Get exchange rates against the U.S. dollar (USD). Rates for all countries, including Canadian Dollar, Yen, Euro, British Pound, Swiss Franc, Rand and more. Easily and interactively generates a cheat sheet with conversions from US Dollars to British Pounds [1 USD = 0.768909 GBP]. Users can specify some  17 Jul 2019 Governments however still viewed fixed exchange rates as desirable, and so in 1940 the pound was pegged to the dollar at a fixed rate of