The basic participants of the Forex currency market are:

Banks of commerce.
They make the basic volume of currency transactions. In banks save accounts other market participants and carry out conversion for purposes conversion and deposit-credit operations. Banks accumulate cumulative market demands in a currency exchange through operations with clients, and also in call for funds/placing and develop with them on other banks. Besides satisfaction of clients demands, banks can make operations and is independent for the account of internal funds. In the issue, the currency market represents the market of interbank transactions, and, speaking subsequently about price range of currencies and interest rates, it is necessary to mean the interbank currency market.

In the international currency market the greatest influence is rendered by the large international banks which daily volume of business reaches billions dollars.

Central banks.
The central (national) banks play the important role on the currency market. Their function includes management of first line reserves, realization of the spot interventions influencing level of the exchange rate, and also interest level regulation on investments in the national currency.

The firms, which are carrying out the foreign trade operations.
The companies participating in an international sales present a strong demand on a foreign exchange (regarding importers) and the offer of a foreign exchange (exporters), and also place and involve the free currency rests in short-term deposits. Thus the given organizations don’t have a direct access on the currency market, as a rule, and make conversion and deposit operations through banks of commerce.

The companies, which are carrying out foreign investments of assets.
The given companies presented any international investment, pension and hedge funds, and also insurance companies, carry out a diversified managements policy of assets portfolio, placing means in securities of the governments and corporations of the various countries. Dealers name them simply funds; the most known is Soros Foundation “Quantum”, which is conducting successful currency speculations. The large international corporations, which are carrying out foreign industrial investments, concern the given kind of firms also: creation of branches, joint ventures and so on.

Currency markets.
In a number of the countries with transitive economy currency markets which functions include realization of a currency exchange for juridical entity and formation of a market rate of exchange function. The state usually actively regulates exchange rate level, using compactness of the exchange market.

Currency brokerage firms.
Their function includes data of the buyer and the dealer in foreign exchange and realization between them conversion or loan-deposit operation. For the intermediary brokerage offices levy a brokerage in the form of percent from an amount of transaction. The brokerage office having the information on required rates is a place where is formed the real rate of exchange and real interest rates under already concluded bargains. Banks of commerce receive the information on a current level of exchange rate from brokerage offices.

Private persons.
Physical persons conduct a wide spectrum of non-commercial operations regarding foreign tourism, transfers of wages, pensions, fees, and purchases and selling of currency.

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