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Foreign Exchange Risk Management

Course Start Date: 21st May 2023

Training Duration: 4 Days

Practical application through exercises:

  • Excel Exercises
  • Case Studies

Learning Outcomes

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To learn the concept of foreign exchange & its management

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To understand the causes of foreign exchange risk

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To learn the basic concepts of forecasting foreign exchange movements

To learn about FX forward rates

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To learn about foreign exchange risk management and its techniques

Course Outlines

  • What is Foreign Exchange Risk
  • What is Foreign Exchange Risk Management
  • Macroeconomic Factors
  • Government Policies
  • Sovereign Risk
  • Key global macro-economic indicators and their impact on the USD movement
  • Fundamental Analysis and Leading Market Indicators
  • Technical Analysis and Patterns and Forecast Methods
  • Calculating Forward Rates
  • Factors affecting forward rate premium/ discount
  • The Determinants of Spot and Forward Rates: Covered, Uncovered and Purchasing Power Parity
  • Measuring and Evaluating Foreign Exchange Risk
  • Transactional Risk and best practices to hedge the same
  • Translational Risk and best practices to hedge the same
  • Determining the Risk Management Strategy – assessing impact and probability
  • Internal Hedging Techniques 
  • Invoicing in the local currency, 
  • Netting, 
  • Matching, 
  • Leading & Lagging
  • External Hedging Techniques & Strategies
  • Hedging with specialized ETFs, 
  • Hedging with Contract For Differences
  • Forward Exchange Contracts – Fixed and Option
  • Forward contracts
  • Currency futures
  • Currency options
  • Currency swaps
  • Hedging V/s Financial Instruments