Richard Melson

September 2004

Triennial Central Bank Survey of Foreign Exchange and Derivatives Market Activity

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Ref no: A18/2004

24 September 2004

Preliminary global data from the
Triennial Central Bank Survey of Foreign Exchange and Derivatives Market Activity to be released under embargo on BIS website

The preliminary global data from the latest Triennial Central Bank Survey of Foreign Exchange and Derivatives Market Activity carried out in April 2004 will be released under embargo to media today, Friday 24 September at 17.00 Central European Summer Time, via a password-protected page on the BIS website.

Media will be able to access the preliminary global data in PDF format from 17.00 on the following internet page:

http://www.bis.org/embargo

You will be prompted for a user ID and password. These are:

User ID: ifsembpubl

Password: gv8lh52

The user ID and password are valid only for this release of the above-mentioned data from the Triennial Central Bank Survey and will be changed at the next release.

These details are STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL. A breach of the embargo or disclosure of the details above will result in exclusion from future releases of embargoed information.

The embargo will be lifted at 17.00 Central European Summer Time on Tuesday 28 September 2004.