FX Initiative Year End Feedback

FX Initiative End-of-Year Feedback: Help us enhance your experience using FX Initiative in 2022 and beyond! Thank you for supporting our mission throughout 2021 to teach FX risk management best practices. Please share what you like about our FX training and how we can do better.

Take our short survey here: https://www.fxcpe.com/feedback >

Happy Thanksgiving from FX Initiative!

Happy Thanksgiving from FX Initiative! We’re thankful for our wonderful team members and clients.

To our valued clients, partners, and team, we are grateful for all you’ve done for our business this year. All of your hard work, dedication, and resilience has helped us reach our organization’s goals for 2021. On this holiday, we want to make sure you know how much you’re appreciated and how much we value your contributions. We hope you have a joyous holiday and we look forward to serving your foreign exchange risk management needs well into the future.

On behalf of FX Initiative, we wish you, your family, and loved ones a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday.

Back-to-School Suggestions

As the school year approaches with pandemic related changes to the classroom environment, FX Initiative remains committed to continuously enhancing our foreign exchange (FX) risk management training. To complement the transition from in-person meetings to online environments, we are working on improving our suite of FX topics and tools to better serve your currency risk management needs safely and remotely.

We are listening closely to our audience of finance, accounting, and treasury professionals with the goal of providing useful and innovative virtual learning and business resources to keep organizations engaged online during the pandemic and beyond. Help us improve by sharing your feedback regarding what you like about our FX training and how we can do better. Take our short survey: https://www.fxcpe.com/feedback >

Supporting Student Opportunities

FX Initiative is pleased to offer Student Opportunities for WindyCityWebinars.org, a student supported remote learning platform that helps companies promote their brand and showcase their expertise with continuing professional education (CPE) webinars. Join us as we facilitate collaborative projects to create educational webinars between corporate sponsors and student leaders. We offer students unique opportunities to create webinars with sponsors to grow your network and gain useful knowledge.

Are you an undergrad or graduate student looking to upgrade your business skills and grow your network? You are invited to apply for this opportunity! Windy City Webinars is a remote learning platform designed to safely serve the professional development and networking needs of the Chicago business community by sharing business best practices and industry insights with students and professionals. Students work with a corporate sponsor on creating a highly engaging and educational webinar project.

Our portfolio projects aim to connect you to internship and employment opportunities by showcasing your learning abilities, skill sets, and work ethic to the Chicago business community. If accepted, you'll be a part of a robust community of diverse students and produce high quality projects. To help to identify and plan out your potential project, submit your application online at https://www.windycitywebinars.org/students.html or request a copy of our Student Opportunities guide by emailing info@windycitywebinars.org.

Serving Corporate Sponsors

FX Initiative is pleased to present our 2020 Sponsorship Guide for WindyCityWebinars.org, a student supported remote learning platform that makes it simple to promote your brand and showcase your expertise with continuing professional education (CPE) webinars. We are excited for you to participate and enjoy the recognition our sponsors receive as we facilitate collaborative projects to create engaging educational webinars between corporate sponsors and student leaders to realize synergies and foster community. 

Our dynamic Sponsorship Opportunities help to showcase your firm even better in 2020. Each sponsorship level has been tailored to offer significant value based on the frequency of webinars you would like to offer, with Platinum (monthly), Gold (quarterly), and Silver (individual) levels of Sponsor Commitment. The logo of each sponsor is promoted on the WindyCityWebinars.org website, email invitations, and promotional materials to ensure your organization’s brand is positioned prominently in front of clients and prospects.

By sponsoring WindyCityWebinars.org, you are helping fulfill our mission is to keep learning alive and accessible to all during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Your contribution helps us provide students with unique opportunities to assist with webinar projects to gain work experience, explore career paths, develop and refine skills, network with professionals, and acquire knowledge and confidence as they transition into the workforce. To request your 2020 Sponsorship Guide, please email info@windycitywebinars.org.

Student & Sponsor Synergies

In only 3 months, the COVID-19 pandemic has shifted the majority of in-person classrooms and conference rooms to online learning platforms and video based communications. While we are grateful for the technology innovations that have made this transition possible, we are mindful progress remains. In listening to our community, sentiment among students and professionals shows that engagement with classmates and colleagues feels distant. WindyCityWebinars.org is providing a solution.

We facilitate collaborative projects to create continuing professional education (CPE) webinars between corporate sponsors and student leaders to realize synergies and foster community. From real world and case study examples to academic theory, we work with sponsors to create CPE credit eligible webinars on business topics that complement products & services and support training & marketing objectives. Each webinar is enhanced by students using knowledge from their academic major.

During this period of isolation, it is clear that students and professionals alike are seeking creative ways to keep learning alive and communities thriving. WindyCityWebinars.org believes that investing in people is paramount to success. To that end, we warmly invite business leaders to invest in a CPE webinar project. As Napoleon Hill famously stated, “Within every adversity is the seed to an equal or greater benefit.” To learn about sponsor benefits, contact info@windycitywebinars.org.

