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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...

Alpha Transport

A method of transporting the active return (alpha) among asset classes by separating and transporting uncorrelated incremental returns from one...

Zero Coupon Swaption

A payer (receiver) zero-coupon swaption is an option which gives the holder the right to enter into a payer (receiver) zero-coupon interest rate...

Cherry Picking

A practice in bankruptcy proceedings whereby a bankruptcy court may enforce contracts that are in the money to the bankrupt counterparty while abrogating contracts...

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...

Outperformance Swap

A variant on equity-linked swap in which the equity leg is linked to the larger of the total returns on at least...