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title: The Foreign Currency Risk of International Remittances
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/7600423/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-10-16
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 7600423
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7600423
featured: 2026-10-16
citations: unknown
topic: Trading, Microstructure & Execution
---


# The Foreign Currency Risk of International Remittances

Exchange-rate hedging costs explain about 16 percent of remittance fees, especially in thin currency markets, and induce operators to adjust variable fees while raising exit risk.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7600423
- Identifier: SSRN 7600423
- Released: 2026-10-12
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 135 (2026-10-16): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2026-10-16/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Trading, Microstructure & Execution
- Authors: Leonardo Flori, Nicola Limodio

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