interest rate swap

If called, this would still leave the issuer with the interest rate swap.

The discussion of pricing interest rate swaps illustrated an important point.

"Just give us a billion of them interest rate swaps, so we can be off," the thrift managers finally say.

This is known as an interest rate swap.

Interest rate swaps are also very popular due to the arbitrage opportunities they provide.

The thrift managers clearly don't know what an interest rate swap is; they look at each other and shrug.

But interest rate swaps can be especially toxic when interest rates rise.

Financial futures are extensively used in the hedging of interest rate swaps.

THE wonderful world of interest rate swaps has largely been hidden from public view.

They recommend that the thrift managers buy a billion dollars' worth of interest rate swaps.

The majority were interest rate swaps or options.

Interest rate swaps are a relatively recent innovation, but they are in widespread use.

The financial instruments traded include government bonds, interest rate swaps and futures contracts.

Interest rate swaps are commonly used for both hedging and speculating.

Today, interest rate swaps are used to hedge against or speculate on changes in interest rates.

The most common type of swap is a "plain Vanilla" interest rate swap.

"A lot of the securities trading and interest rate swaps and options are very important product lines for this business."

Swap rates are calculated using the fixed rate leg of interest rate swaps.

The transactions, some of which have taken a long time to unravel, include guarantees on property leases and interest rate swaps.

Interest rate swaps were originally created to allow multi-national companies to evade exchange controls.

Bankers say they can often earn more from specialized transactions such as interest rate swaps than from direct loans.

Interest rate swaps are basically transactions in which two parties agree to exchange interest payments on their debts.

Interest rate swaps, swap curves, swaptions - the veil only thickens with time.

Another currency swap structure is to combine the exchange of loan principal, as above, with an interest rate swap.

For example a typical Bermudian swaption might confer the opportunity to enter into an interest rate swap.