Finance
- Foreign exchange markets, where money in one currency is exchanged for another
- Exchange rate, the price for which one currency is exchanged for another
- Foreign exchange reserves, holdings of other countries' currencies
- Foreign exchange controls, controls imposed by a government on the purchase/sale of foreign currencies
- Retail foreign exchange platform, speculative trading of foreign exchange by individuals using electronic trading platforms
- Foreign exchange risk, arises from the change in price of one currency against another
- International trade, the exchange of goods and services across national boundaries
- Foreign exchange company, a broker that offers currency exchange and international payments
- Bureau de change, a business whose customers exchange one currency for another
- Currency pair, the quotation of the relative value of a currency unit against the unit of another currency in the foreign exchange market
- Digital currency exchanger, market makers which exchange fiat currency for electronic money
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