project in Colombia.

Temasek-backed GenZero and Trafigura to invest US$100 million in Colombian carbon project

Investment will double the size of the project, which aims to generate carbon credits by restoring land degraded by cattle grazing, farming and forest fires

The debacle is shining another harsh light on Trafigura’s internal controls, and raises questions about why it took almost a year to fully disclose the situation.

How one of the tiniest oil markets cost Singapore-based Trafigura over US$1 billion

Trafigura Group is a giant of commodity trading. On any given day, it handles enough oil to supply the entire needs of France three times over. Its global reach stretches from US crude oil export infr...