Currency contracts on the cards in India

05 Apr 2007

FX futures are part of a plan for the opening up of India's currency market, recently proposed by a government advisory committee.

The committee wants to see India achieve capital account convertibility within 18 months, and on-exchange derivatives trading by domestic and foreign institutional investors (FIIs) is seen as being a crucial...

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