Post AGM Q&A Session29 Jun 2022 21:21
Listened in to the session this afternoon. Understandably the content was mostly generalised as they cannot say anything specifically material to the market that is not already released via RNS. They advised that details will come in the June operational update and upcoming end of Q2 interims.
There were a couple of snippets of info that I found interesting:-
1) They mentioned recently hiring someone from the financial markets (derivatives background). It’s a wee bit after the horse has bolted but Argo seems to be learning a lesson and recognising that going forwards they need to get smarter on the financial side of understanding the markets, trading, etc to optimise their financial strategies and this recent recruitment should help support them in this undertaking.
2) They vaguely mentioned about “hedging” and said that they would be saying more about this in upcoming news releases. This aspect sounds an interesting and intriguing development, as in the commodities sector you often get miners entering into hedging agreements for a period of time that protects them from downside price risk (albeit also limiting the upside reward). Will be interesting to see what a crypto version of hedging turns out to look like and who are the customers…..