Value proposition
The platform allows securing prices, reducing market risk and ensuring earnings up to 3 years in advance in commercial (as opposed to derivative) markets, keeping price formation in the real economy.
It is a sustainable solution to not only manage but also reduce uncertainty and price volatility across the ferrous value chain.
Our multilateral ecosystem
- Simplifies forward pricing and lowers its cost;
- Eliminates speculative influence of financial markets;
- Makes forward markets directly accessible to companies big and small, without any regulatory burden;
- Allows users to choose from dozens of price indices for integrated and electric supply chains, across all regions, in all major currencies;
- Creates network effects for faster and better liquidity;
- Offers flexible post-trade processing based on user risk profiles;
- Enables optional conversion of financially settled contracts into supply agreements.
Most of these features have never existed before.
Outcomes
Financial
Earnings volatility Down
Cost of finance Down
Finance availability Up
Commercial
Supply chain costs Down
Performance risk Down
Customer service Up
Strategic
Investment risk Down
Cost of capital Down
Enterprise value Up
10 reasons to join
Simple
Universal
Safe
Accessible
Online marketplace exempted from financial regulation
Sustainable
Flexible
Efficient
Low basis risk at low cost
Practical
Robust
A decentralized ecosystem with network effects