AFP FX Risk Management Resource Center

Managing FX exposures is important at any time. Given the renewed volatility and uncertainty surrounding the euro and other currencies, how should your company be hedging these exposures? What's the outlook for the euro and other currencies? What are potential short and long term effects from the soveriegn debt crisis on U.S. corporations? Does your company have the right policies and metrics in place to accurately measure your FX risk exposure?

• Discussions on FX Risk Management at June 2010 Corporate Treasurers Council Roundtables
• Discussion with the European Central Bank
• FX Hedging from the Bankers' Perspective
• Senior Level Corporate Practitioners Discuss FX, Hedging and Other Finance Topics
• A view from Canada: Parity Rules
• Senate Passes Sweeping Financial Regulatory Reform Legislation
• FX Risk Management--Will Washington Make it Better or Worse?

• AFP Interview with Jiro Okochi, CEO of Reval

Follow Recent FX discussions through the AFP Discussion Boards.

FX discussions topics include:

• Recommendation for FX/Market Rates Providers
• FX Hedge Policy
• FX Hedge Ratio
• FX Policy Review

FX Hedge Policy

Given the volitility of the FX Market, AFP is offering the above policy on a complimentary basis.

• AFP's Foreign Currency Risk Management Policy Guidelines
• Click here to purchase the entire AFP Manual of Treasury Policies

 

2010 AFP Financial Risk Survey (FX)

AFP conducted its first "Financial Risk Survey" in November 2009 to ascertain:
(1) the types of financial risk that organizations faced over the previous twelve month,
(2) the instruments that organizations used and are using to mitigate those risks, and
(3) the reasons organizations use those instruments.

Recent Articles

• X Marks the Spot: Cross-hedging works well when offsets are not aligned
• Say it Isn't So: Does the shortcut method have to go?
• Forwards or Futures: The two hedging tools share similarities and differences
• Lost in Translation: Why Your Currency Hedging Program is Not Working
• Beat the System - Preparing for the Next Systemic Risk Crisis
• Lean Machine: Applying Manufacturing Principles to Treasury and Finance
• Taming Commodity Risk, A Two-tier Hedging Strategy
• Cloudy Futures and Clear Visions
• Say When: Determining How Much to Hedge

AFP 2009 Annual Conference Educational Sessions

• FAS 157 - The Impact on Derivatives and Debt
• Are You Hedged? Managing Exposures Effectively!
• Back to Basics - Introduction and Refresher to SFAS 52
• Maximizing Global FX Management through Systems Design and STP
• The New Liquidity Diet: How to Manage FX Risks to Cut Costs and Preserve Liquidity
• FX Risk Management as a Value Driver
• Pragmatic Approaches for Managing FX Risk in an Operational Context