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From Risk to Resilience

  
Thursday, August 28, 2025 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM   iCalendar Central Standard Time

From Risk to Resilience
How to Use the Exchange for Qualified Hedging and Interest Rate Risk Management
Webinar | Thursday, August 28, 2025, 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. CT

Burgeoning economic uncertainty has many bankers worried about interest rate risk (IRR). Institutions are holding cash, reluctant to risk threatening their economic value during a time when efficiency ratios, cost management, and risk management are paramount. But there is another path forward. Banks can reduce IRR and create a greater certainty of outcomes by hedging on the exchange.

The CME Group provides cost-effective access to hedging instruments. This webinar will teach bankers about the role of the exchange in the marketplace, the instruments available to banks for hedging, and how to deploy them for reducing IRR. With the right tools, knowledge, and support, any institution can hedge!

Agenda

  • Brief history of the CME Group
  • Role of the CME in the marketplace
  • Instruments for interest rate risk management
  • In focus – Swap Futures and TBA Futures
  • Benefits of Swap Futures and TBA Futures
  • Practical use case(s) for reducing interest rate risk 

Audience
CFOs, Treasurers, Heads of ALM/Finance, Mortgage Hedgers (Capital markets), Controllers, Senior Financial Analysts, Senior Accountants, and middle office/derivative settlement/margin operations folks

Presenters
Eric Leininger is Executive Director of Research and New Product Development for Interest Rates and Equities. The Research and Product Development team develops new risk management products as well as ensuring the continued relevance of our current suite of key benchmarks. The team also produces original research into derivatives and their underlying markets across asset classes and around the world.

Craig Haymaker is a Managing Director with Eris Innovations, responsible for hedging solutions. Prior to Eris, he was a Managing Director with HedgeStar—an outsourced, back-office hedging provider—overseeing sales, marketing, and operations.  Craig is a Certified Public Accountant whose career has been focused on risk management and financial products at Deephaven Capital Management, Deloitte & Touche, Liberty Mutual Group, and US Bancorp. Craig is also a former board member with the Professional Risk Managers International Association (PRMIA).

Fee Per Person
$29 IBA Members
$49 Nonmembers