Proactive & Reactive
With two decades of experience, Medlock & Thames helps UK importers and exporters navigate volatile currency markets with strategies grounded in the realities of their business. From innovative hedging programmes to carefully placed market orders, we work alongside boards and finance teams to construct purchasing mandates, formalise currency policy, and ultimately protect the margin earned in the underlying trade.
Managing Currency in Cross-Border Trade – A treasury guide for UK importers and exporters
A 5% adverse move on an unhedged exposure can erase 40% of a 12% gross margin. Our treasury guide sets out the frameworks, instruments and disciplines we have seen well-run cross-border businesses adopt to prevent that — written in plain language for boards and finance teams, not for traders.
Inside:
- The three types of currency risk every cross-border business is running, whether or not it has named them
- How to set a proportionate FX policy — what to hedge, how much, over what horizon, with which instruments
- Five instruments compared: spot, forward, window forward, market order and vanilla option
- Static, layered or selective — choosing a strategy that fits the shape of the business
- Three worked case studies, including a Midlands homeware importer that defended £145,000 of margin with a single forward contract, and a Yorkshire manufacturer that cut budget variance by more than 70% in a year
- A ten-point treasury checklist for the year ahead
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