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Turning Currency Volatility Into A Global FX Strategy

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Yet, understanding and developing a clear strategy for FX risk mitigation can be elusive, even for the largest firms. Studies also show that most executives agree their top challenge is market volatility and the struggle to determine when — and how — to hedge currency risk.

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As The SCA Deadline Approaches, Issuers Struggle With Preparedness

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Acquirers, he said, are obligated by the new regulations to perform transaction risk analysis. Ultimately, as cross-border commerce returns, we may get a sense of frictions inherent in transactions that cross currencies and time zones, said McLain. Robust risk analysis (and exemptions), of course, need data.

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AI Helps Fashion eTailers Boost Cross-Border Sales

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That means enabling customers to pay with their preferred, trusted payment methods and currencies. POPs can also provide merchants with other, related assistance like risk analysis and support fo r managing transaction flows. Achieving this can be a heavy lift for businesses, however.

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Commercial Cards Gear Up For Corporate Travel’s Return

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The solution offers value-added features like automatic COVID-19 travel alerts and risk analysis, according to Business Travel News , while also enabling corporate travelers to remain within their firms’ travel policies.

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How China Fuels Alternatives To Correspondent Banking

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The deal enables Harbour & Hills to process payments across a variety of currencies to all major banks in China via the nation’s central clearing system, thanks to Global Envoi’s Metrobank China partnership. “We’re not dependent on those correspondent banks for this particular corridor,” explained Tripathi.

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Data Update 4 for 2024: Danger and Opportunity - Bringing Risk into the Equation!

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In the graph below, I provide a distribution of corporate costs of capital, for US and global companies, in US dollars: If your frame of reference is another currency, be it the Euro or the Indian rupee, adding the differential inflation to these numbers will give you the ranges in that currency.

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CFOs, Treasurers Are The One-Two Punch Against FX Risk

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A recent report from Deloitte explores how to increase the corporate treasurer’s confidence in mitigating FX risk at their companies, a task the firm said largely depends on identifying less obvious areas of risk exposure. At the same time, a continued dependence on manual analytics can similarly mean a weak grip on FX risk mitigation.