Currency Future

A currency future, also FX future or foreign exchange future, is a futures contract to exchange one currency for another at a specified date in the future at a price (exchange rate) that is fixed on the purchase date. Typically, one of the currencies is the US dollar. The price of a future is then in terms of US dollars per unit of other currency. This can be different from the standard way of quoting in the spot foreign exchange markets. The trade unit of each contract is then a certain amount of other currency, for instance €125,000. Most contracts have physical delivery, so for those held at the end of the last trading day, actual payments are made in each currency. However, most contracts are closed out before that. Investors can close out the contract at any time prior to the contract's delivery date.

Floating Exchange Rate

A floating exchange rate or fluctuating exchange rate is a type of exchange rate regime wherein acurrency's value is allowed to fluctuate according to the foreign exchange market. A currency that uses a floating exchange rate is known as a floating currency. It is not possible for a developing country to maintain the stability in the rate of exchange for its currency in the exchange market. There are two options open for them- [1] Let the exchange rate be allowed to fluctuate in the open market according to the market conditions, or [2] An equilibrium rate may be fixed to be adopted and attempts should be made to maintain it as far as possible. But, if there is a fundamental change in the circumstances, the rate should be changed accordingly. The rate of exchange under the first alternative is know as fluctuating rate of exchange and under second alternative, it is called flexible rate of exchange. In the modern economic conditions, the flexible rate of exchange system is more appropriate as it does not hamper the foreign trade.

State Administration of Foreign Exchange

The State Administration of Foreign Exchange (simplified Chinese: 国家外汇管理局; pinyin: Guójiā wàihuì guǎnlǐ jú) of the People's Republic of China is an administrative agency tasked with drafting rules and regulations governing foreign exchange market activities, and managing the state foreign exchange reserves, which at the end of June 2009 stood at $2.13 trillion for the People's Bank of China. The current director is Yi Gang.^[1]

InstaForex

InstaForex (InstaTrade Corporation) – ECN-broker provides on-line trading services on the international financial Forex market and trading of contracts for difference CFD services.

The name of the company comes from the eng. "instant" and "Forex", which means "instant execution of orders on the Forex market".

History

InstaForex project was founded in 2007 by InstaTrade Corporation as retail broker on the financial Forex market. Right after the registration the contract was concluded with one of the leading companies in software engineering for financial markets – MetaQuotes Software. That is how InstaForex started working on the market of brokerage services all over the world. During the first couple of months of InstaForex operations the contracts were concluded with the major western contra-agents, which provides access to the banking currency market. For providing informational support to the clients agreements were signed on the news providing with major media-company on financial markets in the USA – Dow Jones & Company.

Forex Bank

Forex AB is a Swedish financial services company. The company was started in 1927 as a currency exchange service for travellers, at the Central Station in Stockholm. The owner of Gyllenspet's Barber Shop, according to the legend, discovered that most of his customers were tourists in need of currency for their trips. The owner began keeping the major currencies on hand.

The company was subsequently acquired by Statens Järnvägar (now SJ AB), the Swedish State Railways, which expanded the operations until it was sold off to one of the managers, Rolf Friberg, in 1965. The company was the only one apart from the banks that was licensed to conduct currency exchange in Sweden.

FXdirekt Bank

The FXdirekt Bank is an independent company with around 90 employees. The company headquarters are located in Krefeld, Germany and the branch office is located in Oberhausen. The FXdirekt Bank is a member of the EdW ("Entschädigungseinrichtung der Wertpapierhandelsunternehmen"), which is an organisation created to secure investor claims and is also registered as a commercial bank with the BaFin (German Federal Institute for Financial Services Supervision).

National Stock Exchange of India

The National Stock Exchange of India Limited (NSE), is a Mumbai-based stock exchange. It is the largest stock exchange in India in terms of daily turnover and number of trades, for both equities and derivative trading.^[1]. NSE has a market capitalization of around Rs 47,01,923 crore (7 August 2009) and is expected to become the biggest stock exchange in India in terms of market capitalization by 2009 end.^[2]Though a number of other exchanges exist, NSE and theBombay Stock Exchange are the two most significant stock exchanges in India, and between them are responsible for the vast majority of share transactions. The NSE's key index is theS&P CNX Nifty, known as the Nifty, an index of fifty major stocks weighted by market capitalisation.

Origins

The National Stock Exchange of India was promoted by leading Financial institutions at the behest of theGovernment of India, and was incorporated in November 1992 as a tax-paying company. In April 1993, it was recognized as a stock exchange under the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956. NSE commenced operations in the Wholesale Debt Market (WDM) segment in June 1994. The Capital Market(Equities) segment of the NSE commenced operations in November 1994, while operations in theDerivatives segment commenced in June 2000.