Finance

Deutsche Bank and the fine art of self-exoneration

On January 19, Deutsche Bank (DB) issued “Questions and Answers on investments in agricultural commodities”.  The DB stated that after an internal examination, it was resuming investments in agricultural derivatives contracts that it had suspended since March 2011.

At the intersection of the fiscal cliff, health and the Farm Bill

 

The Common Denominator

IATP President Jim Harkness presented the following address to the attendees of the 11th Hour Project's grantee gathering on October 11, 2012. See a video of his remarks below. Good morning.

Climate finance debated while climate change rages

One of the many fierce debates at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties (CoP), which opened this year on November 26 in Doha, Qatar is about climate finance.

Money, politics and food

It didn’t make headlines, but Tuesday was the start of an important movement to reform our food and agriculture system by restoring our democracy.

An open letter to G-20 finance ministers: The world needs leadership on finance reform

George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Government of the United Kingdom Michel Barnier, Commissioner for Internal Market and Services, European Commission Ikko Nataksuka, Minister of State for Financial Services, Government of Japan

U.S. judge thwarts commodity market reform

Last week a U.S. federal judge struck down a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) rule designed to prevent excessive speculation in agricultural and non-agricultural commodities by Wall Street and its biggest corporate clients.

Ag swaps: A tiny boat on the vast financial data sea

Agricultural prices, both national and international, are affected by commodity and financial market rules. Export revenues and import costs depend on the value of the dollar, the dominant international currency for commodity trading, relative to the value of other currencies.

Freezing regulation while the climate heats up

One of the many ironies of the U.S. Farm Bill debate over crop insurance and revenue “assurance” programs was a tacit bipartisan agreement not to say in public four words that summarized major drivers in creating the proposed programs. The U.S.

Overturning Citizens United

From tractors, chemicals and seeds, to farmers and food workers, supermarkets and consumers, there's not a part of food and agriculture that big, often multinational, corporations don't dominate.