CIC Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIC CIB) offers its clients a wide range of investment and hedging instruments to protect themselves against interest rate, currency, and commodity risks.
To deliver responsive local service, our teams are strategically based in the trading rooms of CIC’s five regional banks and in Paris. CIC CIB also meets hedging needs through its trading floor in Singapore.
Every year, our teams handle more than 100,000 hedging transactions for more than 6,000 clients, demonstrating their expertise and commitment to delivering high-quality solutions.
Our interest rate, currency, and commodity offers
Our teams offers bespoke solutions to companies in order to meet their needs in managing the main interest rate, currency, or commodity risks.
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Interest rates
Companies are subject to interest rate risk and an unfavourable change in interest rates can be costly for their cash flow.
CIC CIB offers its customers, lenders or borrowers, a complete range of products: interest rate swaps, caps, floors, collars, and cross-currency swaps.
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Currencies
CIC CIB offers hedging products on more than 30 currencies to help companies hedge currency fluctuation risks on imports and exports. These range from the simplest to the most sophisticated contracts : spots, forwards, currency swaps and options.
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Commodities
To secure the profitability of activities involving the purchase or sale of raw materials, CIC CIB offers a wide range of products : commodity futures (sale or purchase), swaps and Asian swaps, caps, floors. The categories of commodities processed include : petroleum products, electricity, natural gas, industrial metals (copper, aluminum, zinc, nickel, steel), sea freight and agricultural products (wheat, rapeseed, corn, sugar, coffee, cocoa, soybeans).
Our investments offer
CIC CIB has developed a wide range of cash-equivalent investments : Money Market, deposit accounts, term accounts, money market funds.
Our range also includes medium- and long-term products : Structured EMTNs issued by CIC and recognised expertise in asset management within the La Française Group, particularly in conviction-based management, alternative investment management, private debt, etc.
This support is backed by the strength of Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale : S&P A+, Moody’s A1 and Fitch AA- ratings.
