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Save FX rate for a future date with the freedom to benefit from the market as well
Product features
A currency option is a derivative financial instrument. The option gives you the right, but not the obligation to buy or sell a given asset (currency) under pre-agreed terms in the currency option purchase order. For this right, you pay a premium to DSK Bank in advance.
When you buy the option, you have the right to buy or sell a certain amount in a given currency:
- at any time until maturity, if the option is American-style
- on the maturity date itself, if it is of the European type
You can also sell the option back to DSK Bank.
To be a seller of the option, you must have an approved sub-limit for investment services or provide cash collateral.
A barrier can also be incorporated into a currency option. With barrier options, the contract is activated or deactivated depending on whether the incorporated barrier has been reached.
FX Option Parameters:
- Maturity date
- Premium
- Exercise price
- Denomination
- Underlying asset (currency pair, reference currency pairs listed below)
- Call option right to buy currency, Put option (put option) right to sell currency
- Barrier FX options allow achieving a more optimal premium and building a strategy according to exchange rate expectations
- Barrier FX options are reached or hit when the relevant level is reached at any point until the option matures
Usually FX option transactions are concluded for a period of up to 1 year
Reference currency pairs can be
EUR/USD, EUR/GBP, EUR/HUF, EUR/JPY, EUR/CHF, USD/JPY, USD/CHF
Achieving complete elimination of FX risk and predictability of payments
On the maturity date for European type and upon expiration of the term for American type options, the client is not obliged to buy or sell currency, according to the terms of the submitted order for FX option to the FX options trading agreement.
Target market of the product
The FX Option 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 | - Regarding the FX markets, functioning and factors affecting movements - The movement and potential expectations on the hedged FX pairs - The product FX option - rights, obligations, parameters affecting the value of the currency option - Hedging the currency exposure by entering FX Option - The possible maturity scenarios of the currency option | Does not meet the indicated knowledge and experience requirements |
| Clients’ financial situation with a focus on the ability to bear losses | To fix a maximum amount of negative result when buying a currency option | - |
| Clients’ risk tolerance and compatibility of the risk | If the objective is hedging, the client's risk appetite will not be taken into account. In other cases, the client's risk appetite should be high (risk category 7 of 10) | Inclined to bear the risks of negative deviations of the respective FX pair in case the client's objective is to hedge. In cases the objective is speculation - when it is not inclined to bear the risks of negative movements of FX pairs |
| Clients’ objectives and needs | To hedge or to provide liquidity | - |
Contact dealers:
Deyan Mankovski – Head of the Treasury Sales Department– 02 80 10 862
Kalina Mays – Head of FX Department, Treasury Sales Department – 02 97 66 233
Milena Lukanova – Senior Dealer, Treasury Sales Department – 02 97 66 232
Hristo Arnaudov – Dealer, Treasury Sales Department – 02 93 91 364
Velichko Dimov – Dealer, Treasury Sales Directorate Department – 02 93 91 126
Stoyan Georgiev – Senior Dealer, Treasury Sales Department – 02 93 91 130
Hristo Sugarev – Dealer, 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
