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CFOs – Are your Interest Rate Swaps now In-The-Money?
CFOs that hedged their interest rate exposures before the recent aggressive rise in global base rates are most likely holding interest rate swaps (IRS) that are now significantly In-The-Money (ITM),
Stay Ahead of the Curve this EoFY
CFOs have been busy hedging their interest risk exposures this year due to aggressive global increases in base rates. A common afterthought is accounting for the financial instruments executed. This
ASIC’s approach ahead of significant upcoming law reform in October 2021
Ahead of the effectiveness of significant law reform for the broader financial services industry, ASIC Chairman Joe Longo stated that: “While these reforms have been in the pipeline for some
AFS Breach Reporting Reforms – Are you ready?
As of 1 October 2021, AFS licensees need to brace themselves, and be ready for, the introduction of the new breach reporting framework and the risks it poses to operating
Markets await Biden’s Fiscal Package
Market Update: 13 January 2021 Recent market volatility has been triggered by the uncertainty surrounding Joe Biden’s likely fiscal package, which is due to be announced on Thursday. Long-dated US
Rallying commodity prices underpin the AUD
Market Update: 6 January 2021 COVID is once again resurgent with many western economies going back into Lockdown. While we ultimately expect the various vaccines to curtail the virus, the
Inept Politicians result in fading risk appetite and a pull back in the AUD
Market Update: 8 December 2020 Global policy makers are failing to get deals done. In Europe the BREXIT trade deal hangs in the balance and in the US law makers
Out with the old, and in with the new.
Market Update: 25 November 2020 Equity markets flying on Biden transition, Cabinet picks, vaccine news, and lockdown roll backs. AUD/USD has reasserted it’s a correlation with global equity markets
Market risk appetite is oscillating between concerns over escalating COVID cases in Europe and North America and optimism over an imminent vaccine.
Market Update: 19 November 2020 As both Pfizer and Moderna show very encouraging signs for their vaccine, the pandemic is escalating in large parts of the world, with Tokyo on
Market ignoring Trump tantrum
Market Update: 10 November 2020 Despite the petulant tweets of the incumbent, the general perception is there is nothing Trump can do to prevent Joe Biden from assuming the Presidency.
The Divided States of America
Market Update: 5 November 2020 The pollsters once again seem to have missed the beat of the American populous, as the US Presidential Election remains undecided and voting has been