Vanilla options TARF and participating forwards. A case study. There are some common questions that repeatedly get posed in my treasury products class about the variations available within exotic derivative instruments. Are these exotic contracts really needed? Who really benefits from selling these exotic products?
Investors – financial institutions, non-financial institutions, individuals – choose the FX Markets for a number of reasons that include hedging of their FX exposures against adverse currency movements, benefiting from a diversification of investments, earning a more attractive risk adjusted return, speculating and betting on
Dual Currency Deposits (DCD) are structured products that allow an investor to earn an increased interest rate as compared to the base rate that would be earned on a regular fixed term currency deposit. Besides the enhanced interest rate, the product is designed so that
Market Analysis Crude Oil Crude oil price close on Friday at $48.15/BBL, gained 0.61% from Thursday. The rise is due to a Trans Niger Pipeline leakage in Nigeria. Crude oil prices remained volatile, primarily on Middle East crises and rose to $50.12/BBL. Tuesday crude oil
AML governance framework, risk-based approach & elements of a reporting system In our previous post we discussed what money laundering is. We listed the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) 40 recommendations that are used to develop and implement national AML/CTF regulations and laws to counter
Money Laundering and the foundation for implementing an effective Anti-Money Laundering System Money Laundering is the attempt to disguise the proceeds generated from criminal or illegal sources and activities as if they were produced by legitimate means. Unrestrained money laundering provides an incentive for criminal
What is the likely impact of the recent Qatar crisis on international LNG trade originating from Qatar? Facts Qatar exported 80 million tons of LNG in 2016, approximately 31% of total global supply. The route out of Middle East for crude oil as well as
Market Analysis Crude Oil Crude oil price close on Friday at $49.95/BBL and decrease by 4.48%. Crude started strong on gasoline stocks and memorial day long weekend and supported further during the week on bullish data of EIA inventories which as strong drawdown of 6.43
Market Analysis Crude Oil Crude Oil started strong primarily on expectation of rumors of further production cut and rallied strongly till 25th May 2017. On Friday Brent was trading at $52.23/BBL decrease by $2.44 from the peak of $54.67/bbl. Profit taking was observed on 24th
Market Analysis Crude Oil Brent closed at $53.61/bbl, increase by 5.34% from last Friday closing price. Market remained bullish primarily due to news of Saudi Arabia and Russia on extending the production cut by 9 months. As per BHI, US rig count increase by 8