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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"Corporate treasurers have long used derivatives hedging to bring stability and predictability to their financial position. Now the safety net is riddled with holes, thanks to uncertainty about global
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For organisations performing half-year reporting starting from 30th June, the new IFRS13 Standard will require fair value measurement of assets and liabilities to include Credit and Debit Value Adjustments (CVA / DV
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The new Portfolio Risk solution from S&P Capital IQ is an advanced risk and scenario analytics tool that provides traders, portfolio and risk managers with the ability to take decisions about the pricing, hedging an
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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.—
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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
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In Chatham House's survey of more than 150 companies, 60 percent of respondents who face regulatory requirements from Dodd-Frank indicated that they are not yet prepared for compliance, with
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Euroclear and the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) have announced the launch of a joint collateral processing service, which aims to automate elements of margin call workflows for derivatives trades.
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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,
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A template for interest rate swaps with standardised coupons and maturities has been released by the ISDA, in a move that has been widely interpreted as an attempt by the over-the-counter
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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
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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
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On 15th March, the technical standards supplementing the European Markets Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) entered into force and affect most corporate treasury departments. According to the
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The traditional world of derivatives, consisting of both listed and over-the-counter (OTC) instruments, is undergoing significant change. Clearing of OTC derivatives through central counterparties has grown rapidly
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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
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The Depository Trust Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and SWIFT announced today that their global legal entity identifier (LEI) solution had progressed at a robust pace since its August, 2012 launch with more than 47,000
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FINCAD, a provider of OTC derivatives solutions, have announced the latest release of its cross-asset derivatives analytics library, FINCAD Analytics Suite 2013. This new version includes market consistent FX option
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Chatham Financial, an independent financial risk management advisory and technology solutions firm, today unveiled ChathamDirect for FX risk management. This cloud-based portfolio of applications gives corporations
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Pricing Partners' new version of its pricing engine Price-it® Excel enables derivatives pricing with one click to obtain both price and Greeks.
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San Francisco: Institutional Cash Distributors (ICD) today announced the release of Transparency Plus 3.0 (T+ 3.0), its latest exposure analytics application with new institutional investment features and risk manag
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Hedge Accounting Insight, FINCAD's web-based hedge accounting solution, now offers increased coverage and enhanced cash flow and liquidity managements.
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Turaz, the new company set up by Vista Equity Partners when they bought the Thomson Reuters Trade and Risk Management business in September 2011, today announced
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