Hedging Exchange Rate | Currency risk using Matching If you have a sales transaction with one foreign customer, and then a purchase transaction with another (but both parties operate with the same foreign currency) then this can be efficiently dealt with by opening a foreign currency bank account. For example: 1 November: should receive US$2m from US customer 15 November:
Continue reading Hedging Exchange Rate | Currency risk using Netting If you owe your Japanese supplier ¥1m, and another Japanese company owes your Japanese subsidiary ¥1.1m, then by netting off group currency flows your net exposure is only for ¥0.1m. This will really only work effectively when there are many sales and purchases in the foreign currency. It would not be feasible
Continue reading Hedging currency/Exchange Rate risk using own currency invoice Arrange for the contract and the invoice to be in your own currency. This will shift all exchange risk from you onto the other party. Of course, who bears the risk will be a matter of negotiation, along with price and other payment terms. If you are very keen to get a
Continue reading There are three main types of currency risk as detailed below. Economic risk The source of economic risk is the change in the competitive strength of imports and exports. For example, if a company is exporting (let’s say from the UK to a eurozone country) and the euro weakens from say €/£1.1 to €/£1.3 (getting more euros per pound sterling
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Continue reading There are three main types of currency risks: Economic risk, Translation risk and Transaction risk. Please click the following topics/titles to read more detail about currency/Exchange Rate risk:
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