FX Special: Scott Bilter – Principal and owner at Atlas Risk Advisory | Episode 91

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Today I am joined on the program by Scott Bilter, the Principal and owner at Atlas Risk Advisory. The reason I got Scott on is because he wrote a good article that caught my eye which was: How Effective is your FX Hedging program? With the economic crisis that we’re in now, I thought it’s a good time to have someone who could tell us more and shed some light.

In this episode:

  • How did Scott get into treasury and what made him choose it as a career?
  • Scott tells more about
  • Difference of corporate treasury side to working on the bank
  • Comparing the corporate treasury side to the advisory work Scott is doing now
  • Was it challenging to make the moves across from the different industries
  • Distinction between cash flow and balance sheet hedging
  • FX and financial market 
  • Previous FX strategies’ connections with the coronavirus and the volatility 
  • How is resourcing relevant to being effective in FX risk management
  • What does “accounting can be the tie wagging the dog” mean
  • Business partnering being important for FX risk management
  • How important are simultaneous budgeted FX or the planned FX rights
  • What has Scott seen from his clients recently
  • FX Tips for the listeners
  • Advice for listeners around networking and how Scott approached it in his career
  • What piece of advice Scott wish he’d been told
  • What are the things Scott tends to focus on when hiring

Links
Scott Bilter LinkedIn
How Effective is your FX Hedging program

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