With the coordination of Asst. Prof. Dr. Gülgün Çiğdem, the students of Banking and Insurance Department participated in training seminar on Foreign Exchange Risk and Use of Borsa Istanbul Derivatives Exchange (VIOP) in Management of Risk held at Borsa Istanbul on October 26, 2018.

In the first session of the training seminar realized with information sharing based on the experience of intermediary institutions managers, academicians and company managers, and where approximately 200 people from 114 institutions and organizations participated mainly from real sector, detailed information sharing was made about “What is Foreign Exchange Risk? How to Measure and Manage It?” Afterwards, besides giving information with real life samples on the topic “How Foreign Exchange Risk Management is reflected to Balance Sheets?” presentations on how to trade at VIOP and how to protect companies from foreign exchange risk were made. In the second session of the seminar, the participants were given information about “Macro Economy and Developments in Foreign Exchange Markets.” Furthermore some of the company managers shared real life examples regarding how they protect their firms from foreign exchange risk. The program realized with the participation of real sector representatives ended after questions and answers.