Kanika Neema

• Managing relationships with large corporate clients, providing tailored solutions for FX risk management and derivatives-based hedging strategies.
• Handling trade and capital flows for the Bank’s top 20 clients, ensuring seamless financial operations and risk mitigation.
• Advising clients on FX exposures, capitalizing on market opportunities to propose structured hedging solutions aligned with their risk management objectives.
• Negotiating and closing FX, rates and derivative transactions, ensuring competitive pricing and effective risk mitigation for both the client and the bank.
• Facilitating External Commercial Borrowings hedging strategies and Foreign Currency Term Loan solutions, ensuring optimal management of cross-border risks.
• Collaboration with trading desks, legal, risk, and compliance teams to ensure seamless execution of trades, adhering to regulatory standards and internal policies.
• Monitoring market trends and provided clients with timely insights into currency and interest rate movements, recommending adjustments to hedging strategies when necessary.

• Responsible for managing FX portfolio of over 100 corporate clients of Mumbai Region.
• Developing and presenting strategic pitch of customized OTC products to the client to hedge FX and Interest Rate Exposure.
• Pricing and structuring of derivatives products to ensure maximum ROA while taking care of customer’s requirement and risk management policy.
• Handling client’s foreign currency funds requirements.
• Enhancing new client’s connections and increase wallet share of existing clients.
• Dynamic Scoping of new clients along with coverage team to ensure maximum market penetration.
• End to end co-ordination with coverage and credit team for sanctioning and set – up of hedging limits.
• Managing Pre - Deal and Post - Deal Documentation.
• Handling ISDA/CSA negotiations and related document execution.
• Keeping track of global market developments and provide insights related to currency market to the clients regularly.
• Ensuring strict compliance with RBI regulations and internal policies.

Key Achievements -

• Expertise in handling the Large Corporate Clients and develop the dealing and operational capability to handle such marquee clients in efficient manner.
• Initiated various product launches such as Tie-ups for Foreign Funding, Rupee Interest Rate Hedging.
• Responsible for end to end process set – up for providing hedging solutions to AIFs.