Currency risk
Stressed VAR will hit forex options, dealers warn
Certain forex options and exotics penalised by Basel 2.5, including emerging market currencies and double no-touches
Targeting currency risks
Targeting currency risks
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Putting cash to work – Now and post Solvency II
Australian super funds look to cross-currency basis swaps
Cross purposes
Indian corporates struggle with FCCB redemptions
Many Indian issuers of foreign currency convertible bonds maturing this year face defaulting on the debt after depressed equity prices force the companies to redeem rather than convert the bonds to equity
Greek reversion to drachma easier than euro conversion, say analysts
If Greece were to leave the eurozone it would have to establish a new currency in record time; analysts explain how the process would be simpler today due to technological advances
FX Week Asia: Corporate hedgers rattled by volatility
Tumultuous foreign exchange market in September has left some hedging strategies in disarray and led to more timely exposure monitoring in one treasury department, say corporate treasurers speaking at FX Week Asia
Disenchantment with equities boosts attractions of forex
Tapping the power of forex
Renminbi internationalisation poses potentially fatal risks
Restraining the risks
Pension funds urge US Congress to act fast on debt-ceiling deal
Pension funds and investment firms highlight inflation, interest rate and currency risks of US default in open letters to President Obama
Inflation-linked structured products attract UK investors as risk appetite recovers
Inflation-linked structured products attracting UK investors
South African investors turn to Australian dollar in search for yields
South African investors bank on Australian dollar
El Al enhances risk management and hedging operations
Israel’s national airline tightens up on the way it hedges jet fuel risk and currency movements
Renminbi liberalisation opens doors to investment
Behind China’s great currency wall
South Korean export markets won’t slow
South Korean freight derivatives growth will not slow, despite the financial regulator’s institutional warning to Barclays and a caution to an individual at JP Morgan for breaking local banking rules by selling inappropriate currency derivatives that are…
Global economic slowdown raises risk of protectionism
The rise of protectionism
EM investors should be wary of currency movements, says Payden & Rygel
Managing principals Robin Creswell and Kristin Ceva say currency volatility is a risk for local currency investments.
Emerging markets inflation offered in index form
Emerging markets inflation offered in index form
Bond investors dampen talk of 'currency wars'
Currency manipulation is gaining ground as governments look to grow exports and control inflows. But any talk of imminent currency conflict is overblown, say credit investors.
Analysts hit back at currency war claims
Further Plaza II-type agreement is unlikely, however, and only weak "peer pressure" applied to currency problems, says Barclays Young
Citi Eurostoxx 50 product courts currency risk
Currency risk included
Trade of the month: Non-domestic underlyings
When investors are seeking diversification that includes foreign currencies, there is a choice of methods for approaching currency risk
Banks scramble to offer renminbi products as Hong Kong gains offshore interbank status
Creation of offshore renminbi interbank market in Hong Kong is seen as boon for new investor products