HSBC India Forex & Exchange Rate Today: TT Buying, TT Selling & Charges

HSBC India's USD to INR rate today is ₹93.82 for money coming in.

Every rate below comes from the sheet HSBC India published on 20 August 2026, refreshed here twice a day.

HSBC India publishes a new rate sheet every working day and revises it as the market moves. Money arriving from abroad is converted at its TT (telegraphic transfer) buying rate, which sits below the mid-market rate. That gap is the markup, and it is separate from GST on the conversion.

HSBC India's USD TT buying rate today is ₹93.82. If money is coming in to you, that is the rate that applies.

This sheet covers card rate. For larger transfers, HSBC quotes through the relationship team rather than the published sheet.

Source: HSBC India Foreign Exchange Rates, published by HSBC India itself. Rates are indicative and subject to change with market movements. The rate that applies is the one prevailing when your account is credited.

Which rate applies depends on what you are doing, not on which one you saw first.

HSBC India's TT buying rate for USD is ₹93.82, also written as TTBR, short for TT buying rate.

• Mid-market reference: ₹95.75
• HSBC India TT buying: ₹93.82
• Gap: 2.02%, about ₹19,300 on a USD 10,000 invoice

HSBC India's TT selling rate for USD is ₹97.48. This is what you pay when the bank sells you foreign currency, so it applies to money going out, not to export earnings coming in.

The gap between the two TT rates is ₹3.66 per dollar, or 3.9% of the buying rate. That spread is what the bank keeps.

HSBC India publishes these on the daily sheet it calls its "Foreign Exchange Rates". The currency-note columns, for cash over the counter, carry a different rate from the TT rate.

HSBC India publishes its own "Foreign Exchange Rates", and that document is the authority on the rate you will be given, not any figure quoted elsewhere. It is a web page the bank refreshes in place, so there is no file to keep.

Open it here: HSBC India Foreign Exchange Rates. The bank replaces it each working day, so the link always resolves to the current sheet, and the copy the figures above come from is dated 20 August 2026.

The exchange-rate margin is the largest cost, but not the only one. As of July 2026, the charges an exporter or business is likely to meet are set out below.

Receiving money looks close to free because the visible charge is small. The margin baked into the TT buying rate does the quiet work instead, and an intermediary bank can deduct its own fee before the money reaches HSBC.

Banks revise these schedules periodically, so verify the current numbers on HSBC's own remittance-charges page before you rely on a figure.

A large share of searches for HSBC forex charges are really about HSBC FX Solutions, its business foreign-exchange platform, so it is worth explaining.

FX Solutions lets a business book foreign-exchange deals online, from simple spot conversions to forward contracts and more complex hedging. It is aimed at companies that manage regular or large currency flows.

The rate and fees on FX Solutions depend on your relationship, volume, and the product you use, rather than a single published number. As with any bank channel, the cost sits in the margin over the interbank rate, so the way to judge it is still to compare the rate you are offered against the mid-market rate on the day.

Every foreign-exchange conversion in India attracts 18% GST. It is charged on a "value of supply" the RBI defines in slabs (in force since 1 July 2017), not on your full transfer amount, so it stays modest even on large sums. This is a statutory charge, not an HSBC fee.

The takeaway is simple. GST is a known, capped, and comparatively small cost. The exchange-rate margin is the variable you can actually influence.

The rate is only part of the bill. If money comes in from abroad every month, four other things cost you money or time. None of them are on HSBC India's rate sheet.

To be fair: this does not beat your bank at everything. If your current account, overdraft and trade limits are all with HSBC India, keeping everything in one place may matter more than any row above. This adds up when money comes in from abroad a few times a month, every month.

Say a client sends you USD 10,000 for a completed project. On the sheet HSBC India published on 20 August 2026, its TT buying rate was ₹93.82. The mid-market reference that day was ₹95.75.

• At the mid-market rate: 10,000 × 95.75 = ₹9,57,500
• At HSBC India's TT buying rate: 10,000 × 93.82 = ₹9,38,200
• Difference from the rate margin alone: ₹19,300, before GST and any certificate fee.

That ₹19,300 is the spread, not a fee you agreed to, and it recurs on every transfer settled at card rates.

One note on the reference: it is a daily rate, so the exact gap on your own transfer is the one on your credit advice.

A platform fee works differently. On the same invoice, Xflow's Growth plan charges 0.4% of the transfer value, about $40, with no markup on the mid-market rate, so the cost sits in a visible fee instead of inside the rate. Both that fee and the bank figures above are before GST, which applies either way.

There are three reliable ways to find the rate, in order of accuracy.

