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Stakeholders

Stakeholder Pathways

CRT's success depends on meaningful engagement from a range of stakeholders beyond individual traders. This section describes how banks, chambers of commerce, insurers, legal professionals, academic institutions, governments and potential partners can engage with and contribute to the initiative.

Engagement invited Updated June 2026

Why stakeholders matter

CRT is not building a closed professional club. The value of professional standards in commodity trade depends on whether the broader ecosystem — the banks that finance trades, the insurers that cover risk, the chambers that facilitate business, the legal experts that advise practitioners, the governments that regulate markets — recognises and responds to those standards.

Each stakeholder group has a distinct interest in how commodity trading is professionalised. This section explains what CRT is proposing to offer each group, and how they can engage with the initiative at this founding stage.

Stakeholder groups

Partnership