Is ERM impossible or can technology platforms help you take control?
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Enterprise Risk Management can be used to drive significant shareholder value if……
% 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…
Read moreEight risks ‘at tipping point’ that corporate treasurers have to tackle
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These risks are all an unknown quantity. So if we can't measure them, how can treasurers react and prepare? An 11-person panel at EuroFinance's International Treasury conference discussed how.
FASB issues proposed changes to hedge a/cing standards - corporate comments needed
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Exposure Draft contains proposals for improving how the economic results of an institution’s risk management activities are portrayed
Geneva report: why treasury needs to stay alert to impacts of negative rates
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The Geneva report, published this month, discusses the future of negative or near-zero interest rate policies. So what are some of the effects that corporate treasurers need to look out for?
Trading in OTC interest rate derivatives increased to $2.7 trillion per day in April 2016
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BIS survey: % rate swaps most actively traded, London looses lead in over the counter to USA
Biggest waste in corporate treasury: 30 years experience just walked out the door
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Japan puts its seniors to work, why don’t corporate treasury departments do too? New ways of thinking are needed…….
European Commission puts Euribor on list of ‘critically important’ benchmarks
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The EC has established a list of ‘critical’ indexes that are of particular importance for financial markets and consumer contracts.
Standardised FIX guidelines to improve post-trade processing
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The FIX Trading Community's new guidelines will improve post-trade processing for futures, equity swaps and FX equity options.
How can the global economy navigate these ‘unchartered waters’?
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The global economy is in “completely uncharted waters”, according to a leading voice in the financial regulation sector. Risks have changed since 2008 and a single event is now systemic.
Calls for financial calm but companies must prepare for Brexit fallout
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Statements from financial leaders seek to reassure financial markets that it's “business as usual” following Friday's shock exit vote. But views from banks and analysts tell a different story.
CloudMargin’s low cost collateral management solution expands and adds many users
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Collateral Management is growing in importance as regulators take steps to reduce risk in the derivatives markets
Cash flow forecasting needs Actively Open Minded Thinkers
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Tim Harford, Senior Columnist, Financial Times, explains how open minded thinking is essential in forecasting and why Keynes was a better forecaster than Irving Fischer: “When facts change, I change my opinion”
Brexit is a really bad idea: UK sovereign rating will be downgraded from AAA and …
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Moritz Kraemer, Global Rating Officer, Sovereign Ratings, Standard & Poor quietly and clearly explains why downgrading will be the first of many problems
FASB update: simplification of share-based payments and choice in hedging rule adoption
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The Financial Accounting Standard Board has issued a new standard to simplify accounting for share-based payments, and also voted to let companies choose how they implement hedge accounting changes.
FASB paves the way for hedge accounting alignment with corporate risk management
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The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is expected to propose changes that would address some of the differences between companies’ risk management strategies and the hedge accounting model.
Common approach for US-EU derivatives clearing counterparties
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The European Commission has now granted regulatory equivalence for the US central clearing counterparties, used in derivatives contracts, as those CCPs in the European Union.
Tips for doing enterprise risk management right
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A video produced by the Association for Financial Professionals asks Magnus Attoff, head of financial risk management at Ericsson, about his unique approach to ERM.
US and EC agree common rules for derivatives clearing
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The European Commission (EC) and the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have agreed on common rules for central clearing counterparties (CCPs).
The prognosis for our zero-rate economy?
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Are we facing a protracted period of 'secular stagnation' that no central bank can fix? How much longer can the zero-rate economy continue and how can we climb out of the 'liquidity trap'?
BIS on why emerging market firms finance in dollar
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The Bank for International Settlements has released its December issue of the BIS Quarterly Review, giving its perspective on credit to emerging markets denominated in US dollar.
European swap clearing to start in June 2016
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ESMA announces firms will have to centrally clear certain classes of interest rate swaps starting from 21 June 2016, to comply with EMIR
What would MiFID II delay mean for treasurers?
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ESMA has indicated MiFID II implementation could be postponed. What – if anything – does this mean for corporate treasury?
Central counterparty equivalence for five more countries
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The EC has announced that the central counterparty regulatory regimes for Canada, Switzerland, South Africa, Mexico and Korea are now “equivalent” to regulation of EU CCPs.
EC adopts EMIR rules on central clearing for interest rate derivatives
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The EC has adopted a regulation that makes it mandatory for certain OTC interest-rate derivative contracts to be cleared through central counterparties.