• HSBC's foreign-exchange rates page on its website, updated on working days. It lists TT and card rates per currency.
• Your account credit advice or FIRA, which records the exact rate applied to your specific transfer. This is the only rate that is truly yours.
• The branch or relationship manager, useful if you are moving larger volumes and want a preferential rate.

A quoted morning rate is only a guide. The rate that lands is the one live at the moment of credit, which is why the FIRA figure and the morning quote rarely match to the paisa. For compliance, the FIRA proves both the inward remittance and the rate applied.

A "forex rate" is the price of one currency in another at a given moment. Banks quote it against the interbank rate, the wholesale price at which large institutions trade, then add a margin before passing it to you.

HSBC is one of the biggest market makers in the USD/INR market, and it publishes TT and card rates for the main currencies daily. If you want the plain-English version of how these numbers are built, start with forex rates.

The rates HSBC shows are indicative. The rate that actually applies is the one prevailing when your account is credited, so a morning figure can shift by the time your transfer settles.

Other global banks with an India presence quote the same way. The deutsche bank forex rates guide shows how the same margin-on-interbank-rate structure applies at another multinational lender.

Smaller Indian banks follow the same approach, as the tamilnad mercantile bank forex rates guide shows.

TT stands for telegraphic transfer, the electronic movement of money between banks across borders. HSBC uses two TT rates and a card rate.

• TT buying rate: the rate at which HSBC buys foreign currency from you and pays out rupees. This applies when you receive an inward remittance from a client abroad.
• TT selling rate: the rate at which HSBC sells you foreign currency, used when you send money out.
• Card and currency rates: used for cash and card transactions, wider than the TT rates.

For anyone receiving export income, the TT buying rate is the number that matters. A telegraphic transfer is the default rail behind most bank-to-bank inward payments. Here is an illustrative snapshot (as of July 2026).

Search "USD to INR" and you see the mid-market rate, the midpoint between global buy and sell prices. That is the fair reference rate, and no bank pays it out in full. The difference comes from three layers.

Spread

HSBC applies a margin between the interbank rate and the rate it gives you, generally around 1% to 3% below mid-market on inward transfers, though it varies by day, currency, volume, and relationship. This is the foreign exchange markup, rarely shown as a line item.

Correspondent deductions

Inward wires can pass through an intermediary bank that takes its own cut before the money reaches HSBC, so the credited amount can be smaller than the sender's figure.

Market volatility

The rate moves through the day. Because your transfer settles at the prevailing rate, not the quoted one, timing changes the outcome.

The cleanest way to see the true price is to compare the applied rate against the live mid-market rate on the same day.

India's large private banks layer their pricing the same way, as the hdfc bank forex rates guide sets out.

Xflow is a cross-border payments platform built for Indian businesses and freelancers receiving money from abroad. The core difference is the reference rate.

HSBC marks up a hidden interbank rate. Xflow converts at the live mid-market rate and charges a transparent, visible fee, so you can see exactly what conversion costs. Its published pricing, as of July 2026, is below.

That local settlement comes through Xflow's receiving accounts, which give your business its own USD, EUR, or GBP account details instead of routing every payment through a bank's marked-up conversion.

You keep close to the mid-market payout minus a fee you can see, instead of losing the spread you never agreed to. On costs like these, Xflow customers typically see meaningfully lower FX costs than a bank spread, and the gap widens as volumes rise. Settlement is next business day (T+1), and each payment comes with an auto-issued eFIRA.

A few honest caveats belong here. If you run large, complex currency flows and use FX hedging or forward contracts, a full-service bank relationship and a tool like FX Solutions can be worth more than a tighter spot rate.

For one-off or very small transfers, a flat fee can outweigh the rate saving. Run your own numbers on a typical invoice first, and read how to reduce international payment fees to see where the real leakage sits. For regular mid-to-large export receipts, the platform is used for cross-border payments for service exporters.

This is the fear that stops most exporters from switching, and it is worth addressing head-on. Receiving through a regulated platform does not break your regulatory trail.

Xflow holds final RBI Payment Aggregator - Cross Border (PA-CB) authorisation for both exports and imports (as of February 2026), works with AD-1 banks, and auto-issues an eFIRA for each payment.

Your purpose codes, GST refund workflow, and downstream reporting continue as before, and the bank FIRC route remains available. Compliance stays intact; the paperwork simply becomes less manual.

HSBC India publishes its rate sheet every working day and revises it intraday. On 20 August 2026 its USD TT buying rate was ₹93.82, about 2.02% below a daily mid-market reference rate of ₹95.75.

If you receive export income, the TT buying rate is the one that applies to you. Check it on the sheet, then check your Foreign Inward Remittance Advice (FIRA) to see what rate actually applied.