Optimizing and protecting your financial institution’s balance sheet

Apply a holistic approach to interest rate risk

Chatham’s risk management consultants and hedge accounting experts can educate your institution on using derivatives to manage risk, advise on which derivatives products to use, and support your institution on implementing and executing a strategy. We apply a powerful framework that helps your team achieve its desired interest rate risk management objectives regardless of size, sophistication, or complexity.

Inform and prepare

Chatham will partner with your team to understand your current interest rate risk position, layer in your institution’s policy, and help implement your institution’s interest rate
risk view.

Your team will get the necessary information to evaluate each decision, and we will work alongside you to prepare your hedging strategy and transactions.

Derivatives hedge accounting advisory

Chatham’s hedge accounting experts manage all aspects of accounting for each hedge transaction, including structuring accounting-friendly hedging relationships, writing hedge designation memos, preparing monthly journal entries, reviewing disclosures, and performing effectiveness testing when required.

Strategy development and execution

Chatham will help develop strategies that satisfy your institution’s risk policies and asset-liability management objectives. We work on your behalf to deliver hedging solutions through our strong capital markets presence, analytical models, accounting expertise, and valuation platform.

Integrated service, advisory, and technology

Chatham consultants are available to help with your institution’s risk management challenges. Clients have 24/7 online access to Chatham’s leading technology for hedge portfolio information, including updated valuations, market pricing, payment and collateral information, and all transaction-related accounting documents.

Keeping your institution informed and ready

Through our expertise and influence in the market, Chatham will keep your institution informed of new and upcoming market changes.

Our regulatory experts advise on upcoming derivative regulatory changes so that your institution can remain compliant with an ever-changing regulatory landscape.

An extension of your finance team

Chatham Financial is the largest, independent financial risk management advisory and technology firm providing financial institutions strategic and tactical risk management advice, hedge accounting, and execution services for derivatives and capital market transactions.