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Gabriella
Banasiewicz
Business Development Director
Universal Partners
With nearly a decade in foreign exchange, Gabriella combines frontline trading expertise with deep corporate relationships. She has managed a portfolio of corporates and institutions trading over two billion, earning repeated recognition as Corporate Trader of the Year for her command of currency markets and hedging strategies. Among CFOs and finance teams, she's known for translating FX complexity into an actionable strategy, building valuable partnerships that evolve with their business. She is a large advocate for women joining finance and business in general, regularly found on panel discussions and at focus groups with aspiring female professionals, championing opportunity and mentorship in a traditionally male-dominated industry. Gabriella brings pragmatic insight to international payments and currency risk.
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12 November 2026 11:30 - 12:30
Practical deep-dive roundtable: Your FX strategy is costing you. Here's where.
Rigid hedging strategies were built for predictable markets; currency volatility and trade policy shifts have undermined them. This roundtable explores how CFOs are redesigning FX strategy to stay ahead of volatility without over-committing capital. You'll walk through real frameworks that quantify exposure, stay adaptive and flag potential FX cost inefficiencies. Bring your business profile: FX exposure by currency pair, budgeted exchange rate and current hedges. We'll run an FX Health Check showing where volatility may be hitting financial performance or what a more tailored strategy could capture.* Key takeaways: 1. Volatility is now the operating environment, not an edge case; static hedge ratios break. Winners build quarterly reviews & scenario planning into managing currency risk rather than set and forget. 2. Your business model, not risk appetite or emotions, determines your hedging strategy. Profit margins and price elasticity of demand dictate how exposed you can be to FX risk. 3. Reduce FX exposure before buying any financial instrument. Invoice currency, inventory location, payment timing, cash flow matching: most FDs don't optimise these as they look like ops, not treasury, decisions. *Educational purposes only; not investment advice, a recommendation, or a guarantee of future results. The suitability of any FX strategy will depend on a business's individual circumstances. Exchange rate movements can be unpredictable and may result in losses as well as gains.