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IMM Dates

The trade on maturity dates of money market futures and money market futures options which are set by futures and options exchanges. These...

Flavored Swap

A swap that has exotic or complex structure whereby it is distinguished in its key underlying economic variables from basic swaps. Flavored swaps...

Snowball Swap

A structured swap which consists of a funding leg and a coupon payment stream, whereby the coupon payment made on a given date is...

Off-Market Swap

Typically, an interest rate swap whose fixed rate payment substantially deviates from currently prevailing coupon rates on debt instruments with similar times...

Basket Swap

A floating-for-floating swap whose first floating rate leg is derived from the returns on a basket of underlying assets, such as equities, commodities, bonds, or even swaps. The...

Swap BPV

The basis point value (BPV) of a swap is the amount by which the swap's value changes in response to a change of one basis...

Swap Coupon

The fixed-rate of interest on the fixed-rate leg of an interest rate swap or a currency swap (or any similar structures). More specifically, swap...

Short a Swap

The position of the fixed-rate receiver (who is also the floating-rate payer) on an interest rate swap. In a plain vanilla swap, the short side trades a...

Swap Convexity

The change in the dollar value of one basis point of a swap (swap DV01) in response to one basis point parallel shift in...

Covariance Swap

A covariance forward contract of two underlying prices/rates. This swap pays the excess of the realized covariance between two assets (such as currencies) over a constant...