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Roles of Major Banks and US Federal Reserve System
Major banks and major financial institutions of the world has an important role and responsibilities in the foreign exchange market. A developed country just cannot control the flow of currencies nor can a major financial organization. These institutions are tasked to control purchases and even change rates of interests and discounts. Each central bank of each country and the FRS or Federal Reserve System affects the rates on the forex market and the rates for discounts as well as the regulations on the money. They can even intervene and buy most currencies.
The work that most of these institutions do is to purchase deals again for selling currencies for similar prices and the rates for the interest to become fixed. These deals can affect by injecting some reserves in the banks. The currency of that country's currency will inevitably become weak but this action is needed to avoid inflation. There is another deal called the matched sale-purchase deals which work in a different way than the first deal. The banks will sell their security to another dealer but the deal is to purchase it again for the similar price which is meant to drain the reserves making the country's currency stronger.
FRS of United States has also been making deals for swapping currencies with most of the world's major banks ever since the sixties. An example is using funds for invading countries or helping keep peace. The payments for international organizations like United nations also go to the major bank of the country first. There have been interventions by the Federal Reserves with the objective to restore the proper condition of the market by influencing the rates.
Two kinds of interventions on the forex market are commonly known. These are sterilized and non sterile form of intervention. The latter type pertains to forex activities that FRS does while intervening. Usually this is done by buying or selling American dollars versus another currency. The effect lasts for a longer period of time. The other type of intervention is the sterilized one where securities the country owns will be sold. This will have an offsetting effect on the reserves of the country. This was all done because of the intervention. The major bank of the country will fund the deal. The major impact of this kind of action is always obvious on the demand of the economy and its supply. The effect does not lasts for a long period of time.
