foreign exchange rate:
translation risk: consolidated financial statement,
transaction: received less or paid more
economic risk: asset value decreased by the impact of exchange rate change.
applying:
single transaction
investment project appraisal
hedging: fixing the exchange rate for the future transactions
derivatives & underlying asset
fowward
future
swaps
option
moving against
moving in your favour
- synthetic
- netting map
transaction risk: uncertainty of the exchange rate in future due date
solutions: hedging
economic risk : longterm movement uncertainty of the value of the business- solutions: be diversified, netting map
translation: gain or loss on translation in the financial reporting solution fund asset with the local fund
internal technologies:
1. all transaction under home currency
2. leading moving against you pay or receive early
3. lagging moving in your favour pay or receive later
4. matching off: same foreign currency received and paid
money market hedge (MMH) commercial loan and bank deposit to offset the future payment and receivable
pay: take home currency loan, exchange in spot rate and deposit in foreign currency to meet future payment, on due, pay off the loan
receive: take foreign loan and and covert at spot rate, on due date, use the receivable to payoff the loan.
take into account of the interest
interest rate parity:
rf--- foreign currency interest rate
rh---base currency interest rate