On Thursday 26th April at the European, Middle East and Africa Business Excellence Awards, London-based business, Vedanta Hedging’s CEO, Abhishek Sachdev, won recognition with the highest accolade in the category SME CEO of the Year.
Cllr Abhishek Sachdev was thrilled to collect the award during a black-tie event at the Arena and Convention Centre (ACC) in Liverpool, Abhishek explained, “Our mission hinges on the very best customer service, outstanding value and second-to-none technical expertise. Our team work as a cohesive and dynamic unit to ensure deliver on this every day and this is a fantastic recognition of their effort and achieving our overall goals. Thank you to all of our clients and professional partners that have supported us.”
Abhishek founded Vedanta Hedging Ltd in 2011 to help SMEs gain impartial hedging advice when dealing with Banks. Vedanta Hedging is now the UK’s largest firm of FCA authorised derivatives advisors for SMEs. They instigated the FCA IRHP Review scheme which delivered c£2.5bn redress to 22,000 UK SMEs. The judges stated that they key reason for the award was the impact that Vedanta Hedging had had on UK SMEs.
Vedanta Hedging have provided evidence and advice to the Prime Minister, the Treasury Select Committee, as well as paid advice to the FCA itself. Vedanta Hedging’s team have also been interviewed dozens of times on BBC TV, Sky TV, Channel 4, BBC Radio 4, The Telegraph, Bloomberg, Reuters, The Times and many more.
Principally, Vedanta Hedging advises a wide range of corporates on interest rate and FX hedging; including some of the largest property firms in the UK and PLCs.
