StanChart executes first ESG-linked derivative with Trafigura; Freepoint Commodities renews RCF at $2.63bn; Scrapping paper documents 'could boost UK trade by £25bn'

In today's daily round-up of export, trade and commodity finance news, TXF's Max Thompson covers the latest stories and trends across the market:

• US-based Freepoint Commodities has closed a $2.63 billion revolving bank facility

• Standard Chartered has priced its first commodity hedge linked to Environmental, Social and Governance benchmarks with trader Trafigura

• Digitising business and removing tens of millions of paper documents would boost small British businesses’ overseas trade by £25 billion over the next four years, according to new research by the International Chamber of Commerce 

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