Exchange Equalization Account
An exchange equalization account holds official reserves used to manage currency stability, intervention, or foreign exchange policy.
Foreign-exchange intervention terms covering official market operations, reserve accounts, and sterilization choices.
FX Intervention and Reserve Accounts explains exchange-rate measures, real and nominal currency values, currency regimes, pegs, floats, convertibility, devaluation, monetary standards, and capital controls used in finance.
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| Area | Use it for |
|---|---|
| Exchange Equalization Account | An exchange equalization account holds official reserves used to manage currency stability, intervention, or foreign exchange policy. |
| Intervention in Foreign Exchange Markets | Foreign exchange intervention uses official purchases, sales, or communication to influence currency values or market conditions. |
| Intra-Marginal Intervention | Intra-marginal intervention occurs within a currency band’s permitted range before the exchange rate reaches its intervention limit. |
| Sterilization | This involves completely offsetting the impact of foreign exchange interventions on the money supply. |
| Unsterilized Foreign Exchange Intervention | Unsterilized foreign exchange intervention changes both the exchange rate and domestic money supply because no offsetting operation is made. |
| Unsterilized Intervention | Unsterilized intervention is official foreign exchange action that is not offset by domestic liquidity-absorbing operations. |
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An exchange equalization account holds official reserves used to manage currency stability, intervention, or foreign exchange policy.
Foreign exchange intervention uses official purchases, sales, or communication to influence currency values or market conditions.
Intra-marginal intervention occurs within a currency band's permitted range before the exchange rate reaches its intervention limit.
This involves completely offsetting the impact of foreign exchange interventions on the money supply.
Unsterilized foreign exchange intervention changes both the exchange rate and domestic money supply because no offsetting operation is made.
Unsterilized intervention is official foreign exchange action that is not offset by domestic liquidity-absorbing operations.