PROTECT YOUR BUSINESS FROM FOREIGN CURRENCY FLUCTUATIONS
Use a combination of strategies, tools and financial instruments to help protect your business from foreign currency fluctuations. Optimise your cash flow and get visibility into future exposures. Quickly forecast cash flow in one consolidated view. Revolutionise how you see your business with instant analytics that help you make sound business decisions.
Review your future foreign currency exposure
Review your future foreign currency exposure
Use our forecasting technology to understand your projected foreign currency exposure. Easily assess your potential exposure for every currency you use.
Work with a specialist to define your goals
Work with an expert to define your goals
Partner with one of our risk management experts to define your short and long-term business goals. Learn about the currency market and how to protect your budget rates or secure your ideal rate of exchange.
Create strategy
Create a strategy that’s right for you
Work with our specialists to build a plan that's complimented by our hedging products. We’ll find the right combination to help you help manage exposure, contain currency costs and protect your profits.
Execute plan
Execute your plan
Implement the right hedging tools to meet your goals and regularly assess performance.
Gain insights on your competitors and take action with our decision empowerment tools
Concerned about economic and trade uncertainty?
We asked 1000 UK businesses about their international payments and trading habits, to learn about the opportunities and risks they face in the current economic climate, and the practices and techniques they use to drive their import and export strategies
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WU® Currency Forecaster Tool
Are you overwhelmed by unpredictable currency markets? Plan for volatility and benchmark your FX forecasts against 70 economists.
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Gain confidence in your cash flow
Many businesses find it challenging to identify where their cash flow is exposed to currency volatility. With the free WU EDGE platform, you can gain full visibility into the actual cost of all your invoices in your local currency to understand the true cost of your international invoices and put a strategy in place to help protect your profits.
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Market insight and commentary
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Financial instruments to help you manage your currency exposure
Use a combination of financial instruments and hedging products such as forwards and currency options to protect your business from foreign currency fluctuations.
Forward Contracts
Lock in the current exchange rate for a set period of time (up to 12 months). This provides you with certainty and help protect your profits against adverse currency fluctuations
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Currency Options
Currency Options allow you to effectively manage risk and, at the same time, take advantage of positive changes in market exchange rates. They provide protection against adverse market developments while giving opportunity to participate in favourable moves, usually for zero cost. They may be used alone or in combination with other hedging tools, such as Forward Contracts and Market Orders, to offer a business a powerful risk management strategy.
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