Freepoint At-A-Glance
In short: in it for your long-term trust.
- 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.
The Freepoint Advantage
Our expertise is in being able to use our intellectual capital toward structured, scalable financing and debt solutions that leverage our global presence in physical markets. We pride ourselves on the agility to make fast decisions — but build long-term relationships.
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Freepoint hires for merchant finance group
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Freepoint hires for merchant finance group
Freepoint Commodities has hired Vaughan Wickins, an executive in the metals & mining group at Standard Bank in London.
Wickens recently joined Freepoint to run its structured finance effort in the metals & mining sector in London, SparkSpread has learned.
His experience includes structuring and originating financing transactions with mining companies across the capital structure, from equity to secured debt, and he will be responsible for building out that business at Freepoint.
Wickens reports jointly to Philip Bacon, global head of metals trading; and Brian Cumming, global head of structured finance, both in Stamford, Conn.
Prior to his most recent role, Wickens headed Standard Bank’s mining finance team in London.