Christine Dirringer, Author at Trade Finance Global

Christine recently joined Rabobank as the Global Head of Trade and Commodity Finance. Her focus, and that of her team, is providing trade and commodity finance solutions for commodity marketing companies around the world. Rabobank, one of the largest and best rated financial institutions in the world, is a leader in the Commodity Finance space.

Christine has twenty seven years of banking experience, twenty of which have been in the Commodity Finance domain. Prior to joining Rabobank, Christine spent fifteen years at BNP, initially as a Relationship Manager in BNP’s North American commodity finance platform, growing to lead a team and ultimately the Commodity Structured Debt product group. In 2020, the Asset Based Lending team was brought under Christine’s purview as well. Prior to BNP, Christine was a relationship manager at another leading commodity finance bank and, before entering the commodity finance world, her banking experience encompassed Leveraged Finance, Equity Capital Markets and Corporate Finance Advisory. Her pre-banking career included stints at the Delegation of the European Commission (Trade Division) and a Washington DC think tank.

Christine holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of California at Berkeley and is a CFA charterholder. She is based out of New York.