Javier Blas, Columnist

Commodity Traders Can’t Go 'Unregulated' Anymore

A new era of regulation is coming for the “opaque” and “unregulated” commodity-trading industry. 

Opaque?

Source: Bloomberg

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For the first time in many years, the commodity-trading industry has caught the eye of policy makers and regulators. They’re not pleased.

In a series of recent reports, letters and confidential memos from major central banks and global financial regulators, a couple of words creep out: “opaque” and “unregulated.”