Daily FX rate snapshot email for treasury teams
Every weekday at 7am ET, your international finance team gets a morning email with current FX rates, day and week deltas, and a brief note on what moved.
Integrations
Real-Time Finance Data
Gmail
Google Sheets
Type
Categories
- Finance
- Operations
Build me an agent workflow that runs on a cron trigger every weekday (Monday through Friday) at 7am America/New_York and sends my international finance team a treasury-style FX rate snapshot email.
Configurable inputs the workflow should expose: a list of currency pairs (default USD/EUR, USD/GBP, USD/JPY, USD/CAD, USD/INR), a comma-separated recipient list for the finance distribution, a move threshold for the news callout (default 0.5% day-over-day, expressed as a positive percentage that matches either direction), the Gmail sender account, and the Google Sheet ID plus tab name for the running log (default tab name: FX rates log).
On each run, the agent should: (1) For each configured pair, call Real-Time Finance Data Get Currency Exchange Rate to get the current rate. (2) For each pair, call Real-Time Finance Data Get Currency Time Series with period 5D to compute day-over-day and week-over-week percentage changes from the most recent closes (use the latest point as today, the prior trading day for d/d, and 5 trading days back for w/w). (3) For any pair whose absolute day-over-day change exceeds the threshold, call Real-Time Finance Data Get Currency News for that pair and pick the single most relevant headline that explains the move.
Then have the agent draft a short, skimmable briefing email. The body should contain: a one-line date header in ET, a compact rate table with one row per pair showing the pair, current rate (to 4 decimals, or 2 for JPY-style pairs), day-over-day percent change, and week-over-week percent change, and a one-paragraph commentary section that mentions ONLY the pairs that moved past the threshold, each with the driver from the news headline and a short note on what it could mean for invoicing or hedging if relevant. If nothing moved past the threshold, write a single sentence saying rates were quiet. Keep the tone factual and concise. No fluff, no investment advice.
Send the email via Gmail Send a Message to the configured recipient list with subject "FX morning snapshot — <date>". After sending, append one row per pair to the Google Sheet log via Google Sheets Append Values, with columns: date (ISO), pair (e.g. USD/EUR), rate, d/d %, w/w %, headline driver (blank if pair did not trigger a news lookup).
Operational notes: format percentages with a sign and two decimals (for example, +0.42% or -1.18%). Use ISO 4217 codes everywhere (USD, EUR, GBP, JPY, CAD, INR). If Real-Time Finance Data returns no time series or no rate for a pair, still include the pair in the table with a clear placeholder and skip its news lookup rather than failing the whole run. Make the threshold check use absolute value so both rallies and selloffs get explained.
What it does
- Sends a clean morning email with the currency pairs your team cares about (USD/EUR, USD/GBP, USD/JPY, USD/CAD, USD/INR by default) plus day-over-day and week-over-week changes.
- Writes a short paragraph explaining only the pairs that actually moved, using fresh news so the team understands the driver before standup.
- Flags any pair that moved more than your threshold so AP, billing, and hedging decisions can react the same morning.
- Appends a dated row per pair to a running FX rates log in Google Sheets, building a historical archive you can chart or audit later.
What you’ll need
- A Real-Time Finance Data account (free RapidAPI plan works to get started).
- A Gmail account that can send to your finance distribution list.
- A Google Sheet with a tab named FX rates log where the running history will be appended.
How to customize it
- Swap the default currency pairs for whatever your team books in, like USD/MXN, USD/BRL, USD/CHF, or USD/AUD.
- Change the move threshold (default 0.5% day-over-day) that decides which pairs get a commentary callout.
- Adjust the schedule, the recipient list, or the Google Sheet tab name to match your team's existing morning routine.
Use cases
- Daily Digests
- AI Reports
- Email Automation