Questions tagged [interest-rate-swap]
An interest rate swap is a financial derivative where two parties exchange interest payments on a specified notional principal over a set period. One party pays a fixed rate, while the other pays a floating rate tied to a reference rate (e.g., LIBOR). These swaps help manage interest rate risk, hedge against rate fluctuations, and enable speculation on future rate changes.
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carry and roll of an asset swap [closed]
I came across many interesting questions regarding carry and roll of swaps, bond futures and bonds. Now I found that link about the carry / roll of an asset swap. Reading that article two questions ...
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BLOOMBERG Strike vs Straddle Volatility
In Bloomberg's VCUB, what is the difference between the "strike" volatility and changing this option to "straddle"? It seems like the "straddle" vol should be the same as ...
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Why is carry divided by DV01 to scale it?
If I understand correctly, 6M carry in a fixed-floating interest rate swap should be the difference between the fixed and floating leg.
When I read this on Page 2:
https://corporate.nordea.com/api/...
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Interest rate swap Profit and loss attribution
I am wondering how the IRS daily PnL will normally be attributed from trader's/market risk perspective.
Will it be broken down into three parts daily carry (Daily interest accrual), daily roll-down (...
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Approximate dollar MTM of interest rate swaps
I'm definitely a fixed income tourist but I'm wondering if there's an easy way to back of the envelope approximate dollar PnL of an interest rate swap
For example, if I enter a $1m fixed 5y USD swap ...
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ATM interest rate swap dv01 vs off-market swap dv01
How significant is impact on dv01 of an at-the-money swap if rates move significantly?
For example: lets say a 5Y USD at the money swap has 4.6 duration. now, if the rate curve move by 150-200bps, ...
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How to calculate the gaussian VaR for a portfolio with 3 corporate bonds and 1 IRS payer?
As data I have the daily change of zero coupon spot rates for some vertex (0.25, 0.5, 1, 2..) and the daily change of z-spread for corporate bonds, also by vertex
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Returns of an interest rate swap
I would like to calculate returns for a plain-vanilla (fixed-for-floating) interest rate swap. Consider, that I am long in USD 5-year swap rate, i.e. I'm holding a receiver swap for 5-year swap rate ...
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How to get forward rate fixing when valuating a swap
Suppose I want to value a (fwd) starting swap, that means I would like to calculate the fixed rate $S_{\alpha, \beta}(t)$. Note, I'm using Brigo's Notation here. We know that the discounted payoff of ...
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Fixed vs float swap interest rate risk
I have some technical questions about what are the best settings in Bloomberg to calculate the interest rate risk of a swap.
When Bloomberg calculates the DV01, it simply bumps the par swap curve by +/...
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Term SOFR rate formula
The following website gives the specifications of the CME Term SOFR reference rates: CME Term SOFR.
Point 1 in the link above specifies that the tenors that are currently supported are 1m, 3m, 6m, and ...
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What is the Performance Total Return Swap (TRS)? How about Performance Fixed TRS and Performance Float TRS?
I just know these products recently: Performance Total Return Swap (TRS), Performance Fixed TRS and Performance Float TRS.
But cannot find a detailed explanation of the product, all I can find is an ...
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How Bloomberg calculates discount rates for zero rate curves?
I would like to ask about discount rates calculation algorithm by Bloomberg terminal.
In the image above is possible to notice the discount rate for each term. The short end, instruments from 1 DY up ...
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Why LIBOR discount and continuous compounding discount are different?
The reference is Fixed Income Securities by Pietro Veronesi.
As you can see, In Table 20.5 when the maturity is 1.25, the LIBOR Discount is 96.7402
However In Table 20.3 with same maturity, the ...
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Interest Rate Options - OTC vs Exchange, vol difference
I understand that Exchange Traded Interest Options (USD Libor 3m or Euribor 3m) trade with a lower volatility than the respective Cap or Floor for an equivalent structure.
Can anyone give any colour ...
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How do you identify nondeliverable swap
what is unique about NDS transactions, how can I identify them using certain parameters or attributes specific to NDS?
