The current trading environment poses extraordinary challenges to corporates’ senior management from a multitude of angles: recessionary pressure on the operational business as well as high market volatility leading to increased uncertainty for the cost structure (energy, raw materials, transportation), for future investment decisions and supply with liquidity.



CHECK YOUR COMPANY'S FINANCIAL RESILIENCE – NOW!

Maravon has developed a unique Financial Resilience Analysis Package (FRAP) whereby, depending on the complexity of the business, CFOs and Treasurers will obtain a comprehensive risk analysis of their business within 3 – 6 weeks. It defines the so-called “time to problems”, shows how to prevent it from deteriorating and establishes a roadmap to achieve a sustainable risk management.



INTERLINK CAPITAL AND RISK MANAGEMENT

Subsequently, or as a separate building block, Maravon offers a Capital and Risk Management Suite (CARISMA). Depending on the actual requirements, we will advise corporates on optimal equity strategies, leverage, liability structures (instruments, tenors, currency mix, fix/float mix, etc.), dividend policies as well as transactional and balance sheet hedging strategies.



SAVE COST WITH 'HEDGE BEST'

Hedge Best is Maravon’s solution for Treasurers who intend to challenge their bankers: Hedge Best is a methodology that reveals direct (e.g. premiums and fees) and indirect (e.g. unfairly set strikes and barriers) cost components in hedging instruments and exposes those bankers who make hedge recommendations irrespective of the knowledge of the company’s exact risk exposure. Hedge Best defines the metric ‘hedge performance’ which evaluates the adequacy of hedge solutions in relation to the price for risk reduction. Hedge Best ranks the offered hedging alternatives according to the hedge performance and displays the relatively best solution both numerically and visually. Maravon either implements and trains on Hedge Best in conjunction with the offered ‘Hedge Performance Analyser’-web-service or supports the Treasury department on the occasion of hedging decisions.



CREATE TANGIBLE VALUE WITH SUPPLY CHAIN AND VENDOR FINANCE

Supply chain and vendor finance programmes are able to significantly reduce buyers’ and suppliers’ working capital requirements, hence improve financial ratios such as Return on Net Assets (RONA) or Return on Capital (ROC). However, this result cannot be achieved with all programmes, offered by banks and other independent providers. Maravon supports Treasurers in selecting adequate supply chain and vendor finance programmes and helps align Treasury management processes efficiently toward the selected solution.



MANAGE YOUR BANKING PARTNERS

Managing your banking relationships is one crucial building block of successful financial (risk) management. The banking environment changes rapidly and so do the markets. Given our intimate knowledge of both financial institutions and corporations, Maravon can assist you in benchmarking your bank group vis-à-vis your actual requirements, help you to renegotiate financial arrangements, if required, or conduct beauty-parades for you. We would be happy to put our expertise and independence at your disposal.



For more details, please contact advisory@maravon.com.