Understanding the principles behind treasury products
The correlation between derivatives and basic treasury products

Content

The seminar will introduce the most important corporate treasury instruments and their use in real life. Participants get to know the standard foreign exchange and money market instruments, learn how to define benchmarks and explore the impact of the yield curve, market opinion and risk aversion/willingness on the selection of a strategy and instruments. Simulations of several business cases allow a better understanding of the hedging strategies recommended by banks and applied by their corporate customers.

Learning for the real world

• The seminar will introduce the most important corporate treasury instruments and their ground rules:
• FX spots and outrights
• FX swaps and their relations to money market and FX outrights
• introduction to FX options
• interest rate swaps
• forward rate swaps
• introduction to interest rate options – caps, floors, collars, swaptions
• Correlation between derivatives and basic products
• Assessment of the chances and risks of different hedging strategies
• Rules governing the attractiveness of different strategies from the customer#s point of view
• Spotting hedging needs in various individual situations
• Application of different hedging strategies to customers' business cases

Cyber*Preparation

• Financial mathematics for the money and capital markets
• FX management, FX spots, outrights, swaps
• Interest rate management, interest rate swaps
• Treasury documentation

Target group

• Corporate CFOs and financial managers, corporate treasurers
• Relationship managers of financial institutions
• Corporate accounts officers
• Staff from the treasury’s corporate sales and related departments