Risk Management

HSBC’s fully integrated worldwide trading and structuring team leverages our strengths as a major market maker and liquidity provider to the foreign exchange and interest rate markets. Provided solutions include full risk management services and flexible hedging solutions to our global corporate client base through different products ranging from vanilla options to highly tailored structured solutions.

Foreign exchange and interest rate risk can arise in a number of different ways and there is a growing range of products available to help companies manage these exposures. The basic principles, however, are straightforward and are outlined within the four-point plan:

• Understand your exposures
• Understand the products
• Develop a strategy
• Implement it

HSBC has a team of specialists available to advise you on developing an appropriate strategy for your business.