Laura Oliva, Ceo of Ekuota, has received one of the “Women in Finance – 2019 Italy Awards”, in the FinTech category. The prize was attributed by the British Ambassador to…
Don’t say we didn’t tell you!
Ekuota predicited it. But let’s go in order. The purchase decisions of the raw materials are associated with a prospective analysis of their quotations on the international markets. The techniques used…
Exports to China: the importance of managing forex prices
Fixing prices in Yuan is an important challenge for a firm willing to offer its products in the Chinese market. Let us consider a wine producer: how to face the…
FINANCING OF € 700.000 FOR GROWTH
Ekuota has received financing of €7 00,000 as part of a programme to support innovative companies which use high-level technology. Ekuota has in fact been admitted to the Smart&Start Italia…
How to avoid currency losses
Currencies are prices. Prices determined by the international financial markets as is the case for other securities: shares, bonds, etc. As with any other financial decisions, before buying or selling,…
Protection against the pitfalls of financial markets
Financial markets can be dangerous, full of threats to businesses that come in the form of lower revenues in foreign currencies as well as an increased cost of commodities. Some…
A WINNING STRATEGY FOR FOREIGN PURCHASES
How to help companies to realize the full potential of foreign purchases. For a long time, this issue has been regarded as an easy shortcut or as a sort of…
Brexit, Trump & economic future scenario
World growth remains low. The latest estimate from the International Monetary Fund shows growth for 2016 of 3.1%, less than was estimated in April. The reasons for the decrease of growth…
How to fix foreign exchange prices in two steps
Why are you losing foreign customers? It is not your fault or your employees’ if financial management has become very chaotic. Why is it that the foreign exchange transactions are closed with…
What’s the impact of Brexit for doing businesses with UK?
The main consequence of Brexit concerns the pound. According to a well-known financial analyst, the pound could fall up to 20%. To date (early July 2016), the Pound lost 10,2% versus…
Industrial Commodities: the End of the Collapse?
Prices of many industrial commodities are at multi-year lows. In the eKuota infographic below, we see what happened to prices during 2015. Steel decreased by 56%, nickel lost 41%, palladium 30%. No…
Understanding Risk Probabilistic Scenarios for Companies
Knowing the likelihood of loss or gain is essential for any company, especially when exposed to financial risks. Knowing in advance the chances of getting a positive financial margin from payments in foreign…
Yuan: the effects on import & export
Last August, the Chinese currency (Renminbi or Yuan), experienced a major devaluation. The Central Bank of China removed the limits to currency price fluctuations and cut interest rates. A big…
Will Commodities Prices fall again?
A tsunami struck the commodities market. An impact having direct consequences for many companies. What’s going on? The year 2015 is a good year for purchases of industrial raw materials….
Weak Euro: are you ready?
In Today’s financial environment money knows no boundary. Digital currencies such as “bitcoin” have been accepted by large institutional investors and emerging currencies as the Yuan is replacing the US Dollar…
Is the Russia’ crisis an opportunity?
The changes in the world economy have dramatic implications for business. Recent Russia’s sharp slowdown and the ruble depreciation has led the German automaker Volkswagen to announce a downsize of…
Negative interest rates: borrowers’ paradise
The interest rate with a maturity of one month for Euro zone (called 1Month Euribor) has officially dropped below zero for the first time on January 19, 2015. It’s a…
Understanding exchange rate
Doing business throughout the world is not the same from one country to another. Trading in different languages, culture and time zone complicates the activities. One of the key factors of global business is the…
Forecasts & FX
We live in a world that is shaped by forecasts. In every field of human activity forecasts target the programme in the future. Weather forecast, traffic forecasts, predictions of life…
Fixed or Floating rate loan? – Part Two
In the previous issue, we saw the consequences of an interest rate risk for a company. Now let’s see how to measure and manage risk. We started from the budget of…
Shanghai Free trade Zone
China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone – SPFTZ (simplified Chinese 中国（上海）自由贸易试验区) is a free trade zone backed by Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang, officially approved on August 17th 2013, and…
Floating or fixed rate loan? – First part
A company, by definition, takes risks. Business risk, linked to its specific activity, related to commercial or industrial operations, depending on the sector in which it operates. This is not…
Will banks help Italian companies abroad?
The survey, designed and developed by eKuota (the full text of the survey is located here), is an analysis of the Italian economic and business world who does not give…
Where is better for selling and for investing?
eKuota asked to italian companies which are the more attractive geographical areas
What is a SWAP for a loan?
The interest rate swap – also called IRS – is a contract with a financial broker in order to hedge changes in interest rates. A swap allows the person who…
The best book of 2013
What was the best book you read in 2013? This is the question I asked the eKuota team. The answers are very different and reflect the different personalities involved. Let’s…
HEAVY EURO!
The currency war is a serious issue (read more here). Over the last year the currency world is drastically changed and it’s very dangerous if you don’t stay on the right…
South Africa, what’s next
South Africa, pver the past decade the gross domestic product has doubled.
