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1994 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Swap Markets

Author : Charles Errington

Published in: Financial Engineering

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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An interest rate swap is an agreement between two counterparties to exchange interest payments and receipts on a number of occasions during a specified period. It is equivalent to two simultaneous cash transactions — each counterparty is, in effect, lending to and borrowing from the other the same capital amount over the same period.

Metadata
Title
Swap Markets
Author
Charles Errington
Copyright Year
1994
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13268-3_11