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International Finance Course - Chapter 3 THE FOREIGN EXCHANGE MARKET外汇市场

 



Term

Explanation

Foreign exchange market.

Function:

·      Means of payment and settlement for international economic transactions

·         Currency Exchange

·     Hedging套期保值/对冲 (by exchange the currency to another currency to avoid the risk cause by fluctuation of exchange rate.)

·     Speculation (by earning the gap price between ask and bid)

·  Provide Credit 授信 (provide loan by taking advantages of time difference of foreign exchange receipt and payment.)

·     International transfer of purchasing power (stimulate market and economic)

Global Market Trading Hour

Totally market is open for 24 hour per days, but it was only certain country market open at certain time period per day. Foreign exchange market open for 5 day per week.

 

In fact:

This will cause the Time advantages in some country such as China. Usually at China people get off work after 5 pm and more able to catch up with the most volatile time period from 12:00 to 24:00.

Foreign exchange market participant.

·         Liquidity seekers and profit seekers

·         Bank and non-bank foreign exchange dealers (earning gap price between bid and ask price.)

·         Foreign exchange Broker or agent. (Middleman between buyers and sellers by provide intermediary services.)

·         Individual and firm

·         Speculators and arbitragers.

·         Central bank and treasuries (use the market to buy or sell currency to influence their own currency value)

Foreign exchange market components

Continuous Linked Settlement. (CLS銀行)

·         CLS function as bank which take place in the transaction through its account in central bank of various countries to complete the “payment versus payment” (PVP)

·         CLS作为银行,通过其在各国央行的账户进行交易,完成 “支付对支付” PVP

 

society for worldwide interbank financial telecommunication环球银行金融电信协会

·         The member-own society that provide safe, secure and creditable financial transaction for its member by provide the member a unique swift id code that able to identify the information such as country, bank and so on.

·         会员拥有的社会,通过为会员提供唯一的能够识别国家、银行等信息的swift id代码,为其会员提供安全、可靠和可信的金融交易。

Foreign exchange market tools

Forward远期交易

Refer to the transaction that both parties agree to deliver the agreement at agreed time period according to the agreement condition such as amount, type of currency and price.

指交易双方根据约定的金额、币种、价格等约定条件,约定在约定的时间期限内交付协议的交易。

 

Spot即期交易

Refer to the transaction that both parties agree to make a transaction according to the current real-time market price.

指双方同意按照当前实时市场价格进行交易.

 

Swap掉期交易

Refer to both parties agree to exchange assets at the certain period in the future.

指双方同意在未来一定时期内进行资产交换。

·         Spot against Forward

Dealers buy currency at spot market and sell back in forward market to the same bank.

·         Forward-forward swap

Dealers sell and buy different currency at the same time for hedging purpose.

·         Non deliverable Forwards无本金远期汇率交易产品

 

 

Clearing House Interbank Payments System

The system operates by NYCHA for payment and settlement purpose, which mainly deal with dollar transaction.

该系统由 NYCHA 运营,用于支付和结算,主要处理美元交易。

Market Convention

BID price买入价

The price that dealer willing to pay in certain type of currency to buy another currency

 

ASK Price卖出价

The price that dealer willing to receive in certain type of currency to sell another currency.

 

Bid-Ask Spread买卖价差

Refer to the situation while Ask price is slightly higher than bid price

 

Direct Quote直接报价

Price of a foreign currency in domestic (home) currency units.

Example:

EUR 1.567 /1 USD

 

Indirect Quote间接标价

Price of the domestic currency in foreign currency units

Example:

EUR 0.6381 / 1 USD

 

 



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