Cross-currency swaps
Lack of CSAs restricts forex hedging options for Australian institutions
Returns for hedging via long-term cross-currency swaps are attractive, but few are able to do so because of the lack of credit support annexes in place
Australian banks lobby for reduced margin on cross-currency swaps
Current treatment of initial margin on uncleared swaps will cost Australian banks $21 billion
Cross-currency flap leaves cloud over IFRS 9
Purely hypothetical
Insurers look to negotiate CSAs ahead of new clearing rules
Support structures
Asian currency hedgers to be hit by ‘fatal flaw’ in new accounting rules
A major change is needed to correct new hedge accounting rules, which could restrict derivatives use by Asian firms hedging their foreign currency exposures
HK insurers ramp up dollar hedging activities
Insurers in Hong Kong are revising their long-term policy of not hedging out their US dollar exposures
Saving structured finance: Dealers vie for SPV replacement swaps
The SPV swap replacement game
Risk 25: How Basel III is turning borders into barriers
Turning borders into barriers
Cooking with collateral
Cooking with collateral
UK utilities face swap counterparty shortage
Bank downgrades could leave many structured finance transactions without acceptable swap providers - a potential nightmare for UK utilities
Downgrade doomsday: utilities fear swap dealer shortage
Downgrade doomsday
Forex structurers get it wrong
Forex's unreliable fortunes
Australian super funds look to cross-currency basis swaps
Cross purposes
Standard CSA: the dollar dominance dispute
The dollar dominance dispute
Financial institutions move to address funding squeeze in Asia
Funding dilemmas
Getting CVA up and running
Getting CVA up and running
Standard CSA: Industry's solution to novation bottleneck gets nearer
New CSA, new challenge
Standard CSA: Industry's solution to novation bottleneck gets nearer
New CSA, new challenge
StanChart bests the rest for coporates derivatives in Asia
The standard bearer
Eurostat continues to deny knowledge of Greece-Goldman swaps
Statistics body insists it only found out about the controversial cross-currency swaps between Greece and Goldman Sachs in 2010
China gives the go-ahead to forex options and cross-currency swaps
Hedging gains currency
BoAML debuts cross-currency swap with corporate onshore in China
Bank of America Merrill Lynch has conducted what is believed to be the first currency swap in China with a corporate client after Safe gave the green light for such transactions to start trading on March 1.
FX risk tools grow as intra-Asia trade and investment soars
Intra-regional surge