Menu

Home
About
Customer Stories
Contact
Client Login

The Hedgebook collection

Insights, updates and learnings
Five things banks look for in a client FX management solution
04/08/23
Five things banks look for in a client FX management solution
Banks everywhere are on a digital transformation journey. They want to use technology to equally drive greater customer satisfaction and operational efficiencies. So what was top of mind in our discussion with global treasury teams?
Read more
Essential hedge effectiveness testing: methods and importance
21/06/23
Essential hedge effectiveness testing: methods and importance
Ensuring the changes in fair value of a hedge adequately offset the changes in fair value of the hedged item can be critical. Kevin Mitchell, MD of Hedge Effective Advisory, explores a range of hedge testing methods.
Read more
What Auditors Look For in Valuing Financial Instruments
05/05/23
What Auditors Look For in Valuing Financial Instruments
Hedgebook proudly works with 75% of the UK’s top thirty audit firms. Hedgebook Audit is also used by auditors around the world.  Customers discussions reveal five main reasons auditors use Hedgebook.
Read more
The Complete Guide to Calculating fx forward points
27/03/23
The Complete Guide to Calculating fx forward points
Every year thousands of readers like you benefit from this common-sense approach to the calculation of foreign exchange (FX) forward points. First published 10 years ago, we regularly review and update it.
Read more
Treasury Reflections – looking back over the last two years
21/12/22
Treasury Reflections – looking back over the last two years
In this guest blog, Head of Bancorp Treasury Services, Dean Sharrar, takes a timely look at his 'treasury reflections' examining what was a very different 2021 and 2022 to what anyone would have previously predicted. 
Read more
How is your FX exposure looking right now?
26/10/22
How is your FX exposure looking right now?
If your business is exposed to foreign exchange volatility it can be unsettling. Depending on which side of the exchange rate your business is exposed to, currency movements will be felt differently.
Read more
Inflation leads to rapid increase in interest rates
09/08/22
Inflation leads to rapid increase in interest rates
After more than a decade of declines in interest rates, leading to the historically low interest rate environment, the recent reversal has been rapid. But what does this mean for those of us managing FX risk?
Read more
Banks have real opportunity in FX hedging for SMEs
16/06/22
Banks have real opportunity in FX hedging for SMEs
There is ongoing discussion around the lack of digital innovation by banks in the SME lending space. This resonates with Hedgebook as it also relates to banks and how they manage foreign exchange hedging for SMEs.
Read more
5 reasons why FX Sales Teams need a Client Dashboard
02/03/22
5 reasons why FX Sales Teams need a Client Dashboard
FX sales teams work portfolios of customers managing multiple currency hedging instances across each one. This blog explores five ways in which a Client Dashboard can help surface opportunities - and a lot more.
Read more
How do you bridge the ‘touch’ gap for banks and FX customers?
09/12/21
How do you bridge the ‘touch’ gap for banks and FX customers?
Banks and large foreign exchange brokers have many FX customers to service, who all want to interact differently. Proactive or reactive? What is the answer? There is more to it than you might think!
Read more
Complex Financial Derivatives – Buyers and Sellers Beware
29/10/21
Complex Financial Derivatives – Buyers and Sellers Beware
Publicity surrounding Deutsche Bank’s potential mis-selling of complex financial derivative products to an unsuspecting Spanish company highlighted, again, the risks associated with hedging foreign exchange. 
Read more
Quantifying bank counterparty credit spread inputs for CVA
22/09/21
Quantifying bank counterparty credit spread inputs for CVA
Clients often ask what the appropriate credit spread would be when calculating CVA (Credit Value Adjustment) under the current exposure method - we outline our recommended approach for ANZ and the UK.
Read more
Forward exchange contracts: pre-deliveries and extensions
08/09/21
Forward exchange contracts: pre-deliveries and extensions
Many companies use Forward Exchange Contracts (FECs) to hedge forecasted future foreign currency exposures. There some complexity in doing this but we want to show you how Hedgebook makes this easy.
Read more
When to use zero-premium collar options as the method of hedging
30/08/21
When to use zero-premium collar options as the method of hedging
If it is not wise to always hedge via zero-premium collar options and you should never pay a premium to buy outright call and put currency options. So what is the right approach? And how should you apply it?
Read more
Hedge accounting FX options: time versus intrinsic value
23/08/21
Hedge accounting FX options: time versus intrinsic value
Learn how FX options lock in the certainty of worst case exchange rate outcomes while allowing participation in favourable rate movements. We explore a range of FX options including Zero Cost Collar and more.
Read more
3 Reasons: why use an interest rate swap and how it works
26/07/21
3 Reasons: why use an interest rate swap and how it works
A popular blog first released in 2015, largely to help explain what an Interest Rate Swap or IRS is. Funnily enough – the need to know is just as great today, if not greater - so we've taken the time to do an update.
Read more

Want to know the latest? Sign up to our newsletter.

Get irregular, sometimes irreverent, updates from the Hedgebook team.
Sign up now