Taipei Foreign Exchange Market August 2013
PRESS RELEASE Release Date: September 24, 2013
Taipei Foreign Exchange Market
August 2013
Taipei foreign exchange market covers all foreign exchange transactions made by authorized foreign exchange banks and offshore banking units. After eliminating double counting arising from interbank transactions, total net trading volume in the market amounted to US$595.4 billion in August 2013. The average daily turnover was US$28.4 billion .
Transactions between banks and customers accounted for 23.2 percent of total net turnover, with interbank transactions making up the remaining 76.8 percent .
NT dollar/foreign currency trading accounted for 37.5 percent of total trading volume, of which the share of NTD/USD trades was 35.9 percent .
Foreign exchange swaps accounted for the lion’s share with 43.9 percent of total turnover followed by spot transactions with 34.1 percent and options with 16.1 percent .
Direct trades accounted for 81.3 percent of all interbank foreign exchange transactions and the remaining 18.7 percent was through money brokers .
In addition to the above-mentioned foreign exchange transactions, other derivative products were also offered by banks. In August 2013, the turnovers of interest rate swaps and commodity price swaps ＆ options were US$4.2 billion and US$0.4 billion, respectively .