Interest rate & inflation hedging
Manage your interest and inflation rate risk with flexible, tailored strategies. The full spectrum of risk management solutions can be tailored to suit your projected short-term cash flows or mitigate longer-term balance sheet drivers eg, earnings, assets and interest rate cover ratio.
Our solutions are drawn from the insights and forecasts of our respected research experts, hedge effectiveness testing and IFRS guidance, as well as transaction and documentation support.
We can structure hedging solutions on:
- Bank bills
- Market rate facilities (MRFs)
- Commercial Paper and Euro Commercial Paper programmes
- Medium-term note programmes
- Other capital markets facilities eg, bonds and private placements
The largest Australian lender1 and Business Bank of the Year2, we are a market maker in AUD, NZD, USD, GBP, EUR and JPY interest rate swaps. We offer competitive pricing on interest rate options, exotic products and cross currency swaps across a full range of major and minor currencies.
Our consistently strong performance has been recognised with the market leading rankings of:
- #1 interest rates desk in 2008 and 20093
- #1 supplier of interest rate swaps in Australia for 2008 and 20094
To learn more about interest rate and inflation hedging that can benefit your business, contact a NAB Corporate Banker.
1 Current Primary Lender, East & Partners Australian SME Banking Markets, October 2009
2 CFO Awards 2009
3 Asia Risk Australia Survey 2009
4 AFMA Report 2008
