NDF interventions in Latin America

Elisa Vilorio Painter

Were Latin American central banks successful in their use of non-deliverable forwards as a key FX intervention tool?

While foreign exchange (FX) spot trading activities remain the dominant intervention tool in the FX markets for most central banks in Latin America, the use of FX derivatives as an FX policy tool has increased over time. Figure 6.1 shows yearly cumulative interventions in the spot and derivatives markets as a percentage of GDP for a selected sample of Latin American central banks, namely: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay and Peru. Using figures from

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