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Pension funds and other 'non-bank' financial firms have more than $80 trillion of hidden, off-balance sheet dollar debt in FX swaps, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) said. The BIS ...
The forex scandal (also known as the forex probe) is a 2013 financial scandal that involves the revelation, and subsequent investigation, that banks colluded for at least a decade to manipulate exchange rates on the forex market for their own financial gain.
In finance, a foreign exchange swap, forex swap, or FX swap is a simultaneous purchase and sale of identical amounts of one currency for another with two different value dates (normally spot to forward) [1] and may use foreign exchange derivatives. An FX swap allows sums of a certain currency to be used to fund charges designated in another ...
In finance, a currency swap (more typically termed a cross-currency swap, XCS) is an interest rate derivative (IRD). In particular it is a linear IRD, and one of the most liquid benchmark products spanning multiple currencies simultaneously. It has pricing associations with interest rate swaps (IRSs), foreign exchange (FX) rates, and FX swaps ...
In August 2008, the CFTC set up a special task force to deal with growing foreign exchange fraud. [3] In January 2010, the CFTC proposed new rules limiting leverage to 10 to 1, based on "a number of improper practices" in the retail foreign exchange market, "among them solicitation fraud, a lack of transparency in the pricing and execution of transactions, unresponsiveness to customer ...
The Swaps Regulatory Improvement Act would improve the ability of banks to use swaps as a tool for hedging risk. [1] If Dodd–Frank is not amended, non-bank institutions will have to do many of the swap trades instead. [1] H.R. 992 passed the House during the 113th United States Congress.
Central bank liquidity swap is a type of currency swap used by a country's central bank to provide liquidity of its currency to another country's central bank. [1] [2] In a liquidity swap, the lending central bank uses its currency to buy the currency of another borrowing central bank at the market exchange rate, and agrees to sell the borrower's currency back at a rate that reflects the ...
Measured by value, foreign exchange swaps were traded more than any other instrument in April 2022, at US$3.8 trillion per day, followed by spot trading at US$2.1 trillion. [3] The $7.5 trillion break-down is as follows: $2.1 trillion in spot transactions; $1.2 trillion in outright forwards; $3.8 trillion in foreign exchange swaps; $124 billion ...