Whoever conducts business internationally is exposed to the risk of exchange rate fluctuations. Exchange rate fluctuations can reduce the margin from the operating business and have a significant impact on the business result.
Currency hedging protects your company against major fluctuations in exchange rates. This increases planning certainty and allows you to focus more on your core business. Proper currency management is likely to remain a key issue for Swiss companies in the future. The reason for this is that the volatility of the financial markets and political and geopolitical uncertainties will continue to require consistent hedging.
Wide range of products
For every risk profile and hedging requirement, we offer proven solutions and instruments that can help you protect your company effectively against rising or falling exchange rates.
Many years of expertise
Our globally networked specialistswill provide you with their in-depth expertise in relation to the world's foreign exchange markets. On request, we can also supply you with relevant publications of our economic research.
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Our "my Solutions" portal offers you direct and convenient access to international foreign exchange markets so you can process your foreign exchange transactions. Find out more about "my Solutions" here or contact your client advisor.
In a spot exchange transaction, two partners agree to buy or sell one currency for another. This is an irrevocable agreement that must be kept in all cases.
Dual currency investments combine a time deposit with a currency option strategy. This provides more attractive returns compared to money market investments.
Targeted strategies for hedging against exchange rate fluctuations help to increase planning certainty in your company. By combining several options, individual requirements can be precisely met.
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Basic transactions include spot and forward transactions, swap transactions and limit orders. The prerequisites for the conclusion of a spot transaction are an account held at Credit Suisse, relevant foreign currency accounts and the required credit balance.
Dual currency investments combine a time deposit with a currency option strategy. This provides a higher return than standard money market investments. In return, clients face the risk of receiving the repayment at the end of the term in an alternative currency, depending on the development of the underlying foreign currency.
All dual currency investments can be tailored to your needs. We offer both securitized and unsecuritized OTC solutions.
Hedging strategies can help protect your company against daily currency fluctuations and thus increase planning certainty. In order to cover your individual needs in the best possible way, several options can be combined in a targeted way. In addition to an extensive range of basic hedging instruments such as risk reversals or participating forwards, various advanced hedging and outperformance strategies are also available.
In most cases, the objective is to optimize the hedging rate or hedging costs. Based on your risk appetite and risk profile, our specialists willcompile the appropriate hedging strategy for you.
We are always pleased to assist you and look forward to meeting you personally. More than 25 specialists are at your disposal in our foreign exchange centers in Basel, Geneva, Lugano, St. Gallen and Zurich.
