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Notes from the desk

Working notes on FX risk, hedge operations and what a treasury book really costs to run by hand. Written for treasury teams and the advisers who sit beside them.

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Strategy

Layered FX hedging, explained

Layering means hedging an exposure in several smaller pieces over time instead of one. It is one of the few treasury techniques with a genuinely settled answer about what it does, and the answer is not the one most people expect.

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EXPECTED RATE IMPROVEMENT
0.00%

What layering is worth on the average rate. The whole benefit is in the spread of outcomes, not the middle of it.

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Treasury

The hidden cost of a manual FX desk

Ask most treasury teams what their FX operation costs, and they will point to the spread on their last few trades. That is the number they can see. It is also the smallest part of the bill.

COST OF ONE UNBENCHMARKED QUOTE
10.6 bps
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Written by the HedgePoint team from what we see across client books: how quotes get priced, where confirmations break, and what a month-end actually costs. Every article argues from a number we can show you.

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