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Worldwide Commodity Partners

Defunct financial services company

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ39087237 ↗
Source-derived summary

Worldwide Commodity Partners Limited was a company that sold carbon credits, for which there is no functioning secondary market, at inflated prices and which was wound-up by British regulatory authorities in 2014 in the public interest following an investigation by the Insolvency Service. It was one of a web of 13 companies that also included Eco-Synergies Limited that were shut down at the same time.

Worldwide Commodity Partners had been named "Fastest Growing Broker, Western Europe, 2012" in the World Finance Awards.

See also

Tullett Brown

References

External links

"Worldwide Commodities - Award Winning Brokerage Consultants". 8 July 2012. Archived from the original on 8 July 2012. Retrieved 24 August 2017.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Worldwide Commodity Partners” as defunct financial services company. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014, 2012, 2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Worldwide, Commodity and Partners can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as defunct financial services company. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q39087237. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2014, 2012 and 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “Worldwide Commodity Partners” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.