by Ansua Dutta-Wystup | Dec 2, 2018 | Newsletter
Editorial Payoff, P&L and Effective Exchange Rate Diagrams Today, we go back to financial products 101 and discuss payoff, P&L and financial exchange rate diagrams. The reason is that I regularly experience confusion and misconception, thus it is time to...
by Tanja Aldenhoff | Oct 31, 2018 | Newsletter
Editorial Tender-Linked FX Forwards Financial product innovation in FX markets has slowed down enormously in the second decade. The big innovation for treasurers in the first decade was the target redemption forward, which has now become a standard range of products...
by Tanja Aldenhoff | Sep 28, 2018 | Newsletter
Editorial XOF XOF is not the exit for Offenbach, nor an old-fashioned precious metal, but the currency code for the CFA Franc. The West African CFA franc is the currency of eight independent states in West Africa: Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast,...
by Tanja Aldenhoff | Aug 28, 2018 | Newsletter
Editorial Trade Idea for the Turkish Lira The price of a EUR in Turkish Lira (EUR-TRY) has moved up from 5.00 to above 7.00 in the last 3 months, a rise by more than 40%. For currencies, even for emerging markets’ currencies, this is a dramatic move. Along with the...
by Tanja Aldenhoff | Aug 14, 2018 | Newsletter
FX EXOTIC OPTIONS TRAINING IN FRANKFURT Prof. Uwe Wystup will hold his bestseller course “FX Exotic Options” on December 10-12, 2018 in Frankfurt. This course is for anyone new to FX Exotics and for those who need to bring their knowledge up to date and learn how the...
by Tanja Aldenhoff | Jul 26, 2018 | Newsletter
Editorial The Allied European Financial Markets Association (AEFMA) will start its Certified Expert in Treasury and Markets CETM) in October 2018. I took the opportunity to interview Christian F. Buschmann, the speaker of AEFMA’s board of education. Link to AEFMA:...
