The bank’s principle forward instruments

Bank Services

• Deliverable forward — purchase/sale transaction of a certain amount of one currency (or precious metal) for another at a particular time in the future at a rate agreed at the time of the transaction
• Non-deliverable forward (ndf) — similar to a deliverable forward, but at the time of execution of contract the settlements between parties are made only at the rate of the exchange difference
• Option — buying the option to purchase (call)/sale (put) a certain amount of one currency (or precious metal) for another at a particular rate at a particular time in the future (european option) or at any time before this particular date (American option)
• Futures contracts on the U.S. dollar and Euro for Russian rubles at the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (MICEX) — standardized forward contracts, which are non-deliverable (rated) instruments.

Contracts Signing

• Sign a General Terms Agreement for Bilateral Transactions on the Interbank Market (available only in Russian) with Sberbank
• Contact the Sberbank operations department that provides services to the organization, giving notice of intent to conclude a particular forward transaction and request a quotation for this particular instrument
• On the basis of information received from Sberbank officers make a decision on the advisability of concluding the corresponding transaction
• Conclude the forward transaction with Sberbank (if the conditions offered by sberbank satisfy the company).

Financial institutions wishing to conduct operations with futures contracts should contact the Sberbank treasury board and sign with Sberbank the Standard Agreement for Customer Service in the Forward Market Section (available only in Russian) (Standard Agreements) of the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange.