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…
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…
PwC New Zealand and Hedgebook team up to co-develop the FX Strategy Tool
PwC New Zealand, a leading treasury advisory provider in New Zealand, has collaborated with treasury software developer, Hedgebook, to create the foreign exchange hedging Strategy Tool. The Strategy Tool is an add-on module to the…
Rising interest rates, positive impact on borrower’s IRS valuations
Despite a backdrop of trade wars, Brexit and other geo political uncertainties most regions have experienced an environment of increasing interest rates as the outlook is interpreted as generally positive. This has been most pronounced…
Structured options: part of a balanced FX hedge portfolio
Somewhat ironically, it is our observation that structured option products for FX hedging are heavily used by small-to-mid sized commercial firms and often overlooked by larger organisations. Many treasury policies exclude exotic options, unless approved…
Financial Reporting Council – The Enforcers
Did you know that the UK accounting watchdog, the Financial Reporting Council, nearly doubled its fines to £12.8m last year for non-compliance with FRS102 when conducting audits? A common area of non-compliance for audit firms…
UK team expands
It has been twelve months since Hedgebook’s CEO, Richard Eaddy, packed his bags and headed to London to spread the Hedgebook gospel. The success over this time has validated Hedgebook’s relevance for the UK/European market…
Featured Client: ALSO
As Hedgebook spreads its wings to new jurisdictions, it is appropriate that this edition of Rickshaw features a non-Australian or New Zealand company. ALSO’s head office is in Switzerland and provides a B2B market place…
Interest Rate Profile Tool
One of my favourite roles at Hedgebook is working with our awesome development team to deliver new, cool functionality for our users. Recently we have been working on the development of an interactive tool to…
Technology sector leader joins Hedgebook as shareholder and director
New Zealand based fintech company, Hedgebook, has successfully completed its latest funding round with a significant investment from experienced technology entrepreneur and leader Peter Dickinson. Peter joins Hedgebook as its newest shareholder and director. Hedgebook’s…
Featured Client: Rockit Apples
Hawke’s Bay is home to a host of food and wine exporters. The climate and fertile soil are ideal growing conditions and we are spoilt by all the produce from New Zealand’s “food bowl”. Pip…
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…