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Foreign exchange dealer

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Foreign exchange dealer

Banks trade New Zealand currency for the currency of other countries. Foreign exchange dealers work full-time on such trading, which can allow substantial profits even on very small margins because of the high turnover. This dealer was working at the National Bank in 1987.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1987/2719/5

by Ross Giblin

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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David Tripe, Banking and finance – Working in banks, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/24658/foreign-exchange-dealer (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by David Tripe, published 26 February 2010.