Recently named Asia Risk magazine's Interest Rate Derivatives House of the
Year, Standard Chartered is well-positioned to meet the needs of customers
for risk management solutions in the global financial markets. We offer a
wide range of financial hedging tools: currency options and interest rate
derivatives to manage foreign exchange and interest rate exposures;
non-deliverable forwards to manage exchange rate exposures of offshore
customers; as well as credit derivatives and other synthetic credit
products to provide customised investment products and structured
financing solutions.
Interest Rate Risk
Standard Chartered offers a full range of interest rate derivatives
products to meet your specific risk management needs, ranging from plain
vanilla to exotic. Applications
include solutions for interest rate and currency hedging and risk management,
as well as strategies for yield enhancement.
Product coverage extends to both G3 and emerging markets,
with trading in more than 30 currencies in 12 countries worldwide.
For more information and
advice on how to better manage your interest rate risk, please contact your
local Standard Chartered Relationship Manager.
Currency Risk
Standard Chartered offers a full
suite of options products, from the plain vanilla to the exotic, for diverse
risk management needs. Structured option strategies are also available for
specific hedging and trading purposes.
In addition to a strong presence in all the major financial markets, our
niche is in the emerging market currencies where an extensive international
network and in-depth local knowledge provide unique insights. We have a team of
dedicated traders, structurers and analysts working across all timezones to
provide you with customised solutions to manage your risk wherever you are in
the world.
The growth of
structured products has seen increasing use of FX options embedded into other
structures, providing investors with enhanced yields, or borrowers with cheaper
funding. FX options can be combined with all sorts of financial transactions to
enhance their appeal or efficiency, so whether it be a straightforward
trade-related hedge or a complex cross-product derivative exposure, we have the
capabilities to help you get the best out of the markets.
For innovative and
customised currency risk management solutions, please contact your local
Standard Chartered Relationship Manager.
Exchange Rate
The Non-Deliverable Forwards market allows offshore
parties to hedge exchange rate exposures on many Asian, African and Latin
American currencies, without any physical transfer of these currencies and
without having to deal in the local market, thereby eliminating local
counterparty risk and the cost of holding accounts in local currencies.
Investors are able to gain access and
exposure to higher yielding markets.
Leveraging on an onshore international presence and 150
years of experience in the emerging markets, Standard Chartered is a leading
player in the global NDF market.
We offer NDF hedging solutions such as cash settled currency options in
NDF currencies for maturities up to one year, as well as non-deliverable cross
currency swaps with maturities of up to five years.
For better exchange rate
risk management solutions, please contact your local Standard Chartered
Relationship Manager.
