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September 2015 6 Min Read

Asia’s FX Landscape – Managing Complexity

Asia’s FX Landscape – Managing Complexity An end-to-end approach for FX payments and risk management by Sunil Bhatia, Head of Clearing and FX Products Asia Pacific, Global Transaction Services, Bank of America Merrill Lynch Change is in the air. Across...

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July 2015 11 Min Read

Five Steps to Managing FX Risk

Five Steps to Managing FX Risk by Helen Sanders, Editor There are some aspects of today’s treasury function that have really only emerged over the past decade: financial supply chain management, enterprise risk management etc. Some responsibilities have been core...

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July 2015 7 Min Read

Tackling the Challenge of Embedded Derivatives

Tackling the Challenge of Embedded Derivatives by Danne Buchanan, Executive Vice President, Head of North America Operations, D+H For multinational corporations selling in multiple currencies, the recent strengthening of the US dollar has turned embedded derivatives...

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June 2015 2 Min Read

What Can FX Risk Management Models Achieve?

What Can FX Risk Management Models Achieve? by Martin Winkler, Managing Partner, Schwabe, Ley & Greiner  The cancellation of the – supposedly – guaranteed CHF/EUR minimum exchange rate by the Swiss National Bank (SNB) has once again made clear what...

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May 2015 2 Min Read

Value Creation and Beyond: FX Risk Management at Royal Philips N.V.

Value Creation and Beyond: FX Risk Management at Royal Philips N.V. An Interview with Gabriel van de Luitgaarden, SVP, Head of Financial Risk and Pensions Management, Royal Philips N.V. To what extent had your FX risk management requirements changed since you set up...

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March 2015 8 Min Read

An Award-Winning Project to Optimise Currency Risk Management

An Award-Winning Project to Optimise Currency Risk Management by Srikanth Dasari, Head of Treasury Front Office, Dow Corning Corporation  The winner of the TMI Corporate Recognition Award for Risk Management, 2014, was Dow Corning Corporation, in recognition of...

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March 2015 5 Min Read

Taking a Holistic View of Trade Risks

Taking a holistic view of trade risks by Kasper Krebs Jensen, Global Trade Finance Advisor, Nordea Companies do not always appreciate the bigger picture when it comes to the risks involved in international deals — or the trade finance products that can be...

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October 2014 7 Min Read

Broad Corporate Strategy Required to Manage Emerging Market Risk

Broad Corporate Strategy Required to Manage Emerging Market Risk Treasury, liquidity and volatility in Africa by Chris Paizis, Head of Corporate and Rest of Africa Distribution, Barclays Africa  Many of the risks that company treasurers encounter in Africa require...

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October 2014 7 Min Read

What’s All The Fuss About CVA?

What’s all the fuss about CVA? by Kevin Hoff, Senior Manager, KPMG Inc. Over the past two to three years, an increasing focus has been placed on incorporating credit risk in the fair value of financial instruments. The emphasis can be traced to the global...

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October 2014 9 Min Read

Today’s Risk Management Challenges for Corporate Treasury

What comprises best practice risk management in today’s corporate treasury? And how are the industry and its suppliers rising to new challenges for policy, process and technology?  This article analyses a range of risk classes that are generally managed in today’s...

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October 2014 6 Min Read

Volatility – Ubiquitous, Yet Evasive?

Volatility – Ubiquitous, Yet Evasive? by Eben Maré, Portfolio Manager, Stanlib In this article we discuss aspects of asset class volatility. We look specifically at the VIX index and some of its properties – VIX has become very popular in the media...

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September 2014 6 Min Read

Innovative Approaches to FX Risk Management

Innovative Approaches to FX Risk Management by Ignacio Sanchez, Treasury & Risk Manager, HMY Group As a mid-cap company operating globally, HMY Group faced the liquidity and risk challenges typically more familiar to large multinationals, but without the same scale...

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