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Financial Risk Management

Background

Financial risk is made of three basic types: market risk - FX risk, interest risk and commodity risk; counter-party risk - credit and partner risk; and liquidity risk - risk that the company will not…

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Risk Management

Enterprise Risk Management: practitioner perspectives

by Kylene Casanova

Companies increasingly are taking an integrated view of risk, across risk types and functions, and linking their enterprise risk management (ERM) programs to strategic planning. Those are the

Risk Management

Mitigating counterparty risk in derivatives trades

by Kylene Casanova

Recently, a large U.S. company executed a sizable portfolio of cross-currency derivatives to hedge its international exposure. As it evaluated prospective swaps trading partners, the company—let's call it XYZ Corp.—

Risk Management

Should Treasury lead Enterprise Risk Management?

by Kylene Casanova

An AFP CTC Corporate Treasurers Forum in New York, early in May discussed whether treasurers should lead the enterprise risk management function instead of the internal audit group.

Risk Management

The future(s) of swaps

by Kylene Casanova

Dwight Cass writing in International Treasurer poses the question, ' Will corporates make the move to exchanged-traded swaps?'. He believes that corporate exemption from interest-rate swap

Risk Management

Swap users in US get more time to report trades

by Kylene Casanova

Companies won delays in Dodd-Frank Act requirements to report derivatives trades they use to hedge business risks. The so-called end users, who trade as clients of banks, need the delay to test

Risk Management

Some commonsense on the use of Cashflow at Risk models

by Kylene Casanova

John Grout at the UK's Association of Corporate Treasurers gave some important perspectives on non financial corporates using Cashflow at Risk in his piece on the ACT web-site:

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Top four emerging trends in Financial Risk Management

by Kylene Casanova

The November 2012 article in Treasury & Risk highlighted the increasing focus on risk by boards and the expectations that corporate treasury department have a major role to play. Indeed they suggest that the most pr