Overzealous forex trading against the baht cost one investment bank a $150 million yankee bond mandate. Or so the rumours had it. Happily for JP Morgan, the rumours turned out to be false, but they served to concentrate the minds of banks and trading houses that dared to mess with the Bank of Thailand as it fought to protect its currency. Although it finally caved in on July 2 and floated the baht, the central bank was determined not to let speculators get the upper hand: along with the conventional armoury, it employed a few arm-twisting techniques.
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