Trade & Supply Chain Finance

Commodities may have come off the boil after a tumultuous 2022, but analysts are now seeing commodity price impacts in previously less exposed sectors.

Commodities may be notoriously capricious, but when there’s no buffer in your hedges it can be hard to bounce back, as CGTC found to its cost

The dollar-yuan exchange rate - now at its lowest in more than a decade - highlights the need for businesses with exposure to the Chinese currency to either fortify their positions ... or just take it on the chin

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.

A Chinese exporter tells CT why he abandoned Alibaba’s FX hedging platform and turned to an innovative alternative he figured out with a local bank

Called Fx Rate Locking, Alibaba’s foreign exchange hedging tool gives small businesses in China what they desperately need – scale.

In a world of volatile commodity prices and giddying currency fluctuations, hedging and derivatives make sense. But could your hedge be increasing your exposure?

Bank Indonesia plans to allow major lenders to offer call spreads to firms that need to hedge currency risks, a move that could cut hedging costs in half for some firms.

Essar Group concluded the world’s first online reserve auction for liquefied natural gas, a canny move in an uncertain market.

Thomas Tan, CIMB global sales, FX and transaction head offers advice to companies considering billing in local currencies to obtain better trade terms and improve group-wide hedging strategies.