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Derivatives

At Crown Agents Bank, we recognise that institutions manage currency risk for many different reasons. Whether your business generates predictable currency flows or is exposed to one-off transactions we can advise on how to implement the appropriate protections that can help you plan for the future with fewer surprises. We provide tools that are designed to meet your practical trading needs with competitive pricing and execution by our team with a long history in trading both specialist and emerging-market currencies.

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Manage FX risk with certainty

Mitigating risk with confidence

We take the time to understand the timing, size and sensitivities of our clients’ currency positions with treasury and finance teams. This allows us to tailor hedging structures that reflect commercial realities – this may include locking in a future rate, averaging volatility over a period of time or exposures related to specific projects or trade cycles. We aim to provide greater certainty for clients while avoiding unnecessary complexity.

Benefits of our market-leading Derivatives FX platform

Rate protection

Helps protect budgets and forecasts from unexpected currency movements.

Forward planning

Enables organisations to fix rates in advance of future cashflows.

Market insight

Access to advice from market specialists who understand the nuances of both liquid and less-accessible currencies.

Aligned structures

Hedging products that reflect your business’s operational currency flow rather than standardised products.

Improved certainty

Helps reduce the risk of short-term volatility impacting business decisions.

Integrated execution

Derivatives solutions that can work seamlessly with our wider FX and payments services for an end-to-end process.

Hard to source currencies, seamlessly delivered

Access 120+ currencies across 800+ currency pairs

Our currency capabilities span Africa, LATAM, the Caribbean, Asia Pacific and the Middle East, as well as G10 countries. A full list can be found below.

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Solutions

Our expertise

At Crown Agents Bank, we specialise in delivering practical, reliable, and innovative solutions that help our clients move money securely across some of the world’s most complex and hard-to-reach markets. Our services are designed to meet the needs of governments, financial institutions, international development organisations, and businesses operating in hard-to-reach and emerging economies.

Structured Solutions

Crown Agents Bank works closely with clients on project finance, liquidity, bespoke funding to support their strategic goals, and offers tailored strategies for risk management, capital optimisation, market insight, and new opportunities.

Guaranteed Deposits

Our deposits service provides secure, flexible solutions for managing surplus funds and offers a range of competitive deposit products, enabling organisations to optimise returns while keeping capital readily accessible.

Trade Finance

Our expertise in emerging markets ensures robust risk management and seamless execution, empowering clients to trade confidently, expand globally, and help organisations manage cross-border transactions and mitigate risk.

FX

Our FX service allows organisations to leverage our robust network and deep market expertise, exchange currencies swiftly and securely across a wide range of markets, with competitive rates and seamless global transactions.

Payments

Our payments service enables fast, secure cross-border transfers, even in emerging markets, with timely, reliable settlement for all payment needs. We deliver transparent, compliant, and efficient solutions to support your organisation’s global goals.

Sectors

Customer segments

Banks

Trusted expertise, robust infrastructure and strong regulation to simplify cross-border and local operations, access hard-to-trade currencies, and manage liquidity confidently.

Non-Bank Financial Institutions

Access reliable currencies and cross-border payment corridors with ease, security and scalability, empowering confident transactions in evolving markets.

Humanitarian & Development Organisations

Whether you are moving large volumes to local banks or making multiple smaller transactions to get funding to projects on the ground, we have experience and expertise to make it easy.

Corporates

Operate across diverse and challenging markets where traditional banks face difficulties, with reliable, fast and cost-effective solutions for cross-border payments, FX and trade finance.

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