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Treasury Reflections – looking back over the last two years
21/12/22
Treasury Reflections – looking back over the last two years
In this guest blog, Head of Bancorp Treasury Services, Dean Sharrar, takes a timely look at his ‘treasury reflections’ examining what was a very different 2021 and 2022 to what anyone would have previously predicted.  While it can always be said we live in interesting times, the last two or...
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Hedgebook Partners with TreasuryXpress
25/11/18
Hedgebook Partners with TreasuryXpress
We are excited to form a new Partnership with TreasuryXpress, a leader of on-demand digital treasury management solutions. Customers using TreasuryXpress’s platform benefit from easy-to-implement electronic payment workflows that helps automate payments and remove payment risk. TreasuryXpress and Hedgebook share a common goal – bring cost effective treasury tools to...
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Migration to MS Azure (a Hedgebook case study by Microsoft)
17/08/18
Migration to MS Azure (a Hedgebook case study by Microsoft)
Founded in 2011, in New Zealand, Hedgebook is a dynamic, international financial software company delivering innovative treasury management solutions to SMEs and their treasury providers – such as banks and foreign exchange brokers. Its mission is ‘simple’. To provide analytical tools which make life easier for financial professionals. People who...
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15/02/17
Impact of path dependent options
One of the difficulties companies face when using path dependent options, such as leveraged collars or participating forwards, is that the amount of cover in place will alter under different market conditions. Example: NZ based exporter hedging USD receipts to NZD FX product = leveraged collar Leverage ratio = 2...
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06/04/16
Credit conditions worsening means greater materiality of CVA/DVA
The introduction of IFRS 13 in January 2013 was, in part, recognition of the mispricing of market credit risk that had resulted in the near collapse of financial markets in 2008. IFRS 13 requires “fair value” to include a credit adjustment for financial instruments such as FX forwards, FX options...
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06/09/15
Spreadsheets: a ticking time bomb
The main competitor to Hedgebook’s treasury management system (“TMS”) is excel spreadsheets. They are cheap (can’t get much cheaper than free!), flexible and easy to use. So why do companies choose to replace their spreadsheets with a TMS? Despite the positives of spreadsheets they also represent a significant risk to...
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23/06/15
Year-end Financial Instrument Check List
30 June marks the financial year-end for many Australian and New Zealand public and private companies, as well as Councils. With an ever increasing compliance burden, we have put together a practical check list for those entities that have exposure to financial instruments such as FX forwards, FX options and...
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17/04/14
IFRS 7 – Disclosure Requirements of Financial Instruments
A key pillar of Hedgebook’s ethos is to make life easier for corporates in managing and reporting their financial derivative exposures. This approach extends to aiding Treasurers and CFOs comply with the ever increasing compliance requirements of accounting standards. The most recent standard to create further onus on corporates is...
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13/12/13
IFRS 13: Fair value measurement – Credit Value Adjustment
The purpose of this blog is to examine IFRS 13 as it relates to the Credit Value Adjustment (CVA) of a financial instrument. In the post GFC environment, greater focus has been given to the impact of counterparty credit risk. IFRS 13 requires the valuation of counterparty credit risk to...
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Credit Value Adjustment
17/10/13
Credit Value Adjustment
Credit Value Adjustment or CVA has been around for a long time, however, with the introduction of the accounting standard IFRS13, this year there is a requirement to understand it a bit better. The new standard requires the CVA component to be separately reported from the fair value of a...
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The Future of Interest Rate Swaps: Will Regulation Kill this Investment Vehicle?
12/10/12
The Future of Interest Rate Swaps: Will Regulation Kill this Investment Vehicle?
This is part 9 of a 10 part series on currency swaps and interest rate swaps and their role in the global economy. In part 8, we discussed the role of interest rate swaps in the demise of Greece. Given the importance of swaps in the U.S. housing crash, new regulation has arisen that could threaten the future of this important financial derivative.
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The Euro-zone Crisis: Goldman Sachs, Greece, and Swaps
10/10/12
The Euro-zone Crisis: Goldman Sachs, Greece, and Swaps
This is part 8 of a 10 part series on currency swaps and interest rate swaps and their role in the global economy. In parts 1 through 4, we discussed the differences between interest rate swaps and currency swaps, as well as the pricing mechanisms for fixed-for-floating, floating-for-floating, and fixed-for-fixed swaps. In part 8, we’ll discuss the role of swaps in more recent times: the Euro-zone crisis.
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08/10/12
Understanding Central Bank Liquidity Swaps
This is part 7 of a 10 part series on currency swaps and interest rate swaps and their role in the global economy. In part 7, we illustrated how companies use swaps in the global market place, but on a company-to-company basis. In part 8, we’ll explain the purpose of swaps on the central bank level and when they’re used.
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02/10/12
Floating-for-Floating and Fixed-for-Fixed Swaps: Domestic and Foreign Currency Transactions
This blog on floating-for-floating and fixed-for-fixed swaps is part 4 of a 10 part series on currency swaps and interest rate swaps and their role in the global economy.
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Why Are Interest Rate Swaps Important?: A Brief History
12/09/12
Why Are Interest Rate Swaps Important?: A Brief History
In this blog we discuss the history of interest rate swaps so as to better understand the vital importance of this investment vehicle.
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20/08/12
The GFC, Corporate Governance and Hedgebook…
In the wake of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), Corporate Governance has become a key focus, not just for large organisations but for small to medium sized entities as well. Corporate Governance relates to the rules around how a company is controlled, whether it is by processes, policies, laws or...
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