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Risk Management

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Risk is the potential that a chosen action, including the choice of inaction, will lead to a loss or an undesirable outcome. Any business carries some risk, but some are much more risky than others.…

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Risk Management

The future(s) of swaps

by CTMfile

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 CTMfile

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 CTMfile

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

Risk Management

Some commonsense on the use of Cashflow at Risk models

by CTMfile

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:

Risk Management

Top four emerging trends in Financial Risk Management

by CTMfile

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

FX Management & Crypto

FX volatility & setting budgets

by CTMfile

FX volatility is often omitted from financial planning, usually because the owner of the budget 'drafts' the FX assumptions with little research or uses the banks' consensus view of the FX market.

FX Management & Crypto

Key takeaways on capturing and managing FX exposure

by CTMfile

In their presentation on FX exposure management, Rob Waddell and Mark Stegman from Brown-Forman, the 'producer and marketer of fine quality beverage alcohol brands', they listed the key takeaways from their experi