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Aaron Nauman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
164 total appearances

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FinTech Helps Hotel Bed Owners in US Hedge FX Risk Selling to Travelers in Other Countries

So he can even end up losing in his business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FinTech Helps Hotel Bed Owners in US Hedge FX Risk Selling to Travelers in Other Countries

Basically, I'm a liquidity provider.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FinTech Helps Hotel Bed Owners in US Hedge FX Risk Selling to Travelers in Other Countries

So I have liquidities from a lot of banks, a lot of non-banks, and that's my business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FinTech Helps Hotel Bed Owners in US Hedge FX Risk Selling to Travelers in Other Countries

So I can buy the hedge very cheaply.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FinTech Helps Hotel Bed Owners in US Hedge FX Risk Selling to Travelers in Other Countries

So for four months' time, I can buy the Eurodollar hedge or the Eurodollar Ford, as we call it in our business, at a very good price.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FinTech Helps Hotel Bed Owners in US Hedge FX Risk Selling to Travelers in Other Countries

And that price I'm transferring, passing to...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FinTech Helps Hotel Bed Owners in US Hedge FX Risk Selling to Travelers in Other Countries

obviously, to the wine buyer, okay?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FinTech Helps Hotel Bed Owners in US Hedge FX Risk Selling to Travelers in Other Countries

And I'm just making a small margin on that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FinTech Helps Hotel Bed Owners in US Hedge FX Risk Selling to Travelers in Other Countries

Basically, 20, 30 basis points, you know, above my cost of hedging, which is actually very, very competitive.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FinTech Helps Hotel Bed Owners in US Hedge FX Risk Selling to Travelers in Other Countries

I mean, if you would try to do that, for example, versus, I mean, with his local bank, he would probably end up paying by 4%, 5% for the specific million dollars of euro-dollar hedging.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FinTech Helps Hotel Bed Owners in US Hedge FX Risk Selling to Travelers in Other Countries

So you're just going to pay me, okay, a million dollars in four months' time, and I will deliver you the euro so you can pay your supplier in Europe, okay?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FinTech Helps Hotel Bed Owners in US Hedge FX Risk Selling to Travelers in Other Countries

Oh, I see.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FinTech Helps Hotel Bed Owners in US Hedge FX Risk Selling to Travelers in Other Countries

That's the business we're doing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FinTech Helps Hotel Bed Owners in US Hedge FX Risk Selling to Travelers in Other Countries

I'm making money from the spread.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FinTech Helps Hotel Bed Owners in US Hedge FX Risk Selling to Travelers in Other Countries

So let's say I bought the hedge.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FinTech Helps Hotel Bed Owners in US Hedge FX Risk Selling to Travelers in Other Countries

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FinTech Helps Hotel Bed Owners in US Hedge FX Risk Selling to Travelers in Other Countries

If your dollar now is 104, okay, that's my cost.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FinTech Helps Hotel Bed Owners in US Hedge FX Risk Selling to Travelers in Other Countries

So I will sell it to you at 104.20.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FinTech Helps Hotel Bed Owners in US Hedge FX Risk Selling to Travelers in Other Countries

A euro dollar is 104 now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
FinTech Helps Hotel Bed Owners in US Hedge FX Risk Selling to Travelers in Other Countries

So for one euro, okay, it's $1.04.