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Credit Deterioration

A gradual decrease in the quality (credit rating, credit quality) of a credit (a security or an issuer) or a...

Protection Buyer

A party to a credit default swap (or any other type of swap) that pays the other counterparty (known as...

Protection Seller

A party to a credit default swap (or any other type of swap) that takes on the credit risk of...

Partial Swap

A swap which partially matches the debt it was picked to alter its underlying interest rate (whether from fixed to...

Bond Swap Trade

A trade that consists of taking a position in a bond and an opposite position in a swap for the...

RPI Swap

A swap which involves an exchange of interest calculated by reference to the Retail Prices Index (RPI) and another reference...

Novation

A process of replacing a contract or a series of contracts with a new one(s), whereas a third party takes...

Positioning of Swaps

A practice whereby an intermediary enters into one side of the swap transaction, such as fixed rate payer (or floating...

Swap Rate

The market interest rate which is used (or referred to) to determine the fixed rate leg of a swap. At...

BMA Swap Curve

The expected future values of the Bond Market Association (BMA) index, where expectations are taken in the corresponding forward probability...