A short course · included with terminal access

How your bank prices your FX

You are not going to learn to trade. You are going to learn to read a price — well enough that the next time a bank quotes you, you know which parts of the number they can defend and which parts they cannot.

21 parts Written for controllers & CFOs No maths beyond arithmetic

Twenty-one parts, read one at a time, each with the arithmetic worked through, and a question in the middle of each so you can tell whether it landed. Here is what each one argues, in its own words.

Part 01

What you are paying for

Every FX price is a reference mid plus a spread — and that spread is the sum of six specific things, five of which are real costs and one of which is the bank's profit.

  • market-making
  • back-office
  • credit (CVA)
  • funding (FVA)
  • capital
  • margin
  • why a small ticket costs more in bps
Parts 1a – 1c

One instrument at a time

A part each for spot, forwards and swaps — every one with a full worked calculation, a lifecycle diagram and a breakdown of where its spread comes from.

  • spot: the one real risk
  • forwards: carry is arithmetic, not a fee
  • deliverable vs non-deliverable
  • swap: four steps price any of them
  • CLS and settlement risk
Part 02

How a bank arrives at your number

Banks are suppliers with real costs and a legitimate margin — but in a market where prices are negotiated one at a time, what a buyer knows measurably affects what they pay.

  • trader vs salesperson
  • what 10,087 companies actually paid
  • one dealer, 17.4 pips. Five, 1.2
  • credit explains under 2 pips
  • FX Global Code Principle 14
Part 03 · three inside

What to actually do about it

The part with the money in it. Twenty moves, what each one is worth, and — for the ones that need your bank — the sentence to send, arranged by when in your day each applies.

  • batch, net, stop double-converting
  • audit your standing instructions
  • basis points, never a pip schedule
  • spot and points, quoted separately
  • the pre-hedging opt-out nobody asks for
  • build your own VET
  • close the scope loopholes in a written schedule
  • a historical-rate rollover is a hidden loan
Part 04 · eight inside

Your market, specifically

Which reference rates matter where, why one market prices differently from the one next door, and what to keep an eye on — then a part each for every market the terminal quotes.

  • the majors: the 4pm London fix
  • Mexico: FIX · TIIE 28 · CLS
  • Brazil: PTAX · CDI · cupom cambial · VET
  • China: CNY vs CNH
  • Colombia: TRM · IBR
  • Chile: Dólar Observado · ICP · UF
  • Peru: SBS fixing · BCRP
  • Hong Kong · Singapore · India · Korea

The rest is in the terminal

The course comes with your terminal access.

It is not sold separately and there is no signup form. If you have a terminal login, the full course is already there — top right, next to the export button. If you do not, that is a conversation rather than a checkout.

  • All twenty-one parts, with worked calculations and twenty-seven knowledge checks
  • Twenty money-saving moves, with the sentence to send for each
  • Every source behind it — central banks, the FX Global Code, peer-reviewed work
  • Live mid across sixteen pairs, and swaps in seventeen currencies
  • The same six-part build-up, run on your own trade
  • Excel export with live formulas, not pasted values

Educational material on how FX pricing is constructed. Worked figures in the course run on research-backed placeholder constants pending desk calibration and are illustrative, not a quotation. Not tax advice, investment advice, or a recommendation to transact.