Foreign Exchange
Mitigate the risks of currency volatility
Cross-border transactions expose your business to the risk of fluctuating currencies and foreign exchange regulations. Our range of risk management and hedging solutions protect you from currency risks.
SOME OF THE BENEFITS
Offshore presence
Expert insights
Transaction safety
African presence
Global reach
As an African bank with global reach, we help clients deal effectively and efficiently across the continent’s foreign currency and money markets. We currently perform over 1.6 million trades per year, with a combined USD1.7 trillion overall turnover.
Access deeper liquidity pools
With an equally strong presence in offshore markets, we can actively engage large institutional investors and corporate accounts. Our dual on-and off-shore positioning as well as our buy- and sell-side ability allows us to access deeper liquidity pools consistently pricing in volume in all market conditions.
Standard Bank’s range of forex services include:
- Currency management: Professional teams provide innovative and superior currency management insight, guidance and solutions.
- Bespoke products: Hedging and investor products, are available.
- Local presence: Developed local balance sheets across Africa, support you as you access the continent’s more fragile currency markets.
- Innovative offerings: Access new innovations such as electronic trading platforms and Africa specific market research.
- Innovation and experience: Our FX teams have the skills to support a diversified international and domestic client base trading in all G10 as well as 40 African currencies.
- Multiple currencies: We trade in most other emerging market currencies, including the Renminbi (RMB – the official currency of the People’s Republic of China).
- Large volumes: With 22 dealing rooms across the globe staffed by local teams with specialist market knowledge, we manage over 30% of FX volumes on the African continent and we are the leading market maker in South Africa.
- Economic research: We keep clients up to date with developments and best practice, so you can manage risk and maximise yield across all FX transactions.
For quick and easy forex try our electronic channel:
- eMarketTrader is Standard Bank's advanced cross-asset electronic trading platform bringing together market intelligence & research, real-time pricing, trade execution and post-trade services through a single web-based platform.
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EFOREX CHANNEL
Global reach
As an African bank with global reach, we help clients deal effectively and efficiently across the continent’s foreign currency and money markets. We currently perform over 1.6 million trades per year, with a combined USD1.7 trillion overall turnover.
Access deeper liquidity pools
With an equally strong presence in offshore markets, we can actively engage large institutional investors and corporate accounts. Our dual on-and off-shore positioning as well as our buy- and sell-side ability allows us to access deeper liquidity pools consistently pricing in volume in all market conditions.
Standard Bank’s range of forex services include:
- Currency management: Professional teams provide innovative and superior currency management insight, guidance and solutions.
- Bespoke products: Hedging and investor products, are available.
- Local presence: Developed local balance sheets across Africa, support you as you access the continent’s more fragile currency markets.
- Innovative offerings: Access new innovations such as electronic trading platforms and Africa specific market research.
- Innovation and experience: Our FX teams have the skills to support a diversified international and domestic client base trading in all G10 as well as 40 African currencies.
- Multiple currencies: We trade in most other emerging market currencies, including the Renminbi (RMB – the official currency of the People’s Republic of China).
- Large volumes: With 22 dealing rooms across the globe staffed by local teams with specialist market knowledge, we manage over 30% of FX volumes on the African continent and we are the leading market maker in South Africa.
- Economic research: We keep clients up to date with developments and best practice, so you can manage risk and maximise yield across all FX transactions.
For quick and easy forex try our electronic channel:
- eMarketTrader is Standard Bank's advanced cross-asset electronic trading platform bringing together market intelligence & research, real-time pricing, trade execution and post-trade services through a single web-based platform.