4. Individuals, firms and banks
With the help of telecommunication
Every single currency
Foreign currency for other currency
Most liquid financial market
24 hours market
5. No centralized location
Large and most liquid market
Speculation, hedging and arbitrage
Quote driven market
24 hours market
FEATURES OF FX MARKET
6. WHY PEOPLE CHOOSE FX MARKET
Large volume trading
Easy of entry
High chance of profit
24 hours market
Low fees cost
7. Market participants
SPOTMARKET
Commercial banks
Brokers
Customers of commercial and central bank
Corporations/ companies international
9. History of Foreign Exchange Market
4th century
Medieval and later
15th century
the Medici family
1704
Kingdom of England
County of Holland
Early modern
Modern to post-modern
WWII - Markets close - After 1973
10. Market Size and Liquidity
reign exchange market turnover, 1988–2007, measured in billions of USD.
Bank for International Settlements
outright forwards, swaps and other derivatives
1998 - $1.7 trillion 2010 - US$3.98 trillion April 2013
United Kingdom - 36.7%
United States - 7.9%
Japan - 6.2%.
Singapore surpassed Japan
$383 billion per day
United Kingdom (41%)
United States (19%)
Singapore (5.7)%
Japan (5.6%)
Hong Kong (4.1%)
12. No arbitrage condition
forward exchange and spot exchange rate
Expected rate of change = interest rate of the exchange rate differential
INTEREST RATE PARITY
13. RATE OF RETURN IN LOCAL
CURRENCY
=
RATE OF RETURN IN FOREIGN
CURRENCY
MATHEMATICALLY
14. If IRP is violated, then an arbitrage
opportunity exists.
VOILATION OF iRP
15.
16. Cash-settled , short term
forward contract.
NDF market is an OTC
market.
Contract traded on non-
convertible foreign
currency
NON DELIVERABLE FORWARDS
17. Calculated by taking the difference
between exchange rate and spot rate
Typically quoted with the USD as the
reference currency, and the
settlement amount is also in USD.