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Methodology to build a Fed Funds curve post LIBOR cessation
With the transition from LIBOR to SOFR, what is the market standard for building a Fed Funds curve? In the "old days", I believe that one would use Fed Funds futures for the front-end (i.e. ...
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Market convention for building the front-end of the SOFR discounting curve
In SOFR Discount Curve Construction in Nov 2021, @dm63 does an excellent job describing the way to build the SOFR discount curve. A few questions:
What is the market convention for building the ...
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USD swaps trading post LIBOR: the current state of the world (January 2022)
The USD interest rate swaps market has been transitioning from LIBOR to SOFR for some time. In the "old days" when swaps reset against LIBOR underlyings, there were a few "market ...
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VaR on Interest Rate Swaps
I am a newbie and was after a simple explanation on how VaR is calculated for a portfolio of IRS's.
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Market Convention to Price Interest Rate Swaps (post LIBOR transition)
Prior to the onset of the Global Financial Crisis in 2008, interest rate swaps were priced using a so-called "single curve framework". Under this framework, the LIBOR curve was used to ...
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Floating swap payoff with rate determined on current instead of previous date
I am attempting to determine the payoffs a modified swap, in which the floating payments at a time $T_k$ are made on the current date (i.e. $L(T_k,T_{k+1})\equiv L_{k+1}(T_k)$) rather than at the ...
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Which Model Should I Use for Pricing USD Interest Rate Caps (7, 10, 30 year maturities) on 1Month Rates?
I am trying to price USD interest rate caps on 1M rates (e.g., LIBOR, SOFR, etc.).
The caps are designed to limit the exposure on non-callable USD Pay Float / Receive fixed positions in interest rate ...
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Definition / convention of statements receive 10s30s and boxes
I have a very practical question regarding the terminology of swap / rates trading. What is the exact definition of statements like receive 10s30s. I know that it is the spread between 30y and 10y ...
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interest rate swap schedules
Is there a source describing how the schedules(start, end, dcf, payment) involved in a basic IRS are computed?
Depending on when the dates are adjusted, the schedules can be different.
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end-of-month or not for plain vanilla interest rate swap
Quick and hopefully simple question about a standard swap schedule. Let's say we have a plain vanilla 3y fix-flt interest rate swap with cpn-freq = 1, no stubs, in for example EUR.
Start date: 2021-11-...
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Annualizing the pay frequency of underlying swaps when bootstrapping the zero curve?
Say I'm looking to bootstrap two zero curves based on two swap curves with different underlying currencies and, consequently, two different pay structures in the swap contracts. For example, say I ...
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SOFR Discount Curve Construction in Nov 2021
On July 29, 2021, the Alternative Reference Rates Committee (ARRC) formally recommended the forward-looking term rates based on SOFR published by the CME Group.
CME currently publishes Term SOFR for ...
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Advice for automating swap curve construction
Let me start by assuming a simple single curve framework, whereby we take input instruments (mm,fra,futures,swaps etc) and strip out a discount-factor curve. Modern implementations of this are usually ...
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Real rates expectations
What are the drivers of real rates?
Nominal = real rates + breakevens
breakeven = inflation expectations and what about
real rates = ?
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How to measure Steepener/Flattener/Butterfly sensitivity? (in 01)
This seems like a simple concept but I'm a bit lost. How can I calculate the dollar value sensitivity for a yield curve slope or butterfly position? I understand how DV01 can be calculated, but it ...
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What makes the benefit of defaulted counterparty risk asymmetric in an interest swap?
On page 369 of Quantitative Risk Management (2015) by McNeil, Frey, and Embrechts, there is an interesting example that I do not quite understand. Suppose A makes a floating interest rate payment to B,...
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Bermudan Swaption Pricing via Least-Square Monte Carlo
I have some confusion regarding pricing a Bermudan Swaption using LSMC.
Let's say the underlying swap has payment dates $T_0 < T_1 < \ldots < T_n$ and for simplicity, assuming the exercise ...
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Pricing an OIS referencing SONIA with fixing lag
I'm trying to price an Overnight Index Swap referencing SONIA.
The swap will have a 5 day fixing lag (i.e using compounded SONIA over the current interest period but with the last rate set 5 days ...
