When interest rates begin to move there are only two types of treasurer: fixed or floating. What type you are will depend on your exposure and your appetite for risk
Overshadowed by Brexit but no less impactful, the end of Libor is a big bang for contracts worth trillions. ISDA’s Anne Battle says treasurers need to shore up contract fallbacks sooner rather than later.
News the fintech startup has signed a deal with a top-ten US bank has improved its share price, but will it – eventually – improve your treasury operations? CT takes a look.
It’s not just the US Fed that is seeking to increase interest rates – other central banks are poised to follow suit. Corporate treasurers with hedged debt need to respond.
Interest rates rising? Rivals snapping at your heels? The treasurer at one of the Philippines’ biggest petroleum companies tells CT how he poured oil on a troubled interest rate sea.
Treasurers in Hong Kong are eyeing a US rate hike in September, but as uncertainty lingers – and the gap between the rates in HK and the US remains – the HKMA is left to bail out the currency.
If traditional industries are the ground troops in the looming conflict, cross-border e-commerce platform Youkeshu is China’s militia. Its CFO talks trade warfare, hedging strategy and bank relationships.
In one month, China’s foreign exchange regulator has fined 48 corporates, banks and individuals. European chemistry giant Solvay, as well as HSBC, are on the list.
