# Professor Richard Levich is quoted in a feature story on the costs associated with converting currency

1 Faculty News August 5, 2018 ![Wall Street Journal logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/wsjlogo.jpg?itok=5Qt0z3WX)>

Excerpt from [The Wall Street Journal](https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-banks-may-not-be-the-best-place-to-convert-currency-1533520981) -- "'Most Americans have limited familiarity with how foreign-exchange markets work,' says [Richard Levich](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/richard-levich), professor of finance and international business at New York University’s Stern School of Business."

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