Foreign Exchange Services

Silicon Valley Bank's foreign exchange services help you move money across borders seamlessly, minimize foreign currency risk and maximize your returns. Our currency hedging tools and services simplify your ability to set prices in the local currencies and gain a competitive advantage.

We offer competitive pricing and trade in virtually all freely traded and non-restricted currencies on the global inter-bank market, directly from our trading floor at Silicon Valley Bank headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif.

We take a personalized and consultative approach to managing your global currency risk. Through a large variety of foreign exchange services, our goal is to help you protect the U.S. value of your foreign currency revenues, control the cost of your foreign currency payments, minimize the translational impact on your balance sheet and mitigate the impact on your company's earnings due to conversion of foreign currency cash flow:

Among our services:

• A full range of instruments to hedge against foreign exchange risk, including forward contracts, spot contracts, swaps, over the counter options and structured options.
• Treasury management services, including foreign currency loans and deposits, fully operational in-country bank accounts with leading institutions around the globe, multi-currency accounts and loans. And you can manage your company’s accounts, currency purchases, transactions, investments and finances from a single online platform.
• Comprehensive advisory services. We help you identify the correct exposure, formulate FX strategies, set an FX policy based on your business objectives, and choose the solution that's right for your company. We closely monitor your at-best or stop-loss orders around the clock to lock in favorable exchange rates and mitigate loss. We also provide daily and weekly market commentary, and upon request, customized economic and technical analysis.
• Access. We've combined the convenience of the Web with support of experienced currency traders. Silicon Valley Bank advisors are always available by phone to answer any questions and offer guidance. 
   

Foreign exchange transactions can be highly risky, and losses may occur in short periods of time if there is an adverse movement of exchange rates. Exchange rates can be highly volatile and are impacted by numerous economic, political and social factors, as well as supply and demand and governmental intervention, control and adjustments. Investments in financial instruments carry significant risk, including the possible loss of the principal amount invested. Before entering any foreign exchange transaction, you should obtain advice from your own tax, financial, legal and other advisors, and only make investment decisions on the basis of your own objectives, experience and resources. Opinions expressed are our opinions as of the date of this content only. The material is based upon information which we consider reliable, but we do not represent that it is accurate or complete, and it should not be relied upon as such.