A British court ruled that the juice maker must repay money borrowed from Cargill, but the agribusiness giant has yet to collect, despite court efforts in four countries.
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An interesting article from my colleague John Bell on the use of the suspension of contractual obligations and the exclusion for regulatory authorities under the South African Companies Act.
The South African High Court's decision in Tongaat Hulett v South African Sugar Association provides an interesting look at the moratorium and suspension of contractual obligations under the South African Companies Act 2008. Among other things, the case considers the moratorium carve out for regulatory authorities, which prevented Tongaat Hulett's business rescue practitioners from being able to rely on it to justify non payment to the Sugar Association: https://lnkd.in/en9bUD7v
Suspension of contractual obligations and the moratorium in South African business rescue
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ASIC has launched civil penalty proceedings in the Federal Court against COFCO International Australia Pty Ltd and COFCO Resources SA alleging the companies manipulated the ASX24 market for Eastern Australia Wheat futures January 2023 (WMF3) contracts. ASIC alleges COFCO manipulated contracts on 34 occasions between 17 January 2022 and 3 March 2022, placing orders shortly before the close of the day session of the ASX24 for the improper purpose of affecting the daily settlement price for the WMF3 contract. This conduct is commonly referred to as ‘marking the close’. ASIC Chair Joe Longo said, ‘ASIC is committed to responding to market manipulation in energy and commodities markets. This conduct is illegal; it erodes trust and confidence in our markets, increases costs for participants, hurts farmers, food manufacturers, importers and exporters, and impacts the prices Australians pay at the checkout.' Read more https://lnkd.in/gZt3Ptt7
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Cygne must pay Chinese state-owned agribusiness group COFCO US $125 M in damages for fraud in connection with COFCO's acquisition of Nidera, an agricultural commodities trader. Before the deal closed, Nidera found a US$150 million hole in the accounts of its Brazilian subsidiary. COFCO accused Cygne of concealing this accounting issue and thereby defrauding it when entering into the deal. Cygne tried to annul the award, arguing that the tribunal went beyond its mandate by inventing a hypothetical scenario based on the assumption that a lower price would have been achieved without the fraud. But the court said the scenario was based on facts stated by the parties, and upheld the quantum award. #Arbitration #internationalarbitration #Agribusiness
Chinese agribusiness group's award upheld in fraud dispute
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Brief facts: 2 appeals were filed against order admitting CIRP in respect of ‘Simbhaoli Sugar Ltd. (CD) Appellant who claims to be farmer who has been supplying sugarcane to the CD and the other Appellant is Promoter of the CD. Detailed intervention application by 42 farmers have been filed giving details of operation of the CD and opposing the initiation of CIRP. An OTS proposal had been received which was under active consideration of the Banks. Points of the Appellant OTS proposal with all the Banks is under consideration which is not finalized and seeing the nature of operation to the CD, CIRP is bound to cause disruption of large number of farmers who have been supplying cane to ‘Simbhaoli Sugar Ltd.’ Counter point by OBC(FC) Several opportunities were given for settlement and for last 6 years, no settlement has fructified. Debt and default having been proved which is not under dispute and that the mere fact that settlement proposal is pending cannot be a ground to refuse admission of Section 7 application. Counsel for the Appellant further informed that the order passed in Section 7 application, other two applications have already been disposed of in view of the order. Hon AA has not given opportunity to bring the settlement between the parties on record. Order: There is finding that debt and default is there but looking into the nature of the operation which corporate debtor is doing where it is submitted that the production capacity is 20,000 metric tonnes per day.Disruption will not benfit either party. 85% amount which is received are to be operated by the District Magistrate for payment of dues to the farmers and only 15% for operation charges. The ends of justice be served in giving opportunity to the financial creditors to take a decision with regard to proposal which was received and which is under active consideration as noticed by the AA. Appellant can file an additional affidivit to bring facts and developments on record. #CIRP #IBC #LEGAL UPDATES #CORPORATE LAW avmresolution.com
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The second and final International Monetary Fund (IMF) review report highlights risks of tax revenue shortfalls in April and May 2024 due to holiday-related port closures, impacting revenue collection. The government has agreed on contingency revenue measures with the IMF to address any shortfall. Efforts are underway to meet the revenue administration goals outlined in the SBA, including additional measures to collect revenue from retailers. Challenges persist in the tobacco sector despite the implementation of track-and-trace systems to combat smuggling and clandestine production. The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) is expanding its track-and-trace system to cover additional commodities like sugar, fertilizer, and cement. While 1.1 million new filers have been registered, enforcement measures have been necessary to obtain returns from a significant portion of them.
