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30 July 2013
Exchange Rate Perspectives: FX and the Financial Transaction Tax
transaction. For example, where a dealer provides liquidity to a financial entity and
simultaneously hedges the same transaction with a third counterpany, afl three
entities are likely to be caught.
The FX industry would be impacted by this cascade effect. FX is an intermediated
market, with several potential stages between the client and ultimate liquidity
provider. These stages have evolved in response to demand for tighter pricing and
a more efficient market. For example, in the case of an NDF transaction, a dealer is
able to provide a better price for a client by being able to hedge that transaction
through an offsetting one with a third counterpany. By discouraging this kind of
intermediation, the FTI. may result in dealers providing wider prices for clients.
By definition many FX transactions also contain multiple legs, each of may be
subject to the FTT. For example, an FX swap is composed of two forward
transactions, meaning that the FTT could be charged twice. FX transactions can
also involve very large notionals, which would increase gross costs.
As illustrated by the diagram below, a headline rate of 1bp translates into a much
higher effective rate once the multiple steps of a typical FX transaction is taken into
account. In this case, the final cost for a USD/iNFI NDF potentially increases up to
8bp, meaning the absolute cost for a USD 10.000,000 notional becomes US()
8,000.
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