20-Jan-2015
The Foreign Exchange Benchmarks Final Report (the Report) of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) was approved at the FSB's 17-18 September 2014 Plenary meeting and published by the FSB on 30 September 2014. The Report, which references the IOSCO Principles for Financial Benchmarks Final Report issued in July 2013, lays out a series of recommendations relating to foreign exchange benchmarks, including recommendations for market behavior around the use of such benchmarks to improve market structure and conduct worldwide. The global foreign exchange committees recognise the importance of the work that the FSB has done on this topic and are working together to consider how best to incorporate the relevant guidance recommended in the Report into our best practices documentation. We strongly encourage all foreign exchange market participants to review the Report in its entirety and to ensure that these and other best practices published by the foreign exchange committees guide the behavior of participants in foreign exchange markets.
The following foreign exchange committees collaborated in the drafting of this statement:
Australian Foreign Exchange Committee
Canadian Foreign Exchange Committee
ECB's Foreign Exchange Contact Group
Hong Kong Treasury Markets Association
London Foreign Exchange Joint Standing Committee
New York Foreign Exchange Committee
Singapore Foreign Exchange Market Committee
Tokyo Foreign Exchange Market Committee
18-Jan-2012
PDFThe Tokyo Foreign Exchange Market Committee and Sub-Committee on NDF have been investigating and examining to establish a standardized rule for calculating NDF fixing rates against JPY, which currently does not have a concrete trading custom, aiming to stimulate the foreign exchange market in Tokyo.
For further deployment of this project, we would like to receive comments and information regarding our proposal below. Your feedback will be an important part of our proposal. Please refer to the forth section for contact information.
In response to the increase of NDF transactions in the Tokyo market, we propose the following procedures to calculate NDF fixing rates against JPY.
① Mean rate published on the "JPNU" page on Thomson Reuters at 9AM Tokyo time on the following business day.
② Mean rate of WMR Closing (GMT16:00)
(*1) Asian Currencies: Currencies with fixing rate announcements between 9am-5pm Tokyo time
(*2) Non-Asian Currencies: Currencies with fixing rate announcements outside of the time range above(*1)
This proposal by the Tokyo Foreign Exchange Market Committee is aimed to achieve the current best practice upon following its guidelines to improve the utility of the Tokyo market, including its administrative procedures, by standardizing participant needs, trading conditions, and trading procedures. The proposed practice is not aimed to restrict market participants, and can be improved and enhanced depending on any changes to transaction conditions, if recognized as necessary to reflect the opinion of market participants.
(*3)To draft and publish, as appropriate, recommendations and opinions on codes of conduct, and model agreements, relating to transactions in the foreign exchange market and other related international financial markets. In drafting such documents, the Committee shall strive to maintain consistency with those in overseas markets, equitable trading environment, and enhanced competition in the market. It should be noted that interbank market participants are not bound by any of the recommendations and opinions, and model agreements.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
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