History
Many businesses were unconcerned with and did not manage foreign exchange risk under the Bretton Woods system of international monetary order. It wasn't until the onset of floating exchange rates following the collapse of the Bretton Woods system that firms perceived an increasing risk from exchange rate fluctuations and began trading an increasing volume of financial derivatives in an effort to hedge their exposure. The outbreak of currency crises in the 1990s and early 2000s, such as the Mexican peso crisis, Asian currency crisis, 1998 Russian financial crisis, and the Argentine peso crisis, substantial losses from foreign exchange have led firms to pay closer attention to foreign exchange risk.
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