Plain FX Forward

Plain FX Forward

Ensure predictability during adverse
movements in the FX market

In a plain FX forward, the client has the obligation to sell one currency and buy another currency on a certain future date at a pre-agreed rate.


Features of Plain FX forward

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Obligation of the client to deliver the agreed amount in the respective currency at maturity.

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Complete protection against adverse market movements.

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The client does not have the opportunity to take advantage of favorable market movements



Example: The client execute a plain FX forward, with the obligation to sell EUR 1,000,000 and buy USD 1,190,000 on 30.11.2017 (maturity). At maturity, the transaction is performed at the pre-agreed rate - 1.1900.

Target market of the product

The plain FX forward is a financial instrument, which the Bank manufactures and distributes as a product. The table below sets out the criteria for determining for which client profile the product is compatible with or not.

 

Positive

Negative

Type of clients

all types of clients: retail, professional and eligible counterparties

 

Clients’ knowledge and experience

- the movement and the possible expectations regarding the hedged reference values;

- lost profits or realized losses related to a negative change in reference values;

- hedging cash flows by entering a FX forward in relation to future receipts or payments on liabilities;

- the process of permanent collateral maintenance

does not meet the indicated knowledge and experience requirements

Clients’ financial situation with a focus on the ability to bear losses

ability to bear a negative result due to FX rate change within the term of the instrument and its maturity

 

Clients’ risk tolerance and compatibility of the risk

low-risk profile, due to the ultimate objective to fix the FX rate to the expected receipts/payments

inclined to bear the risks of negative deviations of the reference values

Clients’ objectives and needs

hedging adverse FX rate fluctuations or speculating

 



Contact dealers:

Treasury Sales Department

 

Deyan Mankovski – Head of the Treasury Sales Department – 02 80 10 862

Kalina Mays – Head of FX Unit, Treasury Sales Department – 02 97 66 233

Milena Lukanova – Senior Dealer, Treasury Sales Department – 02 97 66 232

Oktay Hasanov – Senior Dealer, Treasury Sales Department – 02 97 66 236

Hristo Arnaudov – Dealer, Treasury Sales Department – 02 93 91 364

Velichko Dimov – Dealer, Treasury Sales Department – 02 93 91 126

Kalina Yankova - Dealer, Treasury Sales Department – 02 93 91 133

Hristo Sugarev – Head of Asset Management Unit, Treasury Sales Department – 02 93 91 133

Ivelin Ivanov – Senior Dealer, Treasury Sales Department – 02 93 91 365

Martin Georgiev – Dealer, Treasury Sales Department – 02 97 66 234

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