Corporations

Chatham delivers a suite of risk management and hedge accounting solutions to enable companies to proactively manage their Fx, interest rate and commodity risks.

Proven Expertise
Founded in 1991, Chatham currently serves over 1,000 market-leading companies delivering market expertise, deep derivatives know-how, and an in-depth understanding of the complex regulatory environment – providing companies with the guidance they need to manage their risk exposure.

Robust Process
Our time-tested systems and processes- from negotiating to hedge accounting to reporting – help companies understand how to identify, execute, account and report their risk effectively and efficiently.

Market-Tested Technology
Through our work on tens of thousands of complex financial transactions we’ve built software tools that give our clients the accuracy, timeliness, and information security they demand. We’ve coupled this with a state-of-the-art user experience to streamline the management of day-to-day risk, and successfully handle complex risk management issues.

Services Offered

Interest Rate Hedging
Chatham helps clients determine and execute the right interest rate hedging strategy and tools. Whether it’s with interest rate swaps, caps, collars, treasury locks, or a wide range of other risk management solutions, we partner with our clients to address a wide range of interest rate risks.   Learn More

Foreign Currency Hedging
Chatham helps clients determine and execute the right currency hedging strategy and tools. Whether with foreign currency forward contracts, options, collars, cross currency swaps, or a wide range of other risk management solutions, we partner with our clients to address a wide range of currency risks.   Learn More

Commodity Hedging
Chatham is the world’s largest independent provider of financial risk and derivatives advisory services. Whether a company’s risks are related to fuel, metals, agriculture or other, Chatham’s derivative expertise and analytical tools uniquely position us to be a valuable member of our clients teams.   Learn More

Hedge Accounting Services
Chatham serves hundreds of companies worldwide achieve their hedge accounting objectives. With years of experience and deep expertise our dedicated team of accounting professionals consult on and account for thousands of hedging relationships for derivatives, bringing peace of mind to our clients and their auditors.   Learn More

Hedge Accounting SaaS Solution
Chatham’s multi-tenant SaaS technology incorporates proven hedge accounting expertise with a best-in-class user experience providing the transparency and understanding companies need to accurately comply with the complex hedge accounting rules, avoid common pitfalls, and withstand auditor’s toughest scrutiny.

Debt and Derivative Valuations
Over 1000 clients with operations around the globe rely on Chatham to provide accurate and independent valuation services for their debt and derivative holdings. Every night we value more than 20,000 trades representing dozens of different indices and multiple currencies.   Learn More

Collateral and Hedge Portfolio Management
View collateral terms across all counterparties including exposure, thresholds, independent amounts, rounding and posted collateral. Also access all your hedging transaction details, valuations, hedge accounting and documentation in one location.   Learn More

Debt Management
Whether providing our clients a clear view of their debt profile from individual loan details and valuations to portfolio level reporting and analytics, FMS, Chatham’s debt management system enables clients to access their debt and derivative documentation through one user-friendly interface.   Learn More

“We consider Chatham an integral member of our corporate finance team and have been very pleased with the services they provide.”

— Keith Giger, Vice President of Finance,
HCA – Hospital Corporation of America

Case Studies

Tracking & Reporting for Hedges Case Study
Learn how Chatham Financial partnered with a global musical instruments firm, with interest rate & FX risks, to improve, streamline and simplify their accounting, tracking and reporting for their hedge portfolio. Learn More

Interest Expense & Currency Risk Case Study
Learn how Chatham Financial helped a software firm with contracts in multiple currencies, a complicated legal structure and unique debt structures understand its interest expense and foreign currency risk, and create a hedging strategy to help isolate them from that risk.
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Strategy & Accounting Case Study
Learn how Chatham Financial helped a global packaging and manufacturing company with over $7 billion in revenues and a complex capital structure understand the earnings impact of the proposed hedging strategy, as well as the ensuing accounting treatment. Learn More