“Foreign exchange” refers to money denominated
in the currency of another nation or
group of nations. Any person who exchanges
money denominated in his own nation’s
currency for money denominated in another
nation’s currency acquires foreign exchange.
That holds true whether the amount of the
transaction is equal to a few dollars or to
billions of dollars; whether the person
involved is a tourist cashing a traveler’s check
in a restaurant abroad or an investor
exchanging hundreds of millions of dollars for
the acquisition of a foreign company; and
whether the form of money being acquired
is foreign currency notes, foreign currencydenominated
bank deposits, or other shortterm
claims denominated in foreign currency.
A foreign exchange transaction is still a shift
of funds, or short-term financial claims, from
one country and currency to another.
Thus, within the United States, any money
denominated in any currency other than theU.S. dollar is, broadly speaking, “foreign
exchange.”
Foreign exchange can be cash, funds available
on credit cards and debit cards, traveler’s checks,
bank deposits, or other short-term claims. It is
still “foreign exchange” if it is a short-term
negotiable financial claim denominated in a
currency other than the U.S. dollar.
But, in the foreign exchange market described
in this book—the international network of major
foreign exchange dealers engaged in high-volume
trading around the world—foreign exchange
transactions almost always take the form of an
exchange of bank deposits of different national
currency denominations. If one bank agrees to
sell dollars for Deutsche marks to another bank,
there will be an exchange between the two parties
of a dollar bank deposit for a DEM bank deposit.
In this book, “foreign exchange” means a bank
balance denominated in a foreign (non-U.S.
dollar) currency.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
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