SEOUL: South Korea and Australia have signed a currency swap deal worth US$4.5bil, Seoul’s central bank said, in a move to boost trades and help curb currency swings.
The deal – signed by the countries’ central bank governors – allows the two nations to purchase and repurchase each other’s currency of up to five trillion won, the central Bank of Korea said in a statement.
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