Supporting Student Portfolio Projects

WindyCityWebinars.org, a remote learning project in development with FX Initiative and DePaul’s Coleman Entrepreneurship Center, is pleased to share our Student Application to complete a webinar portfolio project related to their academic major. Portfolio projects are designed to connect students with internship and employment opportunities by showcasing their learning abilities, skillsets, and work ethic to create educational programs presented to the Chicago business community.

Webinar portfolio projects are designed for ambitious students looking for a structured experience to help add something substantive and unique to their resumes and portfolios in summer 2020. With more and more internships cancelled, jobs on hold, and a summer in flux, this opportunity is meant to provide an approach for students to effectively use their summer and participate meaningfully in a community of professionals to gain experience and unlock potential opportunities in the future.

Students will be part of a robust and diverse community producing high quality continuing professional education (CPE) programs in business fields of study. WindyCityWebinars.org is focused on creating win-win-win outcomes that benefit our student contributors, corporate sponsors, and community of professionals as we fulfill our mission to keep learning alive and accessible to all during the COVID-19 pandemic.

All college students are welcome to apply. This interest form is designed to provide background information on student applicants to help identify and plan out each webinar project. Students should expect to spend 10-15 minutes answering the 10 questions. To get started, complete the application using the link below to be considered for this unique opportunity with WindyCityWebinars.org.

Student Application - Webinar Portfolio Project: https://forms.gle/NiQ1RAiTS3tKE6M69

Engaging Student Entrepreneurs

To help support students studying entrepreneurship strategy, FX Initiative is pleased to collaborate with DePaul University’s Coleman Entrepreneurship Center. During the spring semester, we will be working with a team of student entrepreneurs to deliver a series of remote learning sessions designed to serve the professional development and networking needs of the Chicago business community. 

The Coleman Entrepreneurship Center (CEC) empowers students, alumni, and community members to build sustainable businesses that do good and do well in Chicago. The CEC is a premier hub to connect, advise, and inspire entrepreneurship and innovation. To learn about their experiential programs, vibrant ecosystem, and academic curriculum for entrepreneurial success, visit cec.depaul.edu.

Founded in Chicago by DePaul alumni in 2010, FX Initiative is a global foreign exchange (FX) continuing professional education (CPE) provider of on-demand training, online tools, and webinar topics on currency risk management for corporate finance, accounting, and treasury professionals. We welcome the opportunity to provide real world experiences and support student growth opportunities.

In the weeks ahead, we will be announcing new projects and remote learning sessions that are open to the public and accessible online. We welcome business leaders and corporate sponsors to contact us about contributing the success of this student collaboration. To support initiatives between DePaul’s Coleman Entrepreneurship Center and FX Initiative, please email support@fxinitiative.com.

FX Initiative is focused on foreign exchange, and our mission is to help your international business succeed abroad by teaching corporate currency risk management best practices. To learn more, start your FX risk management training today, which provides 24/7 365 access to our complete suite of foreign exchange (FX) continuing professional education (CPE), examples & events at FXCPE.com.

Remote FX Risk Management Resources

Whether you work remotely or are highly mobile, FX Initiative provides a suite of foreign exchange (FX) risk management training and tools to help treasury professionals and sales teams achieve their objectives inside and outside of the office. If you need to research a foreign exchange educational topic related to your global business, or want to simulate a foreign exchange risk management strategy using our interactive examples, we offer a wide array of quality informational topics and tools that can help you manage FX risk.

FX Initiative is designed to make complex foreign currency matters simple and manageable, and is accessible 24 hours a day 7 days a week to meet your global business needs whenever and wherever a FX opportunity arises so you can make the right decisions to meet your FX objectives. Get acquainted with our educational topics and interactive examples, then review and test your knowledge with quizzes and CPE exams. Throughout your learning experience, visit our terms glossary and FAQ for help along the way.

Benefit from our currency risk management educational videos, review quizzes, CPE Exams, CPE Credits, and Certificates of Completion:

1. Foreign Exchange (FX) Market Overview
2. FX Risk Exposures
3. FX Risk Management
4. FX Spot & Derivatives
5. Hedging FX Transactions
6. Hedging Foreign Subsidiaries

Apply theory to practice with our suite of interactive examples to help reinforce learning concepts and model risk management strategies:

• Currency Code Locator
• FX Risk Policy Drafter
• FX Derivative Speculator
• FX Transaction Simulator
• FX Subsidiary Consolidator

Our training is available 24/7 365 to help you with FX risk policies, FX accounting, FX hedge strategies, and everything FX risk management related. Controllers and consultants alike can enhance their FX policies and procedures and simulate common hedging strategies using our collection of tools to clarify complex issues in real time and mitigate currency risk when transacting across borders.

FX Initiative is focused on foreign exchange, and our mission is to help your international business succeed abroad by teaching corporate currency risk management best practices. To learn more, start your FX risk management training today, which provides 24/7 365 access to our complete suite of foreign exchange (FX) continuing professional education (CPE), examples & events at FXCPE.com.