The sheer scale of currency fluctuation since the start of 2022 is striking. According to Kyriba’s latest currency impact report, the 1,200 publicly traded North American and European companies surveyed for the report experienced cumulative currency impacts of almost $170 billion last year, of which more than $131 billion was negative.
Comparing these figures to the 2021 totals of $67 billion and $23 billion respectively only tells part of the story. During the past 12 months, sterling reached its lowest level against the dollar since 1985, and the yen was worth less than at any time since 1998.
Many finance professionals in large corporates had not even started their careers a quarter of a century ago and therefore have no first-hand knowledge of similar market conditions.
One of the ways they have compensated is to retrench and hope for the best on the spot market, which is not ideal, as...
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