For a long time, we have been concerned by the common practice in Over the Counter (“OTC”) derivative markets of end users conducting all their hedging activity with a small group of their “relationship” banks.

Corporate finance theory has long established that companies should maximise their Enterprise Value no matter who the shareholders are.

Banks have traditionally provided funding and hedging acting as principals. The financial crisis has critically reduced banks’ appetite for risk, thus often reducing their role in several traditional investment banking functions to that of ‘matched brokers’.

Treasury Performance Measurement

Each transaction executed by TradeRisks shows the execution costs or the market value from mid-market of the transaction at the execution time. The execution cost is then translated into a spread over the mid rates. This is essential in order to measure treasury performance and evaluate the overall benefit of the transactions.

When measuring the execution cost of any financial transaction (or group of transactions), this is simply the market value of the new financial instrument, minus the market value of the replaced financial instrument, if any, adjusted for any cash amounts received or paid.

Financial transactions include loan facilities, bonds, and derivatives (whether embedded or standalone) and the market value is the standard net present value of projected future cashflows (using market implied rates and volatilities), with the discounting curve being, in the case of derivatives, the mid-market swap curve, and in the case of loans or bonds, the cost of new debt expressed as a margin over mid-market swaps.

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