// 00FX DESK · EUR/USD Treasury Hedging · Lualdi Advisors

FXDESK

Exposure · Hedge · Decide

Turn a future EUR/USD exposure into a decisive, boardroom-ready hedge.

FX DESK is a EUR/USD treasury-hedging engine for corporate treasury. Enter what you will receive, when, and how certain it is — and the desk returns the instrument, the hedge ratio, the notional, the timing and the maturity, with an alternative structure and a full scenario analysis. Pricing and sizing run on a rigorously-tested proprietary core; the rate outlook is read from the market, not from a house view. Every number is defensible, and the recommendation is decisive — a memo a committee can sign. The engine is the moat, and it stays under the hood.

// 01The Engine

Decisive, and defensible.

Most FX tools hand a treasurer a screen of rates and leave the decision on the table. FX DESK takes the other side: it prices the market on a rigorously-tested, proprietary core and commits to a board-ready recommendation, sized to your policy and risk appetite — an answer you can defend line by line. The engine behind it is the moat, and it stays under the hood.

// CAPABILITY 01

Live reference rates

A daily-updated EUR/USD reference feed, close to live mid, with an official daily fixing as fallback. Every market input can be overwritten with your own dealer marks for the actual tenor before you commit.

EUR/USD · Live Feed
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Dealable forwards

Forward rates are shown both at mid and net of the dealer spread — so the rate you compare is one you can actually deal, not a screen quote. The pricing is internally consistent and arbitrage-free; the mechanics stay under the hood.

Forward · Executable
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Defensible option pricing

Premiums for options and zero-cost collars come from a rigorously-tested pricing core, adjusted for the market's own volatility profile — indicative to within a dealer run, with the protective and financing legs sized for you. The model is proprietary.

Options · Collars
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A decisive recommendation

The desk returns one answer: instrument, hedge ratio, notional, timing and maturity — plus an alternative structure for the committee to weigh. The ratio is a rules-based read of policy, probability, risk appetite and objective: a starting point for judgement, stated plainly.

Instrument · Ratio · Timing
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Market-implied outlook

A probabilistic rate cone read from the market's own pricing of future outcomes — it shows the range of where EUR/USD could land, as decision context. It is explicitly not a directional forecast or a house view on EUR/USD.

Probability Cone · Not a Forecast
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Scenario & line check

A full scenario analysis values the unhedged and hedged positions across moved spot, in your functional currency — and the recommendation is checked against your dealing line, flagging when required capacity exceeds the credit you have.

Scenarios · Credit Capacity
// 02The Memo

One exposure in. A board-ready memo out.

The output is not a dashboard to interpret — it is a written FX Hedging Recommendation a treasury committee can read, challenge and sign. Every figure is computed from the market inputs and the model, and the memo states its own methodology and limits.

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Exposure & Risk Summary

The exposure restated in functional currency, its materiality as a share of revenue, the receipt probability, and the direction of risk left open — the case for hedging, before any instrument is chosen.

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Instrument Selection

Forward, option, collar or layered program, with the mid and executable forward, the option premium as a share of notional, and the zero-cost collar's floor and cap — each priced and compared on the same market inputs.

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Recommended Structure

The primary recommendation as a clean key-value block — instrument, hedge ratio, new notional after any existing hedge, execution timing, maturity, locked outcome and premium — with any tranche schedule and an alternative structure beside it.

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Rate Outlook

A market-implied probability cone for where EUR/USD could land at maturity — read from the market's own pricing and shown as decision context, never as a prediction.

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Scenario Analysis

Unhedged versus the recommended hedge across a grid of moved spot rates, valued in functional currency with the hedged leg blended against the unhedged remainder — the worst case made explicit.

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Committee Recommendation

A plain-language directive — execute this hedge, at this ratio, to this maturity, for these reasons — closed by a methodology-and-limitations note so the committee signs with the assumptions in full view.

"This memo covers transaction FX risk and is decision support — not a dealing or booking system, and not investment advice. Where the case to hedge is not made, the desk says: remain unhedged and monitor."
// 03The Desk Loop

Enter. Price. Decide.

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Enter the exposure

Amount and currency, expected receipt date and probability, your hedge policy, risk appetite and treasury objective — plus any budget rate, existing hedge and dealing line. A worked reference case is pre-filled; override with your own figures.

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Price the market

Live spot in; forwards, options and collars priced on the proprietary core, plus a market-implied rate cone — all computed on the same inputs, all overridable with your own marks.

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Decide & defend

A decisive recommendation with an alternative, a full scenario grid, a dealing-line check and a written committee directive — exported as a board-ready memo, with its methodology and limits stated on the page.

// 04FX DESK — Frequently Asked

Direct answers.

What does FX DESK do?
It turns a future EUR/USD exposure into a decisive, boardroom-ready hedging recommendation. Enter the amount, receipt date, probability, hedge policy, risk appetite and objective, and the engine returns the instrument, hedge ratio, notional, execution timing and maturity, plus an alternative structure and a full scenario analysis — a memo a treasury committee can act on.
How are forwards and options priced?
Forwards are shown both at mid and net of the dealer spread, so the rate you compare is one you can actually deal. Option and collar premiums come from a rigorously-tested pricing core, adjusted for the market's own volatility profile and indicative to within a dealer run. The specific methods are proprietary.
Is the rate outlook a forecast?
No. The rate cone is read from the market's own pricing of future outcomes — it is market-implied, shown as decision context, and is explicitly not a directional forecast or a house view on EUR/USD.
Which instruments does it cover?
Outright forwards, vanilla options (a protective EUR put or call), zero-cost collars that finance the protective leg with a sold strike, and layered or tranched programs that average execution over time. The recommendation also includes a dealing-line check against your available credit capacity.
Is this investment advice?
No. FX DESK covers transaction (cash-flow) FX risk and is decision support for a treasury committee — not a dealing or booking system. It does not address hedge-accounting treatment (IFRS 9 / ASC 815), tax, regulatory capital, or counterparty and settlement risk, and its outputs are not predictions or investment advice.
How does it relate to SIGMA DESK?
FX DESK and SIGMA DESK are the firm's two hedging desks — FX DESK for EUR/USD treasury exposure, SIGMA DESK for commodity price risk. Both apply the same discipline: real market data, named or proprietary methods as the work demands, and a board-ready order at the end.
//FX DESK Access

A future exposure,
and a hedge you can defend.

Live rates · Defensible pricing · Board-ready orders · Decision support, not advice

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