Commercial Corporations
a.k.a. Corporates
Ordinary businesses that trade currencies because they buy and sell abroad, not to speculate.
In plain English
Ordinary businesses that trade currencies because they buy and sell abroad, not to speculate.
When a German carmaker sells cars in the US, it gets dollars and needs euros. Commercial corporations like this swap currencies to pay suppliers, bring home profits and hedge future costs.
Their flows are huge and mostly not about price predictions, but they still move the market, especially around month-end and big deals.
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