Hard and Soft Currencies

Central banks intervene in foreign exchange markets by “influencing the monetary funds transfer rate of a nation’s currency” with the purpose of building reserves, keeping the exchange rate stable, to correct imbalances, to avoid volatility and keep credibility. It implies changing the value of a currency against another one. It creates demand or supply of a currency by buying or selling the country’s currency in the foreign exchange market. (Foreign Exchange Intervention)

Financial - emergence of worldwide financial markets and better access to external financing for borrowers. By early 21st century it was possible to trade more than $1.5 trillion in national currencies on a daily basis due to expansion in trade and investment.. the rapid growth of these worldwide structures led to increased instability of financial structure globally (Greenspan, 2009). The following economic conditions of globalization aids successful business.

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When monetary authorities have not insulated their domestic money supplies from the foreign exchange transactions, it is known as ________ intervention.

- For the foreign producers, when their currency weakens, production becomes cheaper (especially if they have currency reserves in dollars), and their sales go up, since the weaker currency is more attractive to foreign buyers.

Around the world the effects of the crisis due to globalization are evident and the implications of globalization can be seen with much more clarity as many major financial institutions abroad also invested in mortgage securities and collateralized debt obligations. This like in the us lead to bank failures and bailouts in order to stabilize the markets that had been badly damaged by the financial crisis. Despite the efforts to stabilize the markets the damage to the economies of the world had been done and efforts of governments and central banks to stimulate their economies were

Increasing global connectivity and integration in today’s world ensures that almost any serious problem has worldwide ramifications. The global financial system can serve as a key example of this phenomenon. Very recently, Britain’s fifth-largest mortgage lender Northern Rock was rescued by emergency funding from the Bank of England. This made the Newcastle-based firm the highest profile UK victim of the global credit crunch that had been triggered by the sub-prime mortgage crisis in the US. The bank run on Northern Rock that followed was unprecedented in recent UK monetary history. The Overend Guerney crash of 1866 was the last recorded bank

Hard peg – a guarantee of a fixed exchange rate –weakens incentives for governments to make fiscal system more robust, because the hard peg makes it easier for governments to borrow foreign funds, thus allowing them to delay necessary reforms to fix fiscal imbalances. On the other hand exchange rate peg promotes openness to trade and economic integration. An exchange rate fixed to the U.S. dollar will likely promote trade with the United States and other countries tied to the U.S. dollar.

Global finance operations include financial procedures, such as accounting, financial planning and analysis, strategic planning, treasury, investor relations, and financial compliance. Exchange rate is the existing market cost for which one currency can be exchanged for another (Moffatt, n.d.). For instance, when the U.S. exchange rate for the Japanese Yen is ¥1.10, this means that 1 American Dollar can be exchanged for 1.1 Japanese Yen. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the exchange rate mechanism (Euro Currency Markets), to describe how this mechanism is used in global financing operations, and to analyze its importance in managing risks.

Answer: When a central bank buys (sells) foreign currency, its international reserves increase (decrease), and the money supply increases (decreases) simultaneously. To offset the effect on the money supply, the foreign exchange intervention can be sterilized; that is, the central bank can perform an open market operation that counteracts the effect on the money supply of the original foreign exchange intervention. The direct effects of a sterilized intervention are two-fold. First, it forces a portfolio shift on private investors, by replacing foreign bonds with domestic bonds (or vice versa). This may affect expectations and prices. Second, the actions of the central bank in the foreign exchange markets, while very small relative to the nominal trading volumes, may still manage to squeeze foreign exchange inventories at dealer banks and generate pricing effects. Indirectly, the central bank can signal its opinion on the fundamental value of the exchange rate through an intervention that consequently affects market expectations. There is no consensus on how effective sterilized interventions are in affecting the level and volatility of exchange rates.

Just after ten years of Asian financial crisis, another major financial crisis now concern for all developed and some developing countries is “Global Financial Crisis 2008.” It is beginning with the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers on Sunday, September 14, 2008 and spread like a flood. At first U.S banking sector fall in a great liquidity crisis and simultaneously around the world stock markets have fallen, large financial institutions have collapsed or been bought out, and governments in even the wealthiest nations have had to come up with rescue packages to bail out their financial systems. (Global issue)

In recent years, foreign banks accelerate their processes of globalisation, especially the entry in emerging market (J Cardenas, JP Graf & P O’Dogherty 2005), so does the Australian banks.

while only a seven fold increase in the capital funding of these assets. Global systematic banks are banks

The main concept of the article is to explain why the New International Financial Architecture (NIFA) was created and who is being benefited from this approach. The discussion begins with an examination of the power structures of the global political economy by focusing on the continued dominance of the USA. The article presents the contradictory relations between USA and global finance will be explored so as to shed more critical light on the NIFA. This article critically examines the NIFA by linking its institutional components to the larger contradictions of the capitalist inter-state system. A contradiction is the constant promotion of financial liberalization in emerging

A fixed exchange rate regime will offer an economy greater stability in international prices and therefore encourage trade. Additionally, for developing countries a fixed rate will assist in promoting institutional discipline as the country will adopt restrictive monetary and fiscal policies that foster an anti-inflationary environment. A significant weakness of a fixed rate is that it is subject to destabilizing speculative attacks which could lead to financial meltdowns and devastating economic contractions. A floating exchange rate regime allows central banks to combat macroeconomic factors such as unemployment, inflation, and interest rates without having to worry about the effect on exchange rates. However, developing countries whose economies depend on trade will be reluctant to allow their exchange rates to fluctuate freely.