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We harness our expertise to mitigate your business risks and balance sheet risks over short-term and medium-term horizons. Just the boost your business needs to grow.

We are a leading risk management solution provider for trade and balance sheet exposure. As a dominant hedging solutions provider, we help businesses actively manage FX fluctuations on their exposures and transform volatilities into opportunities in line with their risk appetite. Being a top-tier liquidity provider, we also offer foreign exchange services across multiple currencies and leverage our global tie-ups to achieve faster turnaround time on remittances. Through our dedicated team of foreign exchange specialists, we can provide a comprehensive range of services for your business.

Products

A corporate and institutional hedging solutions provider with cutting-edge, customized derivative products.
Currency and interest rate swap on FCY exposures like ECBs and Loans.
Vanilla and cost reduction option structure on trade exposures of corporates.
FX forward facilities for hedging, for current and capital account transactions.
FX conversion for value date Cash (same day), Tom (next working day) and Spot (2 working days).

Coverage

Dedicated FX coverage desk for corporate and institutional clients in the dealing room with senior resources.
FX coverage desk available before and after market hours, customized to cater to your specific needs.
Regular updates and forecasts from our Economics and Research team.
Available over Bloomberg and Reuters apart from over the counter phone calls.

Competitive Pricing

One of the most competitive price providers for large value deals on account of offsetting flows from local and multinational and institutional clients.
Our FX trading desk is one of the largest onshore desks.
Transparent and pre-agreed FX and hedge spreads.
Different execution styles for deal-specific requirements.

FX Live - Online FX Platform

Enables rate booking for Cash (same day), Tom (next working day) and Spot (2 working days) and Forward maturities.
Access to economic research reports and daily currency report.
Upload underlying documents for forward contracts with instant deal ticket printout.
Online forward confirmations.

Other Capabilities

Multi-currency capability with settlements in all major pairs.
Same day settlement in INR with extended cut-off timing.

Disclaimer

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What is a LIBOR rate?

LIBOR, the acronym for London Interbank Offer Rate, is an un-secured short-term borrowing rate determined by selected AA rated banks (also known as Contributor Banks). It is published for 5 currencies; British pound (GBP), Euro (EUR), US dollar (USD), Swiss franc (CHF) and Japanese yen (JPY) and for 7 different maturities, namely, overnight, 1 week, 1 month, 2 months, 3 months, 6 months and 12 months. It is published each London business day and is administered by ICE Benchmark Administration (IBA). A brief summary of the methodology followed by IBA for publication of LIBOR is provided below.

Level 1 (Transaction Based) - Where a Contributor Bank has sufficient eligible transactions, LIBOR is calculated as a volume weighted average price (“VWAP”) of such eligible transactions, with a higher weighting for transactions booked closer to 11:00 AM London time. Eligibility criteria for transactions are specified by IBA.

Level 2 (Transaction Derived) - Where a Contributor Bank has insufficient eligible transactions to make a Level 1 submission, it will seek to make a submission based on transaction-derived data, including time-weighted historical eligible transactions adjusted for market movements and linear interpolation. Eligibility criteria for transaction derived data are specified by IBA.

Level 3 (Expert Judgement) - Where a Contributor Bank has insufficient eligible transactions or transaction-derived data to make a Level 1 or a Level 2 submission, it will submit the rate at which it could fund itself at 11:00 AM London time with reference to the unsecured, wholesale funding market. Each Contributor Bank agrees its defined Level 3 submission methodology with IBA, basing its rate on transactional data, related market instruments, broker quotes and other market observations. Level 1 and Level 2 submissions are mathematically based on transaction data and the methodology is common to all contributing banks. There is no discretion for contributors.