Our Index Methodology

Fair. Impartial. Transparent.

SCR indices reflect real market value. Here’s how:

• Top & Tailed Mid of Mids: SCR prices are the product of a market-wide survey of coal price mid-values, excluding outliers.
• Confirm or Challenge: SCR interim prices are sent to a randomly selected but balanced group of producer/traders and consumers and checked each week before publication, quadrupling market scrutiny before publication. 
• FOB Purity: No vessel assumptions or sub-index gimmicks.
• No Platform Pricing: Excludes trades and EFPs (that are in any event reversible offline) from vested-interest venues
• No Conference Seats Exchanged for Pricing: SCR ignores journalist guesses at coal value and blackbox benchmarking from hearsay coal publications that are simply fronts to sell conferences. 
• No Producer Club: SCR benchmarks exclude – in their entirety – all pricing output from producer controlled or inspired entities such as Globalcoal and PT Coal Indo.
• No Fake Qualification: SCR benchmarks do not hide behind UK FCA or IOSCO logos, the very authorities who sanctioned producer controlled or inspired benchmarks in the first place.
• Inclusive & Secure: Open to all, beholden to none, free to all.

Our five Indonesian benchmark are free to the market and built to withstand scrutiny, unlike EVERY other coal benchmark.

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