Understanding Forex Market Interventions by Central Banks
An advanced course on central bank currency intervention as it actually works, not as it is headlined. Built for HNIs, family office investors, active currency and commodity traders and experienced angels who already understand what moves the rupee and now want to understand the hand that leans on it. Covers why central banks intervene, the full instrument set (spot, forwards, NDFs, buy/sell swaps and verbal guidance), sterilisation and its liquidity consequences, the portfolio balance and signalling channels, reserve adequacy, and the politics of the US Treasury monitoring list. Goes deep on the RBI's managed float, its forward book and swap windows, with case studies from 2013 and 2022, then compares the SNB, Japan's Ministry of Finance, the PBoC and the Hong Kong currency board. Closes with how to read RBI data, detect intervention in real time, price and trade around it, and hedge offshore allocations when the RBI is in the market.