{"id":14608,"date":"2026-08-31T08:07:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T06:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lcta.ch\/?p=14608"},"modified":"2026-08-31T16:58:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T14:58:40","slug":"commodity-trading-and-luganos-competitiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lcta.ch\/en\/commodity-trading-and-luganos-competitiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"Commodity Trading and Lugano\u2019s Competitiveness (CdT)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"965\" height=\"671\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lcta.ch\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/materie-prime.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14605\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The commodity trading sector is an important part of the economy of Lugano and Ticino, contributing to highly skilled employment, specialized expertise, and tax revenues.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an interview with <em>Corriere del Ticino<\/em>, LCTA President <strong>Matteo Somaini<\/strong> discusses the sector\u2019s contribution to Lugano\u2019s competitiveness as a business hub and highlights several factors that are key to maintaining its attractiveness over time: <strong>a stable and predictable business environment, access to skilled professionals and talent, education and training, and a strong financial and professional services ecosystem<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These conditions are particularly important for companies operating in increasingly complex and volatile global markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Read the full interview (in Italian):<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdt.ch\/news\/ticino\/siamo-un-toccasana-si-e-ne-siamo-orgogliosi-437900\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00abSiamo un toccasana? S\u00ec, e ne siamo orgogliosi\u00bb<\/a> (Cdt.ch, 31.08.2026)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The commodity trading sector is an important part of the economy of Lugano and Ticino, contributing to highly skilled employment, specialized expertise, and tax revenues. In an interview with Corriere del Ticino, LCTA President Matteo Somaini discusses the sector\u2019s contribution to Lugano\u2019s competitiveness as a business hub and highlights several factors that are key to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":14605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-review","category-hightlights"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-08 08:48:56","action":"category","newStatus":"draft","terms":[49],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lcta.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lcta.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lcta.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lcta.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lcta.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14608"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lcta.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14617,"href":"https:\/\/www.lcta.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14608\/revisions\/14617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lcta.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lcta.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lcta.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lcta.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}