Exchange-traded currency derivatives thrived in India for over a decade, fueled by retail investors and proprietary traders. Then the central bank broke up the party.
Until recently, traders were betting freely on the rupee’s rise and fall without holding underlying assets. A rule that allowed transactions of up to $100 million without providing proof of an actual foreign-currency exposure had been interpreted by them as tacit acceptance of speculative trade by the authorities.
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