£ · Europe
British Pound Sterling (GBP)
Sterling is one of the oldest currencies still in circulation and one of the most heavily traded, despite the size of the economy behind it — London's role as a trading centre keeps the pound liquid far beyond the UK's trade volumes.
Reference reading
0.7447GBP per 1 USD
Read 10 Nov 2026, 15:30 UTC, source last published 10 Nov 2026, 00:00 UTC, quoted against USD.
166 currencies in this reading
One GBP buys
- USD
- 1.3428
- EUR
- 1.1985
- CHF
- 1.1007
- JPY
- 212.1959
- AUD
- 1.9444
Where the British Pound Sterling circulates
It also carries a structural feature worth knowing if you display it: the pound has no fixed relationship with any other currency, so a GBP figure is exposed to moves that have nothing to do with the underlying price of the goods.
- Retail pricing in the UK and the Crown Dependencies, which use their own local issues of the pound.
- Cross-border services invoiced in sterling, where the currency is chosen for the counterparty rather than the location.
- A liquid alternative to the euro for European trade that is priced outside the euro area.
How it is quoted, and what to watch
Format sterling with the GBP currency code rather than a literal £, so the symbol's position follows the reader's locale. Three-letter code and symbol are both returned by the catalogue endpoint, and the code is the one to store.
Reading GBP from the API
Ask for GBP as the base and every quote in the response is re-expressed against it — the reading, the catalogue and the account balance all arrive together.
Crosses are the quotient of two published quotes, so a pair you need but we do not list is still one division away.
curl · re-quote the catalogue against this currency
curl -s "https://fiatagent.base44.app/api/v1/rates?base=GBP" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $FIAT_AGENT_KEY"GBP questions, answered
Is GBP the same as sterling?
In practice, yes — GBP is the ISO code for pound sterling. Local banknotes in Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man float at par with it but are not legal tender in the UK.
How is GBP quoted against the dollar?
As dollars per pound, so a higher figure means a stronger pound. Multiply a sterling amount by the quote to express it in dollars.
Quote GBP without a subscription.
The open endpoint needs no key. A key opens with a 5,000-request signup bonus and reaches every stored reading by date.