CIGI Lecture – Servers, cables and the shark attacks: why currencies are traded where they're traded

A large share of foreign exchange transactions worldwide take place not in the countries issuing the currencies that are traded but in London, Tokyo and New York. The question is why. The answer is the submarine fiber-optic cables, sheathed in kevlar to protect them from shark attacks, that were laid on the ocean floor starting in 1989.

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