LIBOR has been referred to as the plumbing buried in many financial contracts, and the end of LIBOR will cause a seismic shift in the financial markets. I had the privilege of speaking about LIBOR in a podcast and a live-stream session at the...
October
04,
2019
Posted by
Farah Lotia
You Can Rely on Us If you use Hedge Trackers’ Outsourcing and/or Software suite (Capella) services, you might be wondering what’s going to happen when interest rate reform occurs and SOFR replaces LIBOR in early 2021. Although that seems a bit...
September
24,
2019
Posted by
Farah Lotia
Rates & Recession: What Happened? Last Wednesday, The Fed lowered its target for the federal funds rate by a quarter percentage point, to a range of 1.75% to 2%.
September
09,
2019
Posted by
Jeff Goggins
Digital Treasury is the latest trend that’s slated to transform corporate treasury departments — and organizations as a whole. A digital treasury is one that uses technology to streamline manual and repetitive tasks and create real-time...
September
06,
2019
Posted by
Ruth Hardie & Farah Lotia
As a follow up to FASB’s June initiative to provide accounting relief to organizations that will need to modify their contracts as LIBOR is replaced by SOFR, FASB released a proposed Accounting Standards Update on Thursday.
September
03,
2019
Posted by
Jeff Goggins
Technology adoption in treasury is moving at a lightning pace. Treasurers view legacy processes such as printing checks, aggregating prior day cash balances and gathering manual foreign currency exposures as (soon to be) things of the past. Much...
August
28,
2019
Posted by
Sandra Koch
In order to mitigate foreign currency gains and losses, companies routinely hedge away currency risk associated with balance sheet exposures. Companies need to identify all monetary accounts on the balance sheet and aggregate the foreign amounts...
August
26,
2019
Posted by
Sandra Koch
Balance Sheet Exposures Balance sheet exposures are the drivers of the FX Gains and Losses that impact earnings every month. They are monetary accounts like cash, accounts receivable, accounts payable, inter-company balances and more that are...
August
19,
2019
Posted by
Sandra Koch
A majority of corporations identify and hedge balance sheet exposures. In fact, they are the most commonly hedged exposures by far. In order to do so, one must understand why balance sheet exposures pose a risk in the first place and how to...
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