Business, Legal & Accounting Glossary
Traditionally the exchange of one security for another to change the maturities of a bond portfolio or the quality of the issues in a stock or bond portfolio, or because investment objectives have changed.
Currency swaps involve the purchase/sale of a currency in the spot market against the simultaneous purchase/sale of the same amount of the currency in the forward market.
An interest rate swap is an arrangement in which two parties agree to exchange periodic interest payments, at agreed intervals, over an agreed period, but without any principal being paid. The most common and simplest deal involves one party paying a fixed rate of interest and the other paying a floating rate.
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