Piper Sandler is the NAFCU Services Preferred Partner for Balance Sheet Management Services.
About The Webinar
Join Piper Sandler’s Scott Hildenbrand, head of financial strategies and Piper Sandler Hedging Services, LLC and Leah Viault, a managing director responsible for interest rate derivatives and hedging strategy, for a discussion on interest rate hedging strategies and best practices. They will discuss how the current environment is impacting balance sheets and walk through how credit unions can implement a hedge strategy unique to their institution.
Key Takeaways:
- Strategies for hedging rising and falling rates
- A look at what other financial institutions are doing
- Benefits and considerations to using interest rate derivatives
- An overview of best practices
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Presented By
Leah Viault
Managing Director, Financial Strategies
Leah Viault is a managing director within the financial strategies group at Piper Sandler. In this role, she is responsible for interest rate derivatives sales and hedging strategy. She also assists clients with general balance sheet strategy, including fixed income securities selection, interest rate risk management, capital raising and loan sales.Prior to joining Sandler O’Neill & Partners, L.P. in 2015, she spent 15 years at JPMorgan Chase, working with financial institution clients. She also worked within JPMorgan's CIO/treasury group, focusing on capital raising, liquidity management, fixed income securities sales, derivatives and repo execution and general asset/liability management.She earned a bachelor’s degree in international business and French from Lehigh University and is a CFA charter holder.
Scott Hildenbrand
Head of Financial Strategies Group
Scott Hildenbrand serves as chief balance sheet strategist and head of the financial strategies group at Piper Sandler.
Previously, he was a principal and chief balance sheet strategist of Sandler O’Neill + Partners, L.P. He headed the balance sheet analysis and strategy group, working with financial institutions on balance sheet strategy development, which includes interest rate risk management, investment portfolio strategy, retail and wholesale funding management, capital planning, budgeting, and stress testing. Hildenbrand also worked closely with the firm’s investment banking group to identify and develop strategic opportunities for clients involved in mergers and acquisitions.
Hildenbrand previously worked in Sandler O’Neill’s interest rate products group, focusing on developing and implementing structured wholesale funding strategies for financial institutions. He spent his first four years at the firm in the asset/liability management group. Prior to joining Sandler O’Neill in 2004, Hildenbrand worked as a financial analyst in asset/liability management at Tower Federal Credit Union in Maryland.