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In painstaking research, they place slavery at the heart, not only of early industrialisation, but the growth of services such as banking and insurance. By the last decades of the 18th century, they demonstrate that the West Indies was co-equal with Europe as Britain’s biggest trading partner. Cotton’s importance was preceded by slave-grown sugar, which became a national staple. All this spawned a vast boom in British shipping, from 1m tons and 50,000 seamen in the 1780s to 2.5m tons and 130,000 seamen in the 1830s, with the growth propelled by the Atlantic plantation trade. The ships and their cargoes, whether of enslaved people, sugar or cotton, needed insuring, generating a large marine insurance industry. Sugar refineries were prone to burning down easily – there were over 100 in London alone in the 1780s – causing the need for specialist fire insurance companies. No account of the boom in the textile industry either side of the Pennines or the City of London is complete without empire and the slave trade, which even after abolition in 1833 would continue as trade in indentured labour. The trade needed protecting and policing. A strong navy was an imperative – the West Indies became the second most important theatre for the navy outside British home waters, and where the custom of giving sailors a daily tot of West Indian rum originated. A 74-gun ship of the line from 1805 might cost the equivalent of 16 cotton mills, but the money was easily found from burgeoning tariffs. The navy was also a richly profitable and important market for British farmers and gun makers. No one argues that slavery caused the Industrial Revolution, least of all Berg and Hudson. But to minimise and abstract, as Niemietz attempts, the economic impact of first the sugar and then cotton slave plantations, and also the industries that radiated from them, as not part of the story is plainly inadmissible. It is also true that liberal institutions, such as judicial independence and rule of law, helped early capitalism and was additionally fostered by the creation of a unified internal market." Just a sample to counteract some of the nonsense from the minister for equalities this past week.
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Insurance and risk specialist, fiercely advocating for clients in #mining #coal #construction #resources and #energy
In other news, another proper clanger from the Australian Government got silently allowed to pass through to the keeper last Thursday. A Joint Committee on #Trade and #Investment Growth was appointed by the House of Representatives and passed by the Senate of the 45th Parliament (to which our current government was clearly a part) and resolved to inquire into and report on the prudential regulation of investment in Australia’s export industries - #resources and #agriculture foremost among these. The committee completed its inquiry within 9 months and tabled its report to the government in December 2021 with 13 critical recommendations designed to enhance prudential regulation, analyse why support of our export industries from financial institutions (including insurers) had been constrained or curtailed entirely, and seek government support to call out where these institutions had been unduly influenced to, or happily stepped out of, their prudential lanes to adversely impact our export industries. The Australian Labor Party's response to each of the recommendations? "The Government notes this recommendation. However, given the passage of time since this report was tabled, a substantive Government response is no longer appropriate." Read the recommendations yourself below, but a couple of choice examples of their complete apathy to our resources/agriculture sectors include - Recommendation 2 - The Committee recommends that the Australian Government recognise that finance, banking and insurance services are essential services for businesses. Recommendation 3 - The Committee recommends that the Australian Government take steps to ensure that banks must, at a minimum, provide transactional banking services to all law-abiding businesses. (i.e., coal mining companies) Recommendation 7 - The Committee recommends that the Department of the Treasury conduct a review into extent of the influence of activist pressure on the decisions of financial institutions in relation to the resources industry, and if necessary develop options to address this issue. The Government feels a response to these is no longer appropriate because it has sat on, and dawdled over it's pathetic response. Industry, are these recommendations no longer relevant as the government suggests? Your considered response would be most welcome as my view is that the ramifications around this are more layered than an onion, folks. Minerals Council of Australia NSW Minerals Council Queensland Resources Council Bowen Basin Mining Club CRE Insurance Broking
