Foreign exchange settlement and sale by banks refers to the foreign exchange settlement and sale business handled by banks for customers and themselves, including performance and option exercise data, excluding inter-bank transaction data.
The statistical time of bank settlement and sale of foreign exchange is when the exchange of RMB and foreign exchange occurs.
Foreign exchange settlement refers to the sale of foreign exchange to foreign exchange designated banks, while foreign exchange sale refers to the sale of foreign exchange designated banks to foreign exchange users.
The difference between settlement and sale is the net difference between settlement and sale.
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The balance formed by the bank’s settlement and sale of foreign exchange will be traded through the interbank foreign exchange market, which is one of the main sources of change, but does not equal the increase or decrease of foreign exchange reserves in the same period.