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Some giant entities also take position purely to make profit out of foreign exchange
activity.
As majority of the deals in wholesale market is between the banks, it is called as
Interbank market.
Role Of Brokers
Commercial Banks are the major player in the market
1. Generally used by the brokers to seek the information about the market efficiently.
2. This bank deal with each other as well as giant bank.
3. Brokers are not market makers they act as middle man between the two market makers.
4. Brokers provide the information to market making banks about prices at which they are
firm buyers and sellers in a pair of currencies.
2. Retail Market:
Retail market is the market in which the travelers and tourists exchange one currency for
another in the form of currency notes or travelers cheques. Total turnover and transactions
size is very small.
STRUCTURE OF FOREIGN EXCHANGE MARKET IN INDIA
It may be broadly said to have three segments or layers.
First Layer:- Consists of the central bank RBI and Authorized Dealer(ADs).Ads are
mostly commercial banks and Financial Institution such as IDBI,ICICI ..etc.
Second Layer:- is the interbank segment in which Ads deal with each other.
Third Layer:- is in which Ads deal with their corporate customer.
In retail market in addition to Ads there are moneychangers who are allowed to deal
in foreign currencies .
Fully fledged money changers are allowed to deal in foreign currencies.