LME Week: Financing the Future in the Metals Industry

During LME Week, we brought together content from CRU, centered on the CRU Breakfast theme, Financing the Future: Impact and Opportunity in the Metals Industry.

You’ll find insights and on-demand video coverage of sessions and panels that unpack financing models, risk and return, decarbonisation investment and emerging opportunities across metal markets - practical analysis and clear takeaways for investors, producers and lenders. Throughout LME Week, our CRU Breakfast coverage spotlighted how evolving capital structures, risk management, and low‑carbon financing were shaping strategy and returns across the metals value chain.

CRU Breakfast Live Sessions

Part 1: Financing the Future of metals	Part 2: Financing metals supply chains

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Your essential cross-commodity brief

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Breakfast Supplement

Download the CRU Breakfast supplement for LME Week: combining agenda highlights, market outlooks and sector deep-dives.

Read focused insights on fourth-generation LFP batteries and their industry impact; a two-part series, on the CRU Breakfast theme; Financing the Future, exploring investment gaps, capital deployment and strategic pivots.

Plus commodity outlooks for Aluminium, Copper, Nickel, Zinc, Lead, Lithium, Cobalt and Gold; and a data-and AI feature on turning data foundations into competitive advantage; and practical updates on robotics.

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Takeaways from LME Week: Financing the Future

Following CRU's breakfast briefing which took place during LME Week, this focused debrief examines the critical gap between required investment levels and current financing reality across base metals markets. Our analysts will present CRU's 5-year commodity outlooks alongside the new realities reshaping capital deployment, from ESG complexities to policy interventions. Attendees will gain practical insights into how participants are adapting their growth strategies, particularly the strategic shift toward acquisitions over greenfield development in today's higher-risk environment.

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