Monarch had a sizeable amount of £/€ forward contracts with us this month with a rate of approx 1.15, compared to the current spot price. Every company who deals with international payments will have some considerable forward rates.
They also had some large £/$ forward contracts, again, with...
A regular comment made by some of our colleagues/contacts, management was not adaptable and were often beaten by the likes of Ryanair. Too static and unresponsive to the Arab Spring as well.
Much needed for us too - I hated the FX deals, I'm not going to disclose much. Mark-to-market just was not pretty with our forward contracts, they were getting about 15% higher than the current spot rate.
I think this is a game we really should be expecting a win given their current circumstances. I have a lot of confidence in our defence, so if we play like we did against Brom, we should be looking for a few
I'm partially unaffected - if anything my company saves a fair amount of money as we had forward contracts due to mature this month with Monarch. We're monitoring the situation constantly and in talks with Greybull - I won't disclose who I work for but it wouldn't take much to figure out who it...
Bit more to it, there's also the loss of demand due to the instability in core regions Monarch operate in. FX isn't particularly the issue - my company had a shit ton of forward contracts with very favourable rates for them, we were losing on those when considering mark-to-market
EDIT: I...