Central Bank of China

PRESS RELEASE Release Date: Oct. 10, 2001




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Trading in the Taipei Foreign Exchange Market in August 2001

The trading in the Taipei foreign exchange market includes all foreign exchange transactions made by authorized foreign exchange banks and offshore banking units. After deducting double counting on the part of interbank transactions, total net trading volume in the market amounted to US$103.5 billion in August 2001. The average daily turnover was US$4.5 billion (Table 1).

In terms of trading partners, transactions between banks and customers accounted for 41.0 percent of total net turnover, with interbank transactions making up the remaining 59.0 percent (Graph 1).

In terms of traded currencies, NT dollar trading against foreign currencies accounted for 61.5 percent of total trading volume, of which the share of NT dollars against US dollars was 58.2 percent (Graph 2).

With respect to types of transactions, spot transactions accounted for the lion's share with 65.2percent of total turnover, followed by foreign exchange swaps with 15.1 percent, outright forwards with 7.8 percent (Graph 3).

In terms of the way transactions were made, the direct trade accounted for 67.5 percent of the interbank foreign exchange transactions, through money brokers for the remaining 32.5 percent (Graph 4).

In addition to the above-mentioned foreign exchange transactions, there are some other derivatives offered by the authorized foreign exchange banks. The turnover of interest rate swaps, forward rate agreement were US$1,931 million and US$1,040 million, respectively (Table 2).

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