Tips and tricks to survive FX

FX Survival Toolkit

This is your essential gear for navigating financial uncertainty. Inside you’ll find a course, practical strategies, and governance frameworks to help you:

  • Identify where risks are hiding.

  • Protect your margins and cash flows.

  • Keep your board confident that you’re in control.

Video Series

FX 101 Course

A 7-part series FX crash course with Alex Bayle, a seasoned FX professional with over 20 years industry experience. We'll cover how FX exposure works, why volatility matters, and what hedging really means.

Designed for CFOs

Designed sepcifically for CFOs, Finance Directors, and Treasury teams at scaling businesses with international operations.

Discover

FX Exposure Tool

Input your upcoming cashflows and instantly see where your risks are by currency pair. Understand potential upside/downside for different hedging scenarios.

Calculate your exposures

Scenario analysis

Generate a PDF report

Generate a PDF report

Compare

Price Checker

Enter the details of a trade with your existing FX provider, and we'll calculate and compare their rate with Bound. Use this tool to see what fair rates look like.

template

Business Case Template

A polished, editable presentation containing slides on market outlook, risks and exposures, proposed strategies, expected outcomes, implementation timelines, and more.

Board-ready, in minutes

Present your FX risks, strategy and expected outcome directly to the leadership team.

Board-ready, in minutes

Present your FX risks, strategy and expected outcome directly to the leadership team.

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KYB: Questions for your provider

When you work with an FX provider, you’re trusting them with both your money and your margins.

The right questions reveal whether you’re getting transparency and alignment or hidden costs and unnecessary risk.

FX Hedging Policy Template

Components

Introduction

Template

Hedging Policy Template

Get a free comprehensive and customisable hedging policy template designed for Treasurers and Finance teams:

  • Choose between a 12 page Word or PDF document

  • Covers objectives, definitions, FX products, strategies, controls & monitoring and more

  • Easily tailored to the specific needs of your business

Over 200 fast-growing companies use Bound to manage their foreign currency

Curious to discover why?

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© 2026 Bound. All rights reserved. Bound is a trading name of Bound Rates Limited.

Bound Rates Limited is registered in England and Wales (company number 13036275). Registered office: 16 Great Chapel Street, London W1F 8FL.

Regulatory status: Bound Rates Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) as a MiFID investment firm (FRN 966723). It is also authorised by the FCA under the Electronic Money Regulations 2011 for the issuing of electronic money (FRN 1036025). You can check our authorisation on the FCA Register at register.fca.org.uk.

Not all of our products and services are regulated by the FCA. FX spot contracts, and forwards used to facilitate payment for identifiable goods, services or direct investment ("exempt forwards"), are not regulated. Your account terms set out which services are regulated.

This website is intended for UK businesses and is not an offer or solicitation in any jurisdiction where we are not authorised.

How your money is protected: Client money relating to our MiFID business is held in segregated accounts under the FCA's CASS rules. If we failed, eligible claimants may be able to claim up to £85,000 from the FSCS, and up to £120,000 per client per bank if a bank holding client money failed. Funds in settlement and margin held under title transfer are not segregated. E-money is safeguarded but is not protected by the FSCS. See fscs.org.uk for eligibility.

Risk: FX hedging carries risk. Read the FX Forwards Key Features and Risk Document (https://bound.co/legal/fx-forwards-key-features-and-risk-document) before trading.

Testimonials and case studies reflect individual customers' experiences and may not be representative. Results depend on each business's circumstances and market conditions. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results.

Over 200 fast-growing companies use Bound to manage their foreign currency

Curious to discover why?

Currency hedging technology with unrivalled speed and flexibility

© 2026 Bound. All rights reserved. Bound is a trading name of Bound Rates Limited.

Bound Rates Limited is registered in England and Wales (company number 13036275). Registered office: 16 Great Chapel Street, London W1F 8FL.

Regulatory status: Bound Rates Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) as a MiFID investment firm (FRN 966723). It is also authorised by the FCA under the Electronic Money Regulations 2011 for the issuing of electronic money (FRN 1036025). You can check our authorisation on the FCA Register at register.fca.org.uk.

Not all of our products and services are regulated by the FCA. FX spot contracts, and forwards used to facilitate payment for identifiable goods, services or direct investment ("exempt forwards"), are not regulated. Your account terms set out which services are regulated.

This website is intended for UK businesses and is not an offer or solicitation in any jurisdiction where we are not authorised.

How your money is protected: Client money relating to our MiFID business is held in segregated accounts under the FCA's CASS rules. If we failed, eligible claimants may be able to claim up to £85,000 from the FSCS, and up to £120,000 per client per bank if a bank holding client money failed. Funds in settlement and margin held under title transfer are not segregated. E-money is safeguarded but is not protected by the FSCS. See fscs.org.uk for eligibility.

Risk: FX hedging carries risk. Read the FX Forwards Key Features and Risk Document (https://bound.co/legal/fx-forwards-key-features-and-risk-document) before trading.

Testimonials and case studies reflect individual customers' experiences and may not be representative. Results depend on each business's circumstances and market conditions. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results.

Over 200 fast-growing companies use Bound to manage their foreign currency

Curious to discover why?

Currency hedging technology with unrivalled speed and flexibility

© 2026 Bound. All rights reserved. Bound is a trading name of Bound Rates Limited.

Bound Rates Limited is registered in England and Wales (company number 13036275). Registered office: 16 Great Chapel Street, London W1F 8FL.

Regulatory status: Bound Rates Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) as a MiFID investment firm (FRN 966723). It is also authorised by the FCA under the Electronic Money Regulations 2011 for the issuing of electronic money (FRN 1036025). You can check our authorisation on the FCA Register at register.fca.org.uk.

Not all of our products and services are regulated by the FCA. FX spot contracts, and forwards used to facilitate payment for identifiable goods, services or direct investment ("exempt forwards"), are not regulated. Your account terms set out which services are regulated.

This website is intended for UK businesses and is not an offer or solicitation in any jurisdiction where we are not authorised.

How your money is protected: Client money relating to our MiFID business is held in segregated accounts under the FCA's CASS rules. If we failed, eligible claimants may be able to claim up to £85,000 from the FSCS, and up to £120,000 per client per bank if a bank holding client money failed. Funds in settlement and margin held under title transfer are not segregated. E-money is safeguarded but is not protected by the FSCS. See fscs.org.uk for eligibility.

Risk: FX hedging carries risk. Read the FX Forwards Key Features and Risk Document (https://bound.co/legal/fx-forwards-key-features-and-risk-document) before trading.

Testimonials and case studies reflect individual customers' experiences and may not be representative. Results depend on each business's circumstances and market conditions. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results.