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% Rate Hedging & Risk Management

Background

Most businesses are exposed to interest rate risks from their operating cash flows, their financing and their investments. Businesses with variable interest rate investments face the possibility of…

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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

EMIR timeline updated

by Kylene Casanova

Gaia Transparence, a software vendor specialized in financial markets using an open source platform, have update their EMIR timeline chart. They note that the notification of clearing obligations

Risk Management

Five ways to protect your company from miss-sold swaps

by Kylene Casanova

Gurpreet Banwait's - Director, Solutions, Product Management, FINCAD - excellent article in the AFP's Risk Newsheet recommends instead of playing the blame game when swap positions go sour,

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

FX Management & Crypto

EU derivatives rules will come into effect in mid-March

by Kylene Casanova

The European Parliament, meeting in Strasbourg, France, has decided not to pursue a resolution which, if passed, would have forced yet more delays in the EU's long-awaited post-crash centralised derivatives clearing