Foreign Exchange Structured Products.
Independently reviewed and evaluated by experts who truly understand your business.
What are the risks and pitfalls when hedging with structured products?
Complexity of structures proposed, relevance to risk mitigation and policy, along with limited pricing transparency can have a material impact on your bottom line. We help companies manage these risks through:
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Evaluation
Testing appropriateness of bank proposed structures in line with your FX hedging policy.
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Demystification
Translating complex structured products into easy to understand business language.
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Pricing regulation
Independently providing companies with fair benchmark pricing.
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Recommendation
Proactively proposing bespoke hedging structures aligned to policies and profile, putting you in the driving seat with your bank.
Is a Foreign Exchange Structured Product right for your business?
The FX structured products market is growing incredibly fast and there is a real need for companies to be able to draw on experts who can advise on these complex products and evaluate their appropriateness as instruments to hedge foreign exchange risk. HiFX Advisory Services are the leading advisors bringing this independent, unbiased expertise to your company.
Our approach is based on clearly understanding your business needs, helping you to identify inherent FX risks, defining appropriate hedging policies and proactively recommending hedging structures that are bespoke to your needs. We do this by applying our considerable expertise in foreign exchange derivatives, ensuring that the options being proposed are appropriate, explained in business language and clearly understood by you.
Whether you are looking at a simple hedging problem or attempting to bring together a complex transaction in a volatile market, the expertise and insight of our consultants will deliver solutions tailored to your individual requirements.
What is a Structured Product?
FX Structured Products are powerful hedging tools, which enable companies to take protection against adverse exchange rate movements. In addition to providing a hedge, the option structure provides the opportunity to share in favourable rate movements in the foreign exchange market. FX structured solutions allow companies to design a hedging strategy that is in line with their individual risk and return objectives.
What we deliver
- Our key goal is to inject transparency into the options market.
- We will provide you with fair benchmark prices to ensure that your company is receiving the best value on all of your FX requirements.
- We will give you independent advice as to the appropriateness of the proposed structure in light of your FX hedging policy and exposures.
- We have the technology and in-house skills to advise on price and construct bespoke hedging structures.
- Our FX consultants help clients identify the best time to enter into a structure in relation to current market conditions.
- We remain unbiased and independent by not selling the structure to you, and ensuring that what we recommend is right for your business, not ours.
- We will provide an ongoing mark-to-market service for you when needed.
Key benefits
- Cost savings by regulating the pricing on proposed structures.
- We will put you in the driving seat and assist you in communicating your hedging needs to your bank, ensuring you receive fair pricing.
- We can help you meet your audit requirement by carrying out mark-to-market revaluations of your FX exposure.
- Bespoke option structures that better fit the business profile, providing an optimal balance of risk and return.
- Value added to your bottom-line through entering into structures at the appropriate time for your business.