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- We manage physical trading from the point of production.
- We leverage valuable strategic relationships that add efficiencies to client transactions —through an established presence in logistics and marketing.
- Our roots stem from the successes of Sempra Energy Trading— and the equity support of Stone Point Capital.
- We are agile. Committed. We have “boots on the ground.”
- We provide creative, scalable financing solutions for our clients.
- We are Freepoint Commodities.
- And we believe market ingenuity and experience always wins the day.
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Freepoint hires London coal head
Freepoint Commodities has hired Alex Claude as head of coal in London.
Claude joined from Vattenfall Energy Trading, where he was head of coal and freight trading.
Before joining Vattenfall in 2006, he was a grains and oilseeds trader and a biofuel strategist at Louis Dreyfus for several years.
Freepoint, a merchant trading firm formed last year by the founders of Sempra Energy Trading, launched a London-based European commodities business last October.
The unit’s European power, gas, coal and emissions desks are led by Michael Walter.
Other recent hires include Daniel Mulder, a carbon trader; Friederike Brandt, head of European operations; Renata Frankova, director and head of central and eastern European power trading; Thomas Nilsson, head of Nordic power trading; and Monika Halasa, responsible for short-term power trading and scheduling.