BANKS IN UK

• Absa Bank Ltd
• American Express Bank Ltd
• Arab National Bank
• Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd
• Banco do Brasil SA
• Bangkok Bank Public Company Ltd
• Bank Hapoalim BM
• Bank Melli Iran
• Bank of America NA
• Bank of Baroda
• Bank of Ceylon
• Bank of China
• Bank of East Asia Ltd, The
• Bank of India
• Bank of Montreal
• Bank of New York, The
• Bank of Nova Scotia, The
• Bank of Taiwan Limited
• Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ Limited, The
• Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
• Canara Bank
• Chang Hwa Commercial Bank Ltd
• Chiba Bank Ltd, The
• CIMB Bank Berhad
• Citibank NA
• Commonwealth Bank of Australia
• Credit Suisse
• Deutsche Bank Trust Americas, London Branch
• DBS Bank Ltd
• Emirates Bank International PJSC
• First Commercial Bank
• Gulf International Bank BSC
• Habib Bank AG
• Habib Bank Ltd
• Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Ltd, The
• HSBC Bank USA NA
• Hua Nan Commercial Bank Ltd UBS AG
• IBB (Islamic Bank of Britain)
• ICICI Bank
• Industrial Bank of Korea United Overseas Bank Ltd
• Israel Discount Bank Ltd
• JPMorgan Chase Bank
• Korea Development Bank, The
• Korea Exchange Bank
• Macquarie Bank Ltd
• Malayan Banking Berhad
• Mashreqbank PSC
• Mega International Commercial Bank Co. Ltd
• Mellon Bank, NA
• Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation
• Mizrahi Tefahot Bank Limited
• Mizuho Corporate Bank Ltd
• Nacional Financiera SNC
• National Australia Bank Ltd
• National Bank of Abu Dhabi
• National Bank of Canada
• National Bank of Dubai PJSC, The
• Nedbank Ltd
• Norinchukin Bank, The
• Northern Trust Company, The
• Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Ltd
• Pt Bank Negara Indonesia (Persero) TBK
• Qatar National Bank SAQ
• Rafidain Bank (Provisional Liquidator Appointed)
• Riyad Bank
• RBC Dexia Investor Services Trust
• Royal Bank of Canada
• Samba Financial Group
• Shanghai Commercial Bank Ltd
• Shinhan Bank Company Limited
• State Bank of India
• State Street Bank and Trust Company
• Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co Ltd, The
• Syndicate Bank
• Toronto-Dominion Bank, The
• Turkiye Is Bankasi AS
• Union Bancaire Privée, UBP
• United National Bank Ltd
• Wells Fargo Bank, National Association
• Westpac Banking Corporation
• Woori Bank
• T.C. Ziraat Bankasi A.S.
• United Bank for Africa

BANKS IN INDIA

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The commercial banking structure in India consists of: Scheduled Commercial Banks and Unscheduled Banks. Scheduled commercial Banks constitute those banks which have been included in the Second Schedule of Reserve Bank of India(RBI) Act, 1934. RBI in turn includes only those banks in this schedule which satisfy the criteria laid down vide section 42 (6) (a) of the Act.

For the purpose of assessment of performance of banks, the Reserve Bank of India categorise them as public sector banks, old private sector banks, new private sector banks and foreign banks.

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forex

The foreign exchange market (currency, forex, or FX) is where currency trading takes place. It is where banks and other official institutions facilitate the buying and selling of foreign currencies. FX transactions typically involve one party purchasing a quantity of one currency in exchange for paying a quantity of another. The foreign exchange market that we see today started evolving during the 1970s when worldover countries gradually switched to floating exchange rate from their erstwhile exchange rate regime, which remained fixed as per the Bretton Woods system until 1971.
Presently, the FX market is one of the largest and most liquid financial markets in the world, and includes trading between large banks, central banks, currency speculators, corporations, governments, and other financial institutions. The average daily volume in the global foreign exchange and related markets is continuously growing. Traditional daily turnover was reported to be over US$3.2 trillion in April 2007 by the Bank for International Settlements. Since then, the market has continued to grow. According to Euromoney's annual FX Poll, volumes grew a further 41% between 2007 and 2008.
The purpose of FX market is to facilitate trade and investment. The need for a foreign exchange market arises because of the presence of multifarious international currencies such as US Dollars, Euros, Japanese yen, Pounds Sterling, etc., and the need for trading in such currencies

Market size and liquidity
The foreign exchange market is unique because of
its trading volumes,
the extreme liquidity of the market,
its geographical dispersion,
its long trading hours: 24 hours a day except on weekends (from 22:00 UTC on Sunday until 22:00 UTC Friday),
the variety of factors that affect exchange rates.
the low margins of profit compared with other markets of fixed income (but profits can be high due to very large trading volumes)
the use of leverage
As such, it has been referred to as the market closest to the ideal perfect competition, notwithstanding market manipulation by central banks. According to the Bank for International Settlements,[2] average daily turnover in global foreign exchange markets is estimated at $3.98 trillion. Trading in the world's main financial markets accounted for $3.21 trillion of this. This approximately $3.21 trillion in main foreign exchange market turnover was broken down as follows:
$1.005 trillion in spot transactions
$362 billion in outright forwards
$1.714 trillion in foreign exchange swaps
$129 billion estimated gaps in reporting
Of the $3.98 trillion daily global turnover, trading in London accounted for around $1.36 trillion, or 34.1% of the total, making London by far the global center for foreign exchange. In second and third places respectively, trading in New York accounted for 16.6%, and Tokyo accounted for 6.0%.[4] In addition to "traditional" turnover, $2.1 trillion was traded in derivatives.
Exchange-traded FX futures contracts were introduced in 1972 at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and are actively traded relative to most other futures contracts.
Several other developed countries also permit the trading of FX derivative products (like currency futures and options on currency futures) on their exchanges. All these developed countries already have fully convertible capital accounts. Most emerging countries do not permit FX derivative products on their exchanges in view of prevalent controls on the capital accounts. However, a few select emerging countries (e.g., Korea, South Africa, India—[1]; [2]) have already successfully experimented with the currency futures exchanges, despite having some controls on the capital account.