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Special drawing rights (SDRs, code XDR) are supplementary foreign exchange reserve assets defined and maintained by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). [1] SDRs are units of account for the IMF, and not a currency per se. [2] They represent a claim to currency held by IMF member countries for which they may be exchanged. [3]
The US dollar's position in global reserves is often questioned because of the growing share of unallocated reserves, and because of the doubt regarding dollar stability in the long term. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] However, in the aftermath of the 2008 to 2010 financial crisis, the dollar's share in the world's foreign-exchange trades rose slightly from 85% ...
The Special Drawing Rights Act of 1968 [5] made the ESF the recipient of IMF special drawing rights (SDRs) acquired by the US government. The ESF can convert SDRs into dollars on its account by issuing certificates against them and selling the certificates to the Federal Reserve, [6] and later repurchase them when it has surplus cash. [7]
This is a list of tables showing the historical timeline of the exchange rate for the Indian rupee (INR) against the special drawing rights unit (SDR), United States dollar (USD), pound sterling (GBP), Deutsche mark (DM), euro (EUR) and Japanese yen (JPY). The rupee was worth one shilling and sixpence in sterling in 1947.
Anchor to special drawing rights: The currency was anchored to the IMF's special drawing rights at an initial exchange rate of 4.28255 riyals per SDR and was allowed to fluctuate within a band from September 1975 to July 1981. In practice, since 1986, the currency has been pegged to the US dollar at a rate of 3.745 (now 3.75) riyals per US dollar.
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The spot date is day T+1 if the currency pair [1] is USD/CAD, USD/TRY, USD/PHP or USD/RUB. In this case, T+1 must be a business day and not a US holiday. If an unacceptable day is encountered, move forward one day and test again until an acceptable date is found. The spot date is day T+2 otherwise. The calculation of T+2 must be done by ...
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