Building Strategies to Hedge Against Exchange Rate Volatility Risk

An applied course in exchange rate hedging built around the decisions practitioners actually face.

📍 Abu Dhabi🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points

Course Overview

Regulators no longer accept intent as evidence of control over exchange rate hedging. In finance the difference between a healthy position on the financial and banking practice capability and a dangerous one is often a single assumption. Comparative studies of the practice within financial and banking practice across sectors find the same handful of failure points recurring. Buying a tool rarely fixes exchange rate hedging; the underlying capability has to be built internally first. Participants test their assumptions about this part of financial and banking practice against scenarios designed to break weak ones. The content is relevant to those who own the wider financial and banking practice agenda and to those who are held accountable for its results. This programme builds exchange rate hedging from first principles, without padding and without omitting what matters. The result is the confidence to make and defend decisions about this area of financial and banking practice under scrutiny. The final module sets out how progress on the financial and banking practice discipline will be evidenced six months later.

Expected Learning Outcomes

01

Set acceptance criteria for exchange rate hedging before work begins rather than after.

02

Build the control framework around exchange rate hedging that an examiner would accept.

03

Design the reporting on exchange rate hedging that reaches decision makers in time to act.

04

Plan the remediation route when a weakness in exchange rate hedging is identified.

05

Document decisions about exchange rate hedging in a form that remains useful after the people change.

06

Define the risk appetite applying to exchange rate hedging and translate it into operating limits.

07

Review contracts and agreements for the obligations they create around exchange rate hedging.

Who Should Attend

01

Finance managers reporting on exchange rate hedging.

02

Team leaders and supervisors who put exchange rate hedging into practice day to day.

03

Relationship and product managers whose targets depend on exchange rate hedging.

04

Board risk committee members overseeing exchange rate hedging.

05

Treasury and asset-liability staff managing exchange rate hedging.

06

Members of committees that take decisions affecting exchange rate hedging.

Course Modules

01

Exchange rate hedging: risk appetite, limits and policy

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Reviewing exchange rate hedging when nothing has gone wrong

  • Benchmark the organisation's exchange rate hedging against comparable operations.
  • Record what was learned when exchange rate hedging did not go as planned.
  • Agree the smallest change to exchange rate hedging that would be visibly useful.
  • Remove steps in exchange rate hedging that add effort without adding assurance.

Session 2What exchange rate hedging does to capital and liquidity under stress

  • Prepare the response for the most likely failure in exchange rate hedging.
  • Agree who signs off exchange rate hedging and record that they did.
  • Confirm segregation of duties across initiation, approval and settlement of exchange rate hedging.
  • Review the pricing of exchange rate hedging against the risk being assumed.
02

Exchange rate hedging: exceptions, breaches and remediation

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Getting other functions to support exchange rate hedging

  • Check the legal and contractual exposure created by exchange rate hedging.
  • Translate the appetite for exchange rate hedging into limits someone monitors daily.
  • Verify reconciliation and settlement controls covering exchange rate hedging.
  • Assess the capital consumed by exchange rate hedging under current and stressed conditions.

Session 2The control on exchange rate hedging that looks strong and is not

  • Identify the key controls over exchange rate hedging and who tests them.
  • Define the trigger that would require exchange rate hedging to be redesigned.
  • Estimate the resource exchange rate hedging requires to run as designed.
  • Confirm regulatory reporting on exchange rate hedging is complete, timely and reconciled.
03

Exchange rate hedging: the control framework and segregation of duties

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Moving exchange rate hedging from approval to execution

  • Build the internal briefing that explains exchange rate hedging to those affected.
  • Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for exchange rate hedging.
  • Review concentration by counterparty, sector and geography inside exchange rate hedging.
  • Build the competence framework that supports exchange rate hedging.

Session 2Stress scenarios for exchange rate hedging that are plausible rather than convenient

  • Check the accounting treatment applied to exchange rate hedging against current standards.
  • Confirm reporting on exchange rate hedging reaches the committee that can act on it.
  • Anticipate the objections exchange rate hedging will raise and prepare the answers.
  • Set early warning indicators for exchange rate hedging with defined action thresholds.
04

Exchange rate hedging: pricing, profitability and risk-adjusted return

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1What a supervisor will ask about exchange rate hedging, and in what order

  • Verify six months later that changes to exchange rate hedging have held.
  • Define acceptance criteria for exchange rate hedging in advance.
  • Prepare the evidence pack demonstrating exchange rate hedging operated as designed.
  • Prepare the summary of exchange rate hedging that senior management will read.

Session 2Handling a breach of policy on exchange rate hedging properly

  • Record the rationale for each significant choice made about exchange rate hedging.
  • Test exchange rate hedging against a scenario the organisation would rather not model.
  • Confirm that reporting on exchange rate hedging reaches the people who can act.
  • List the assumptions in any model supporting exchange rate hedging and when each was last challenged.

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USD1,250
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  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

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USD1,850
  • 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

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