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Last week I had the pleasure of taking part in Fair Finance International’s event on the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive in the context of the mining company Glencore in Peru and Colombia 🌿 Nowadays there are still too few (inter)national laws that prevent corporates’ complicity in human rights abuses and environmental destruction. It is crucial to stress the responsibility EU #financialinstitutions have regarding the allocation of investments and funding from banks towards exploitative companies. Therefore this public event by FFI aimed to draw attention to the ongoing EU negotiations on #CSDDD and the urge to include the financial sector in these regulations, advocating for higher human rights compliance and environmental protection. It particularly focused on the mining company Glencore’s human rights violations and environmental destruction in #Colombia and #Peru: such as displacing Indigenous communities, priving them of water, causing hundreds of thousands to have respiratory issues, threatening and murdering activists, and polluting ancestral territory’s waters and ecosystems. Almost 50 percent (41.2 billion) of financing for Glencore comes from European banks, enabling the company to destroy life in Latin America with impunity. Considering that the #EU is aiming to push for phasing out fossil fuels and ensuring climate finance to address loss and damage at the #COP28, and about to finish the CSDDD negotiations, it is essential that EU laws include its financial institutions’ impacts beyond European borders and hold them accountable 🌎 The invited speakers included American Indigenous affected people, various local research and activism groups, an EU Parliament Member, Oxfam Novib’s Director of Programs, and advisors on human rights and socially responsible investment. I'm grateful to have been part of such a fantastic team, by assisting in the preparation, promotion, and support of this event, as an Intern at Oxfam Novib these past three months. This experience and getting to know the speakers throughout the previous weeks has sharpened my insights into the need for all-encompassing and global CSDDD, and strengthened my passion for #climatejustice and #humanrights advocacy. Besides mitigation and adaption, climate justice and financial regulations must include #reparation to fully address the unequal impacts of the climate crisis and ensure fairness in the global response ⚖
🙏 Thank you to all our panelists and attendees who attended last week’s Fair Finance International event for their lively discussion and debate. Top takeaways are: ⛏ The actions of Glencore in Espinar in #Peru and La Guajira in #Colombia more than illustrate the need to ensure corporations and those who fund them must be held responsible for the consequences of their actions on #peopleandplanet. 💰 Inclusion of the financial sector in the #CSDDD is the thorniest of topics at this stage in the negotiations, the European Parliament have included it, but the Council have taken it out. ✅ Many in the #financialsector support its inclusion – #duediligence is already embedded in much of what they do, e.g on money laundering and KYC (Know Your Customer), so meeting CSDDD requirements is not such an onerous task for the sector. ❗ December 13th will be the next negotiation date between the Council, Commission and Parliament – we must keep pushing for inclusion of the financial sector #JusticeNotProfit #YesEUCan #HoldBizAccoutantable #sustainablefinance, #responsibleinvesting #supplychains René Repasi Frank Wagemans Nelleke Hoffs Pepijn Gerrits Silvia Ellena Oxfam Novib Oxfam EU office Oxfam CIDSE European Coalition for Corporate Justice Socialists and Democrats Group in the European Parliament #JusticeisEverybodysBusiness
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THE HIGH COST OF REGULATIONS The regulatory compliance costs of Ukrainian credit unions account for 30% of their total operating expenses and nearly 7% of their total assets. That's just one finding of a year-long study conducted by the USAID/World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU) Credit for Agriculture Producers (CAP) Project that asked Ukrainian credit unions to estimate their costs associated with regulatory compliance and prudential requirements. Learn more in the latest for our Ukrainian Crisis Response Blog. #regulations #regulatorycosts #compliance https://lnkd.in/gaZZUT6j
Regulatory Compliance Accounts for One-Third of Ukrainian Credit Unions’ Operating Expenses
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𝗥𝗘𝗚𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗟: Under existing law, the assessment must remain in effect for at least one full year and must also remain active until the board votes to suspend the collection of fees or the fund reaches a balance of $8 million. #HighPlainsJournal #HPJ #Iowa #GrainIndemnityFund
Iowa Grain Indemnity Fund assessment to continue - High Plains Journal
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