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Our risks and responsibilities
The successful management of a broad definition of risk from
counter party to credit to political to product defines the success
of our business. We constantly strive to reduce the nature and
level of all the risks we face.
Offsetting risk is central to what Trafigura does; and we
consider our continued investment in market-leading risk management
systems as vital to preserving our competitive advantage.
Trafigura has invested substantially in a bespoke, IT-based
system, which integrates information from all our activities and
provides a real-time, transparent tool to monitor and adjust
operations according to the environment.
Information services are key to Trafigura’s success, and the
Group has well-defined IT security, business continuity and
disaster recovery plans in place.
A culture of risk awareness runs through all of Trafigura’s
business activities, with traders operating within clearly defined
risk parameters.
A full risk review is undertaken for all new clients,
counterparty credit limits are monitored throughout, and
independent risk specialists evaluate and report trading
exposures.
For Trafigura, strict risk management is not a restriction but a
business opportunity.