Currency Forward Contract

bigwilly

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Question for anyone who knows the answer :).

If Company A has a forward contract expiring 7/31 to buy GBP1,000,000 for $1,200,000 USD for currency hedging does the company actually have to wire the USD at expiration or if there is a loss/gain on contract can Company A just wire the loss or get wired the gain? Or would this only be valid for a Non-Deliverable contract? For instance, would Company A have to wire say $10 to the bank and then the bank wire say $8 to Company A...or could Company A just simply wire $2 to the bank?? Thanks.
 
In a "plain vanilla" forward contract, the currencies are physically exchanged. To answer your question directly: Yes, the company would wire the 1.2MM USD to the fx dealer, and receive the GBP 1MM back.

If you wanted to only net settle the gain or loss, you could always just book an offsetting spot trade with the dealer at expiry of yor forward.
 
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