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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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
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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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FINCAD today launched of their new F3 3.0 release, which includes enhancements such as market correlation calibration for hybrid modelling and dual-curve stripping capabilities consistent with the cross-currency mar
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Already a leading escrow provider in the United States and Europe, JP Morgan treasury services have launched new escrow services in South Africa to help clients mitigate counterparty risk.
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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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1. Talk to them All the time, not just once a quarter. You'll get a excellent feel for what is going on. Build good relationships and trust. Suppliers remember companies which have been good to them.
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FiREapps have developed a three-step approach for managing FX exposure:
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The perfect tool for the imperfect world of hedging
