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Manage My Interest Rate and FX Risk

If you’re considering how you can control and reduce your exposure to risk, we can offer you an extensive range of services to help you manage this to an acceptable level for your business.

There are a number of factors to bear in mind when managing your interest rate and foreign exchange risk.

Managing your interest rate exposure

Key areas for businesses to consider include:

• protecting against unexpected interest rate increases or volatility in short term borrowing rates
• managing fixed and floating liabilities
• locking in financing costs ahead of funding
• diversifying exposure away from floating rate exposure

Managing your FX risk

Whether you are an importer, exporter or large multinational, you may want to:

• protect against adverse currency market fluctuations
• manage your balance sheet exposure
• know more about emerging market currencies
• develop a Treasury policy with the assistance of detailed market insight
• understand FX Options and how they might help manage your risk
• manage contingent/uncertain foreign exchange exposures
• understand the FX risks that sit behind M&A and disposal activity
• investigate enhanced yield investment ideas linked to foreign exchange exposures

To support you in managing the risks associated with foreign exchange and interest rate volatility, your Relationship Director can introduce you to a dedicated professional within our Risk Solutions team.

Key products to support your business

We can tailor our extensive range of products and services to support your business needs, including:

Talk to us

Find out more about managing interest rate and FX risks by talking to your Relationship Director.

New to Barclays? Our experienced UK-based team can listen to your business need, offer assistance on-the-spot or put you in touch with the right specialist at Barclays. Call us on

0800 015 4242*

Alternatively we can call you back or you can email us with your query.