Foreign Exchange
Exchange Rates
Currency band
Exchange rate
Exchange rate regime
Fixed exchange rate
Floating exchange rate
Linked exchange rate
Markets
Foreign exchange market
Futures exchange
Products
Currency
Currency future
Non-deliverable forward
Forex swap
Currency swap
Foreign exchange option
See also
Bureau de change
In finance, the exchange rate (also known as the foreign-exchange rate, forex rate or FX rate) between two currencies specifies how much one currency is worth in terms of the other. For example an exchange rate of 123 Japanese yen (JPY, ¥) to the United States dollar at RMB 8.2768 to $1. China was not the only country to do this; from the end of World War II until 1970, Western European countries all maintained fixed exchange rates with