British Pound / US Dollar
Nicknamed "Cable" after the 19th-century transatlantic telegraph cable used to transmit its rate, it is one of the oldest and most liquid currency pairs. Quotes US dollars per British pound.
No single covered venue: this asset trades over the counter or across many venues at once — Global interbank FX (OTC). We name where it trades rather than pointing at a page that does not exist. The venues we do cover.
1.3247 USD per GBP
as of 2026-10-13 · refreshed 2026-10-13 18:17 UTC · source: ECB reference rates — used under that provider’s terms, not our CC BY 4.0 · reference value, not a real-time tick
- Symbol
- GBP/USD
- Type
- Currency
- Category
- FX major pair
- Quote currency
- USD
- Primary venue
- Global interbank FX (OTC) (no single covered venue — see the note below)
- Issuer
- —
- Currency pair
- GBP 826 / USD 840 ISO 4217 — the two sides have codes, the pair does not
- Identifier
- No identifier standard exists for a currency pair. The honest identifiers are the two ISO 4217 codes below; a single code for the pair itself does not exist, and the instrument identifiers that appear to fit are for spot contracts rather than the rate.
Approximate reference values from public sources · seed-0.7 · marketcap-1 · 2026-08-30 · not real-time. See data & methodology.
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