Profile
Chris Towner
Director
I joined as a Director and specialise in the provision of FX advice to funds, corporates and private equity clients. With a background in banking and corporate dealing, coupled with 15 years’ experience in advising corporates and funds on their FX exposures, my role at JCRA is to help clients protect themselves against currency risk.
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- Private Equity
- Corporates
- FX Hedging
- Real Estate
About Chris
Prior to JCRA, Chris worked at Barclays Capital on the foreign exchange trading desk for eight years before joining HiFX (now XE.com) for 15 years where he was responsible for the corporate side of the business for dealing and advisory.
In my spare time I enjoy spending time with my family as well as my other passions such as running, travel, restaurants and live music. I also like to keep in touch with different circles of friends that I have formed over the years.
Published work
The state of global interest rates
The pending summer holiday period gives us time to reflect on the year so far and the opportunity to recharge our batteries for what is expected to be a busy Q4...
Read moreEMIR 2.1 impact and the rise of emerging markets investing
Over the last few months we have seen a significant jump in advising funds looking to buy assets in South America. Here returns can still be significantly higher, but so are the risks
Read moreSterling Jumps Back to Life
Brexit has made uncertainty the norm causing traders over the past 18 months to sit on their hands while faced with a binary risk...
Read moreSpring cleaning your financial risk policy?
If your business or fund has the requirement to hold cash, there’s no time like the present to review yields..
Read moreUnderstanding currency impact at fund level
In December 2016 the FOMC initiated its current hiking cycle, raising rates by 25bps. Since then, gradually but consistently, we have seen the FOMC continue to tighten interest rates.
Read moreAre you prepared for a spike in FX volatility?
Generally, uncertainty breeds volatility in financial markets. If you have risk within your business or on fund level and you are considering hedging it, it is far easier to plan your strategy in a low volatility environment
Read moreThe growing influence of the US Dollar
When US rates push higher, USD denominated debt in emerging markets becomes more expensive.
Read moreChoppy Waters or Smooth Hedge? In 2019 protecting your budget exchange rate will be crucial
Drawing from our 30 year’s of experience advising clients globally and across sectors on how to hedge their FX exposure, we have compiled our top 10 tips to address budge rate setting.
Read moreThe outlook for the US dollar – A Self Fulfilling Prophecy?
Prophecies in the FX markets can end up being self-fulfilling. We are witnessing one at the moment with the US dollar. It starts with an improving economy and this leads to expectations and realities of higher interest rates, which strengthen the currency.
Read moreBank of England raise interest rates by 25bps to 0.75%
After Mark Carney poured cold water over the potential of a rate hike in the first quarter, which given the dip in economic activity we saw back then was the right thing to do, the Bank of England have today decided that the time is right to increase interest rates by 25bps to 0.75%.
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