Blogs

A popular blog first released in 2015, largely to help explain what an Interest Rate Swap or IRS is. Funnily enough – the need to know is just as great today, if not greater.

Here are three key ways Hedgebook makes life easier for investment fund managers or similar finance functions within a hedge fund, private equity or VC firm.

Since it was first published in 2014 thousands have benefited from this blog’s common-sense approach to a common misunderstanding. It relates to the calculation of foreign exchange (FX) forward points.

Not only are companies struggling with the increased focus on exchange rates, but our auditors are also having to learn new tricks.

Lockdown has made building FX customer relationships a whole lot harder – but does it have to be? Hedgebook asks the question.

Hedgebook takes a look at FVA (Funding Valuation Adjustments) that sit alongside CVA and DVA within the family of derivative valuations.

In working with wine companies over the years the Hedgebook team has a real appreciation for the complexity of managing FX risk for wine importers and exporters.

The pros and cons of auto-hedging is becoming a key debate; what is it, the motivations for it and what concerns could customers have?

While we continue to develop new Hedgebook features it’s good to take stock of our perennially popular features and reports.

The Hedgebook Audit launch was over five years ago in direct response to a customer enquiry – it now serves customers globally.

At the end of last year we sat around the ‘virtual’ table, hypothesising as to how the world may have changed for banks  FX trading teams over 2020. Which was when one of Hedgebook’s more…

When we first took a look at end-of-year derivative valuations back in 2013 borrower derivatives such as interest rate swaps looked much healthier compared to the previous year. However, the reaction of the financial markets…