International Financial Management Abridged 10 Edition: by Jeff Madura

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International Financial Management

Abridged 10th Edition


by Jeff Madura

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18
Long-Term Financing

Chapter Objectives
This chapter will:

A. Explain how exchange rate movements affect the cost of long-term


financing in foreign currencies

B. Explain how to reduce the exchange rate risk associated with debt
financing in foreign currencies

C. Explain the exposure and hedging of interest rate risk due to debt
financing

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Long-Term Financing Decision

1. Sources of Equity
a. Domestic equity offering
b. Global equity offering
c. Private placement of equity in home country
d. Private placement of equity in foreign country
2. Sources of Debt
a. Public placement of debt in own country
b. Global debt offering
c. Private placement of debt in home country
d. Private placement of debt in foreign country
3. Stockholder versus Creditor Conflict
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Cost of Debt Financing

To make long-term financing decision, the MNC must:


1. Determine the amount of funds needed
2. Forecast the price at which it can issue the bond
3. Forecast periodic exchange rate values for the
currency denominating the bond

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Measuring the Cost of Financing

1. Impact of a strong currency on financing costs: if


the currency that was borrowed appreciates over time,
an MNC will need more funds to cover the coupon or
principal payments.

2. Impact of a weak currency on financing costs: a


depreciating currency will reduce the issuer’s outflow
payments and reduce financing costs.

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Uncertainty of Financing Costs

1. Accounting for Uncertainty of Financing Costs by:


a. Sensitivity Analysis: develop alternative forecasts for
exchange rates each period and reestimate cost of financing.
b. Simulation: develop a probability distribution for the
exchange rate in each period and use a computer simulation
program to iterate possible future scenarios.
2. Actual Financing Costs
a. Determine how exchange rate movements affected the costs
of bonds denominated in a foreign currency.

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Reducing Exchange Rate Risk

1. Offsetting cash inflows


a. Offsetting cash flows with high-yield debt
2. Forward contracts
3. Currency swaps
4. Parallel loans
a. Using parallel loans to hedge risk
5. Diversifying among currencies

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Exhibit 18.7 Illustration of a Currency Swap

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Interest Rate Risk from Debt Financing

1. The debt maturity decision: interest rates and the


vary across maturities and across countries. Yield
curve can be upward sloping, flat, or inverted in
different countries.

2. The fixed versus floating decision: floating rate


coupons can be tied to the London Interbank Offer
Rate (LIBOR)

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Hedging with Interest Rate Swaps

1. The plain vanilla swap: contract to exchange


floating rate payments for fixed rate payments.

2. Determining swap payments: based on a notional


principal but the principal itself is not exchanged.

3. Limitations of interest rate swaps:


a. Time and resources associated with searching for suitable
swap candidate and negotiating terms
b. Risk that the counterparty could default on payments.

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Exhibit 18.10 Illustration of an Interest Rate Swap

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Other Types of Interest Rate Swaps

1. Accretion swap
2. Amortizing swap
3. Basis (floating-for-floating) swap
4. Callable swap
5. Forward swap
6. Putable swap
7. Zero-coupon swap
8. Swaption

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Standardization of Swap Market

1. International Swaps and Derivatives Association


(ISDA): a global trade association representing
leading participants in the privately negotiated
derivatives industry.

2. ISDA Master Agreement: provides a general legal


document to standardize the derivatives market.

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