Risk Management and Hedging Strategy in Troubled Times: Practical Solutions to Achieve Efficiency and Transparency

PANEL DISCUSSION:

• Designed for a small group of attendees, this session will provide a space for best practice sharing, discussions, group activities and benchmarking, with the support of real-life examples.
• How to develop a robust and pragmatic hedging programme when you have physical commodity price exposure
• Hedging mechanisms: What you need to consider when developing your programme
• How do you keeping track of movements and adjust when purchases are delayed or brought forward, or quantities don’t match forecasts?
• Impact on PnL and need to re-hedge – Identifying the cost to the business of changes in physical positions
• Managing an internal hedge desk: Benefits and complexities
• What does a centralised hedge desk set-up look like in practice?
• Impact on operational processes and negotiation weight
• Streamlining exposures and taking advantages from natural offsets

SPEAKERS:

• Harry Knott, Chief Business Architect, QUOR
• Fieras Freijeh, Senior Sales Director, Quor
• Stuart Weston, Senior CTRM Solutions Consultant, Quor