The Financial Accounting Standards Board issued a new accounting standards update aimed at improving its existing hedge ...

Deal-contingent hedging (linking the settlement of a vanilla hedging instrument to the success or failure of the underlying transaction) has evolved from an efficient way of mitigating ...

The primary objective of currency hedging is mitigating FX risk, and it’s important to note that hedged returns are not the ...

Charles Schwab Corp. started using derivatives to hedge interest rate-related risk during the first quarter. The derivatives had a notional value of $3.9 billion as of March 31, the Westlake, ...

Charles Schwab Corp. started using derivatives to hedge interest rate-related risk during the first quarter. The derivatives were valued at $3.9 billion as of March 31, Schwab said in a regulatory ...

Optimization of forward points (the difference between the spot and the forward rate for a currency pair) enables companies to take advantage of these differences, which are driven by the interaction ...

The steep rise in interest rates over the past year is forcing some borrowers to accept a new rule: no hedge, no loan. Highly indebted companies are increasingly facing requirements to hedge their ...

As 2016 draws to a close, many investors are evaluating what (if any) changes need to be made to their portfolios for 2017. For fixed income investments, a crucial question will be how much interest ...

Few U.S. banks protected themselves against rising interest rates during the Federal Reserve’s monetary-tightening campaign last year, according to a research paper that says unhedged securities ...

Uncertainty ahead of Wednesday’s U.K. budget prompted traders to increase their protection against big swings in sterling in ...