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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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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Thomson Reuters, a leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today announced further strategic enhancements to its Accelus Disclosure Solutions PROFILE
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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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In September 2012 Citi's chief economist put the likelihood of Greece leaving the euro within 18 months at 90%. These concerns on Greece and the Euro zone have lessened, but they have not gone away.
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AFP's annual risk survey of 327 senior finance and treasury professionalsin November 2012 found that developing a sustainable competitive advantage in an increasingly uncertain environment is the
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Many organizations define risk as something to avoid. Playing the safest game possible has its merits, but a healthy, detailed definition of your organization's appetite for risk is critical to success in business.
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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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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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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
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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.
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John Bird, Atlas Risk Advisory LLC, in his white paper, describes how many companies hedge each exposure to a preset hedge coverage ratio according to policy. Nevertheless, in practice they will
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The IASB's alternative solution applies a fix to the way the IFRS 9 amendments, issued last September, treated the element of currency basis in forward FX pricing, which would have left companies exposed to signific
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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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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
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After a successful test programme over the last few months with a select group of shared clients, FiREapps is announcing a brand new strategic partnership with HedgeTrackers, LLC. This new partnership will leverage
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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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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has today published its technical standards on the Regulation on OTC derivatives, central counterparties and trade repositories (EMIR), which set out the specific
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RavenPack, a leading provider of real-time financial news analysis services, has launched a new version of its News Analytics product which, in addition to nearly doubling the number of corporate events tracked, now
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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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Reval in London, the global provider of a Software-as-a-Service solutions for Treasury and Risk Management, announced it is establishing a local presence in Amsterdam to support major organizations and international
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Previously, even with a single instance of SAP, the independent operation of each manufacturing facility made it difficult for Jabil's Financial Risk Management Treasury team to identify accurately and effectively
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Thomson Reuters has added tropical weather insight and analytics to its flagship information desktop, Thomson Reuters Eikon, to help financial markets professionals better understand the influence weather may have u
