Company: BCO
Filing Date: 2025-08-06
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000078890-25-000253
Chunk: 41

Company: BRINKS CO
Filing Date: 2025-08-06
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 2
Chunk 41
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arily associated with doing business in foreign countries, including labor and economic conditions, the imposition of international sanctions, including by the U. S. government, political instability, controls on repatriation of earnings and capital, nationalization, expropriation and other forms of restrictive action by local governments. Changes in the political or economic environments in the countries in which we operate could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. The future effects, if any, of these risks are unknown. In April 2019, the U. S. government sanctioned the Venezuela central bank and, as a result, the Company has ceased support of the Venezuela business.

At June 30, 2025, Argentina's economy remained highly inflationary for accounting purposes. See Note 1 for more details about our Argentina operations including a description of how we account for currency remeasurement for our Argentine subsidiaries and the potential impacts of converting local currency into U. S. dollars.

Our international operations conduct a majority of their business in local currencies. Because our financial results are reported in U. S. dollars, they are affected by changes in the value of various local currencies in relation to the U. S. dollar. Future fluctuations in exchange rates could have either a positive or negative impact on our financial results.

Changes in exchange rates may also affect transactions that are denominated in currencies other than the functional currency. From time to time, we use short term foreign currency forward and swap contracts to hedge transactional risks associated with foreign currencies. These short term foreign currency forward and swap contracts primarily offset exposures in the euro, the Mexican peso, and the British pound and are not designated as hedges for accounting purposes. Accordingly, changes in their fair value are recorded immediately in earnings. See Note 7 for more details regarding our economic hedges.

We have entered into cross currency swaps and foreign exchange forward swap contracts to hedge a portion of our net investments in certain of our subsidiaries with euro and Hong Kong dollar functional currencies. As net investment hedges for accounting purposes, we elected to use the spot method to assess effectiveness for these derivatives that are designated as net investment hedges. Accordingly, changes in fair value attributable to changes in the undiscounted spot rates are recorded in the foreign currency translation adjustments component of accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) and will remain there until the hedged net investments are sold or substantially liquidated. We have elected to exclude the spot-forward difference from the assessment of hedge effectiveness and are amortizing this amount separately on a straight-line