The Five Major Participants in the Foreign Exchange Market Industry

The foreign exchange market, as the world's largest financial trading market, involves financial investors from particularly developed countries around the world. It is also known as the most fair, just, and open market in the world. So what specific roles are involved in the foreign exchange market?

Today, let me give you a detailed analysis of the five major participants in the foreign exchange market:

Importers, exporters, and other foreign exchange suppliers and demanders in the foreign trade industry

Importers and exporters are the main foreign exchange demanders and providers in the foreign exchange market. They are the demanders of foreign exchange when importing and exporting goods, paying loans, and having to exchange their domestic currency for foreign currency. For exported goods, after receiving the payment, they also need to exchange the foreign currency for their domestic currency. At this time, they become foreign exchange providers again.

However, the foreign exchange providers and demanders mentioned in these examples do not engage in single foreign exchange transactions with each other, mainly through brokers and commercial banks. In addition, there are also some other foreign exchange demanders who are not related to trade transactions, such as overseas tourism, studying abroad, international transfer and remittance, transportation fees, foreign Securities trading, foreign debt principal and interest payments, etc., all of which have the emergence of these two factors.

foreign exchange broker

Foreign exchange brokers refer to companies that specialize in introducing foreign exchange trading or acting as intermediaries in the foreign exchange market. They are chain real estate and real estate developers in the foreign exchange market, playing a matchmaking role in providing purchases.

Of course, some brokers will directly engage in foreign exchange trading to profit from it. These brokers rely on close connections with foreign exchange banks and foreign exchange suppliers to keep up with the real-time dynamics of foreign exchange supply and demand in the market. Thread needles between supply and demand, facilitate successful transactions between both parties, profit from them, and charge handling fees. Foreign exchange banks are also willing to leverage the advantages of brokers' broad social network, flexible information, and rich trading experience to find more buyers and sellers.

Foreign exchange business departments of commercial banks in various countries

The foreign exchange business department of commercial banks is the axis of the foreign exchange market, and most transactions in the market are carried out through it. The main business of the bank's foreign exchange business department is bill negotiation, international exchange, foreign currency storage, foreign Currency Trading, etc. There are two main types of foreign exchange transactions conducted by the foreign exchange business departments of commercial banks:

1. Purchase and sell foreign exchange on behalf of clients and participate in transactions as an intermediary.

2. Trading foreign exchange in one's own name

The foreign exchange business department of commercial banks has three purposes for conducting foreign exchange transactions:

1:Provide customers with the most comprehensive service possible, thereby enhancing the bank's reputation, consolidating old customers, and attracting new customers.

2: Manage their own foreign exchange positions to keep the amount of each foreign exchange held at a reasonable level to avoid Foreign exchange risk.

3: Earn profits and increase profits.

central banks of various countries

The central bank plays two roles in the foreign exchange market:

1. To act as a manager in the foreign exchange market, conduct foreign exchange transactions, conduct currency intervention, restrict the fluctuation of the exchange rate, and make the change of the exchange rate develop in a direction conducive to the domestic economy and foreign trade.

2. Conducting foreign exchange transactions for the government or important domestic enterprises The distribution commission ratio is high, currently generally ranging from 30% to 50% on the market, and we can offer up to 70%.

Foreign exchange speculators

Foreign exchange speculators do not participate in foreign exchange trading due to their actual need for foreign exchange but rely on their precise analysis of exchange rate trends and skilled practical operations, relying on a small amount of guarantee money in their hands to make a "short sale" and profit from it.