About the AUD/XPF rate
The AUD/XPF rate is how many XPF one Australian dollar buys. It moves constantly with interest-rate expectations, commodity prices and global risk sentiment - see what moves the rate. Tradergy shows the mid-market reference rate and does not forecast where it’s heading. For the 52-week highs and lows and a daily table, see the AUD/XPF rate history.
The other directions of this rate: the reverse rate, XPF → AUD, is on the receiving CFP franc view, and sending Australian dollars to the French Pacific is covered on the AUD → XPF transfer page. Every AUD pair sits on the convert hub, and to work in more than one currency at once there is the currency converter.
The institution that issues the CFP franc
France runs two overseas issuing institutes, and the Code monetaire et financier constitutes them differently. Article L721-5 assigns the service of monetary issue for the CFP franc to the Institut d'emission d'Outre-Mer, which the Code establishes as a public establishment. Article L721-7 sets up the parallel institute for the euro-using overseas departments as something else entirely: the Institut d'emission des departements d'Outre-Mer is a simplified joint-stock company whose capital is held by the Banque de France, acting in its name, on its behalf and under its authority.
So the CFP franc's issuer is not a Banque de France subsidiary, and the sub-section governing it contains no provision for Banque de France capital ownership. Article L721-4 puts the privilege of monetary issue with France itself, in New Caledonia, French Polynesia and the Wallis and Futuna islands, and fixes the parity by decree; article D721-2 sets that parity, in thousands of units, at 8.38 euros.
The three collectivities do have seats at the table. The Code provides for three people representing New Caledonia, French Polynesia and Wallis and Futuna on the Institute's supervisory board, with the New Caledonian and French Polynesian representatives appointed under those territories' own statutes and the third by joint decree.
The coins changed recently and completely. The Institute records a new series of 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 and 200 franc coins put into circulation on 1 September 2021, and states that from 1 December 2022 only the new coins are accepted in shops and banks. The one and two franc pieces are gone.
A rounding rule follows from that in the Code itself. Article L721-6 requires cash payments in CFP francs to be rounded to the nearest five francs, with amounts ending in one, two, six or seven rounded down and those ending in three, four, eight or nine rounded up, and provides that no coin may be issued below five francs. The banknotes, four denominations introduced in 2014, each differ in length by six millimetres so they can be told apart by touch.
Sources: Code monetaire et financier, Livre VII, articles L721-4 to L721-6 (Legifrance) · Code monetaire et financier, article D721-2 (Legifrance) · Code monetaire et financier, articles L721-7 and following (Legifrance) · Code monetaire et financier, the Institut d'emission d'Outre-Mer sub-section (Legifrance) · Code monetaire et financier, regulatory section on the Institut d'emission d'Outre-Mer (Legifrance) · Institut d'emission d'Outre-Mer, Les pieces et billets en circulation