Story: Banking and finance

Foreign exchange dealer (4th of 4)

Foreign exchange dealer

Banks trade New Zealand currency for the currency of other countries. Foreign exchange dealers work full-time on such trading, which can allow substantial profits even on very small margins because of the high turnover. This dealer was working at the National Bank in 1987.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PAColl-7327)
Reference: EP/1987/2719/5
Photograph by Ross Giblin

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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David Tripe, 'Banking and finance - Working in banks', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/24658/foreign-exchange-dealer (accessed 30 March 2024)

Story by David Tripe, published 11 Mar 2010