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Nearly-Perfect Swap

An interest rate swap in which a fixed rate is exchanged into a low, off-market floating rate linked to a…

Short Term Interest Rate Futures

An interest rate futures contract in which the underlying is typically the three-month interest rate on a floating rate such as LIBOR, EURIBOR, etc. Some firms…

Knock-Out Cap

A barrier cap whereby protection ceases to exist or deactivates only if the floating interest rate crosses the barrier on…

Range Accrual Bond

A bond that pays interest only if the floating interest rate (such as LIBOR) or aninterest rate option underlying a…

Currency-Protected Swap

A cross currency basis swap which doesn’t involve currency conversion. For example, assume short-term interest rates in Japan are very…

STIR Option

An acronym for short-term interest rate option. By definition, it is an interest rate option in which the underlying is...

Cap Floater Swap

An interest rate swap in which both legs are based on floating rates. One leg is capped, that is, the…

General Swap 

An interest rate swap in which there is, in contrast to a regular swap (vanilla swap), no dependency between its…

Leveraged Floored FRN 

A floored FRN in which the minimum coupon that is linked to the underlying floating rate (short-term rate, such as...

SLS

It stands for single LIBOR stream; a single payment of periodical/ resetting cash flows associated with, or calculated based on,...