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Global Finance selects the leaders in the $1.5 trillion global foreign exchange market. * By Gordon Platt and Adam Rombel

The global foreign exchange market, the world's biggest financial market, is constantly and rapidly changing amid worldwide economic upheaval, the march of globalization, ongoing consolidation in the financial services industry, and evolving technologies and product offerings.

With global daily turnover of $1.5 trillion, the currency market never sleeps. For 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the action follows the sun across the world's time zones.

A Special Editorial Report: Foreign Exchange Forecasts-A New Kina of the Hill?

Key currency executives of the World's Best Foreign Exchange Banks, as chosen by Global Finance editors in 2002, preview the critical issues facing the foreign exchange market in 2003.

With the dollar limping along behind the once-lowly euro in recent weeks, the leading minds in the foreign exchange industry are grappling with the question of whether or not the greenback has entered a long period of decline.