Benoit Duhil de Benaze on how a rise in cross-border M&A drives the need for deal-contingent hedging
Summary
Euromoney interviewed Benoit Duhil de Benaze on the surge in deal-contingent hedging due to the recent M&A boom, aimed at mitigating interest rate, currency, and commodity risks.
His white paper, Deal-contingent Hedging, explains how deal-contingent hedging mitigates FX risk between the signing and closing of a cross-border M&A transaction. The interview with Euromoney explored drivers beyond interest rates that are resulting in an increased interest in deal-contingent hedging, such as currencies trading at historic levels, an inverted yield curve, and the volatility in commodity pricing.
Benoit Duhil de Benaze in EuroMoney“Some currencies are trading at attractive historical levels and there are markets trading at lower multiples — such as the UK, which has seen increased private market activity.”
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