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Abstract:Foreign currency and exchange are combined to form the term forex (FX). The process of changing one currency into another is known as foreign exchange, and it typically occurs for business, trade, or travel.
Foreign currency and exchange are combined to form the term forex (FX). The process of changing one currency into another is known as foreign exchange, and it typically occurs for business, trade, or travel.
Currency exchange takes place on the foreign exchange market. Since they enable us to make local and international purchases of goods and services, currencies are crucial. To engage in foreign trade and business, foreign currency must be exchanged. Currency trading may be challenging and risky. Rogue traders find it challenging to affect the value of a currency because of the system's massive transaction flows. Investors that have access to interbank dealing can benefit from this system's contribution to market transparency.
The N551 per dollar bid made during the foreign exchange (FX) market auction held on Wednesday at the Investors and Exporters (I&E) forex window was the highest since the window's inception in 2017.
The majority of currency dealers who took part in the Wednesday foreign exchange market auction kept their bids within the range of N460.00 (low) and N551 (high) per dollar.
“They did that to enable them to get spot FX allocation (immediate FX allocation) in order to reduce finance cost for their business,” Ayodele Akinwunmi, relationship manager, corporate banking at FSDH Merchant Bank Limited, said.
The lack of naira caused by currency redesign led to currency substitution and increased demand for dollars, according to Uche Uwaleke, professor of capital markets at Nasarawa State University Keffi.
In the upcoming months, he predicted, inflation rates will rise.
Data from the FMDQ showed that at the I&E FX window, Nigeria's official foreign exchange market, the Naira strengthened by 0.11 percent as the dollar was quoted at N461.50 on Wednesday as opposed to the latest close of N462.00 on Tuesday.
Indicative of the amount of activity at the I&E window, the foreign exchange market turnover on Tuesday totaled $62.67 million.
The significant decline of the naira's exchange rate in the black market, according to Muda Yusuf, CEO of The Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise (CPPE), continues to be of concern.
He stated that the trend shouldn't be allowed to continue and that urgent action must be made to stop the decline and volatility.
These changes must not be overlooked. Both producers and other stakeholders who add value to the economy, such as consumers, are affected equally. An immediate revision of the current foreign exchange strategy is required.
My suggestion is that we should implement a flexible regime for exchange rate policy. Let me be clear: This is not a proposal for devaluation. Instead, it is a pricing system that takes the realities of supply and demand in the foreign exchange market into account. It is a model that is transparent, predictable, and sustainable. It is a regime of policy that would lessen uncertainty and encourage investor confidence. It is a framework for policy that would reduce arbitrage and discretion in the system for allocating foreign exchange, according to Yusuf.
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