FX & Interest-Rate Risk Management for Corporates
A margin built in the boardroom can be dismantled by the currency market in a quarter. Hedging is not speculation — it is the decision to keep the profit you have already earned — and this programme makes that decision systematic.
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Classroom · Virtual
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Importers watch a weakening currency inflate costs; exporters, a strengthening one eroding competitiveness; floating-rate borrowers carry interest bills set by others’ decisions. This two-day FX risk management course for corporates gives CFOs, finance managers and import-export businesses command of the problem — in plain corporate-side language. Identification and measurement first: currency and rate exposures found in the company’s flows, contracts and debt; a realistic adverse move sized against margin and covenants. It explains the hedging instruments banks propose — forwards, swaps, options — plainly enough to compare cost, flexibility and fit, and what an option’s premium buys. Day two is governance: a hedge policy — objectives, ratios, authorities — the board can own; hedge-accounting questions for auditors before dealing, not after; and a negotiating posture — quotes compared, margins questioned — that makes the bank a counterparty, not an oracle. Companies book it in-house for their finance teams. Delivered in English and French across the Middle East, Africa and Asia — Dubai, Nairobi, Lagos, Singapore, London — and live online.
What you will do
Who attends
CFOs and finance directors; finance managers, controllers and treasury staff of importing, exporting and borrowing businesses; owners and general managers of trading companies with significant currency flows; and board members who approve hedging authority and want to understand what they are signing. Written for the corporate side of the table across every industry — no markets background is assumed — and companies frequently book it in-house for the whole finance team.
Programme agenda
Built for the decisions no textbook prepares you for
I.Finding the exposure
- Where currency risk lives: import costs, export revenues, currency debt and pricing terms
- Where rate risk lives: floating-rate borrowing, refinancing dates and cash deposits
- Transaction, translation and economic exposure — separating what to hedge from what to accept
II.Measuring what it could cost
- Building the exposure map from the company’s own flows and debt schedule
- Sensitivity analysis: what a realistic adverse move does to margin, cash flow and covenants
- Deciding the risk appetite: how much exposure the business can genuinely carry
III.The instruments, explained plainly
- Forwards: certainty at a known rate, and the discipline of delivering into them
- Interest-rate swaps: converting floating to fixed, and when that trade makes sense
- Options: paying a premium for flexibility — what it buys, what it costs, when it fits
IV.The hedge policy
- Objectives, hedge ratios and horizons: rules made in calm weather for use in storms
- Authorities, limits and reporting the board actually reads
- Hedge-accounting awareness: the questions to put to your auditors before you deal
V.Facing the banks
- How banks price and margin corporate hedges — and how to compare quotes properly
- Documentation essentials: credit terms, collateral calls and break clauses before you sign
- The negotiation clinic: hedging conversations rehearsed from the corporate’s chair
Frequently asked
Do participants need prior markets or hedging knowledge?
No. The programme is written in plain, corporate-side language for CFOs, finance managers, controllers, treasury staff and even board members who approve hedging authority — no markets background is assumed. Two days take you from identifying and measuring exposure to comparing instruments and governing the hedge.
Which hedging instruments does the course explain?
Forwards, interest-rate swaps and options — the instruments banks will actually propose — explained plainly enough to compare cost, flexibility and fit, including what an option’s premium buys. The aim is not product mastery but informed choice: comparing quotes, questioning margins and reading the documentation before signing.
Does it cover hedge accounting?
It builds hedge-accounting awareness rather than technical accounting skill: participants learn which questions to put to their auditors before dealing — not after — so the hedge protects the profit-and-loss line it was meant to protect. Detailed accounting standards work is deliberately left to your audit advisers.
Can we run it in-house for our finance team?
Yes. Companies frequently book this programme in-house for the whole finance team, tailored to their flows, debt profile and jurisdictions, so the exposure map, hedge policy and negotiation posture are built around real numbers. It is delivered in English and French; dates on request, fees on enquiry.
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