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A corporate FX transaction involves a bank, on behalf of their corporate client, paying for the currency it sold at an agreed rate to another bank and receiving a different currency in return for the funds being cleared and settled in the local clearings.

A Spot Transaction refers to an exchange of currencies at the prevailing market rate. For most currencies, a spot transaction consists of a two day settlement period but for the Canadian dollar (CAD) and Mexican peso (MXN) a spot transaction is settled in one business day.

Currency Options are contracts that grant the buyer of the option the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell underlying currency at a specified exchange rate during a specified period of time. For this right, the buyer pays premium to the seller of the option.

The settlement of Forex transactions by CCIL started from November 8, 2002. This segment accepts the inter-bank Cash, Tom, Spot and Forward USD-INR transactions for settlement through a process of multilateral netting. The multilateral netting system provides a netting benefit of well over 95%.

Trading the EUR/USD currency pair is also known as trading the "euro." The value of the EUR/USD pair is quoted as 1 euro per x U.S. dollars. For example, if the pair is trading at 1.50, it means it takes 1.5 U.S. dollars to buy 1 euro.

For those traders who want to take their contract to expiration, there are two ways an FX contract can be settled: cash settlement or physical delivery of the currency. For many FX futures, the last trading day is generally the second business day prior to the third Wednesday of the contract month.

Retail CBDCs are issued to the general public. Under this model, consumers are able to own a CBDC in a wallet or account and use it for payments. This type of CBDC would serve as a public digital banking option that anyone can use.

Your settlement currency is the currency in which your funds will be deposited into your business bank account. Depending on your account setup, you may only be able to settle in your home currency, or you may have the option to settle in multiple currencies.

Trading the USD/CAD currency pair is also known as trading the "loonie," which is the name for the Canadian one dollar coin, which depicts its namesake bird. The USD/CAD is also one of the most liquid and actively traded pairs in the forex market.

It is a type of settlement risk that occurs in a foreign exchange settlement where one of the parties of the transaction would send the currency that they sold, but they do not receive the currency that they bought.