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Collateral has been used for hundreds of years to provide security against the possibility of payment default by the opposing party in a trade.

Collateral management began in the 1980s, with Bankers Trust and Salomon Brothers taking collateral against credit exposure.

There were no legal standards, and most calculations were performed manually on spreadsheets.

Collateralisation of derivatives exposures became widespread in the early 1990s.

Standardisation began in 1994 via the first ISDA documentation.

A soft commodity, or softs, are commodities such as coffee, cocoa, sugar, corn, wheat, soybean, fruit and livestock.

The term generally refers to commodities that are grown, rather than mined; the latter (such as oil, copper and gold) are known as hard commodities.

A stevedore, dockworker, docker, dock laborer, wharfie, wharf rat, lumper, whombler, and/or longshoreman is a waterfront manual laborer who is involved in loading and unloading ships.

A commodity market is a market that trades in primary economic sector rather than manufactured products.

Soft commodities are agricultural products such as wheat, coffee, cocoa and sugar.

Hard commodities are mined, such as gold and oil.

Investors access about 50 major commodity markets worldwide with purely financial transactions increasingly outnumbering physical trades in which goods are delivered.

Futures contracts are the oldest way of investing in commodities.

Futures are secured by physical assets.

Commodity markets can include physical trading and derivatives trading using spot prices, forwards, futures, and options on futures.

Farmers have used a simple form of derivative trading in the commodity market for centuries for price risk management.

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an international standard-setting body composed of representatives from various national standards organizations.