Atlantica Associates LLC, Washington D.C., is an external economic and political research department for its corporate, institutional and private clients. It is led by professional staff with backgrounds in international organizations such as the IMF and the OECD as well as in financial markets and specializes in fx-related research and advisory support for global asset allocation strategies incl. currency risk management. Operating in Chicago derivative markets, we are registered with the CFTC (as a CTA and CPO) and a member of the NFA.

On the research side, we seek to add value to international sovereign credit ratings by providing a complementary benchmark rating of international borrowers' home-currency exchange rate risk, a (delayed) snapshot of which is publicly accessible on our Currency Risk page. We also seek to foster with our currency risk rating the practicality and acceptance of exchange-rate-defined Structured Note products and provide single currency risk assessments on demand. Other strategic research support we offer focuses on:

  investment risks arising from European Monetary Union both inside EMU itself and across global financial and foreign exchange markets;

  the evolving monetary and broader policy process inside European Monetary Union;

  policy contacts, presentations, event-planning inside the Euro-zone;

  G7 policy coordination, IMF agenda, exchange rate policies and market implications, incl. prior intra-European coordination on G7 and IMF issues;

  the risk distribution surrounding official "consensus" forecasts, including the latest political constraints on published (and forthcoming) economic forecasts and analysis of leading international organizations;

  same for official economic forecasts of foreign governments;

  critical analytical check-ups on latest international investment recommendations by securities firms (we are entirely independent and have no financial investment or sales interests of our own);

  implications of energy and non-fuel commodity price developments for emerging market risks;

  transfer risks in emerging markets and transition economies.

Our advisory relationships are personal, discreet and customized. We work with our clients in a distinctly close and interactive way to fully accomodate both their strategic goals and their internal reporting deadlines. They look at us as a conveniently centralized pool of external expertise they can draw upon flexibly anytime they have a specific need. This expertise covers a broad range of economic and financial risks overseas. We advise our clients how to evaluate and how to report on these risks in a way conducive to their own internal business objectives. Our services include:

  instantaneous research support,

  fact-finding intelligence,

  board-level briefing material,

  analytical planning documentation,

  corporate presentations,

  reports and publications on clients' behalf (including for international and foreign-language audiences) and

There are several ways how you can contact us:

  ask for additional information on our research services through
     Research.Direct (also in German or French),

  request a password for the membership-restricted area of this site,

  call U.S.A.-301-229.5022,

  E-mail us at info@currencyrisk.com,

  fax us at U.S.A.-301-229.8043,

  specify to us your strategic research requirements and invite our project proposal in writing (Atlantica Associates LLC, P.O. Box 40366, Washington, D.C. 20016-0366, U.S.A.).

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