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IRS - sensitivity to estimation (projection, coupon) curve and discounting curve
The mark to market of an interest swap that is close to zero (e.g., at the swap's inception) has more sensitivity to which curve - the estimation (projection, coupon) curve or the discount curve? And ...
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How to resampling the risk of a specific tenor on a interest rate curve without replace the instrument?
For example, suppose we have an interest rate curve bootstrapped from multiple instruments, at the short end, we used eurodollar future (up to 2Y), at the longer end, we used interest rate swap (3Y to ...
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How to account for the credit spread ( e.g. LIBOR + 2%) when using the Multicurve Methodology in valuing a Swap
When valuing an Interest rate swap, counterparties will typically issue the contract at a Libor + credit premium, e.g. Libor +2%. When valuing a swap, we require a LIBOR forward curve and Discounting ...
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Is it possible to price a plain vanilla interest rate swap in Python and simulate the price using Hull White 1 Factor Model simultaneously?
I am trying to price plain vanilla interest rate swap (IRS) using QuantLib. What I am trying to do is to generate a path of simulated IRS price by simulating the interest rates using HW 1 Factor model....
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Swap Schedule Question
Suppose we are seeking to value two swaps, with tenors of 2Y and 3Y with start dates on 30 Aug 2021 and semi-annual payments.
I want to calculate the schedule of payments on the fixed leg.
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Using a Swap curve to price Interest rate Swaps
Say we have a 3-m LIBOR IRS (interest rate swap) with quarterly fixed payments (2 year contract), and we want to value this contract (after say 6 months has passed, i.e. there remain 1.5 years to ...
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Convexity Adjustment of Daily Compounded Swap under Hull-White Model
I am working on a problem that deals OIS daily compounded swap under Hull-White 1-factor model. I am struggling with pricing the floating leg, on a delayed payment date:
$E^{T^p}_t[\prod_{i=0}^{n-1} (...
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Rationale for the CMS Spread and CMS Rate as being underlying for Dual Range Accrual?
I was searching on the products issued by the banks to retail investors, and saw some of the Dual Range Accruals having underlying as USD CMS 30Y - 2Y, and USD CMS 10Y, each having low barrier and ...
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Specify fixing days for floating leg in Interest Rate Swap valuation using QuantLib Python
I am trying to price an Interest Rate Swap using QuantLib Python, and everything seems to be fine. However, I can't seem to understand where I can specify the number of fixing days.
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Constructing a USD LIBOR curve
USD_LIBOR rates are only published up to 12 months.
how would you approach constructing the curve to at least a 30-year tenor, to price for example an interest rate swap.
I have heard that swaps can ...
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How to value a long term interest rate swap if the floating leg is USD-LIBOR
To value an IRS, you require a spot/zero curve. If I am correct this zero curve will be the USD-LIBOR curve. However, if you have e.g. a 10-year swap that you are trying to value 2 months into the ...
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Estimating SOFR daily rate from a given curve
Goodday. May i know how can i estimate those fixing rate in the yellow cell, with the curve given on the left?
Would my step below work
1.perform linear interpolation to find the rate e.g. the fixing ...
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NPV of Interest Rate Swap not coming to be 0 at initiation
I am using the iPython notebook published by Gouthaman Balaraman at [http://gouthamanbalaraman.com/blog/interest-rate-swap-quantlib-python.html][1]
This is to value the Interest Rate Swap. I am ...
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Curve Trades - Forward Swap vs Swap(Payer and Receiver)
let's say I want to do a steepening trade. What would be the difference between
entering a swap starting in 5 years and lasting for 5 years (5y5y)
entering a payer swap with a tenor of 10 years and ...
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Hull-White-1F swaption price Parameters using tf_quant_finance
Sorry for this rather general question but im new in this field.
I'm asked to model the Expected Expsoure of an interest rate swap.
The Short Rate should be modelled via a 1factor Hull-White model:
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forward LIBOR curve bootstrapping
how can i construct a forward libor curve, which produces forward LIBOR rates, with the given data/info:
par rates of a set of OIS
fixed 6M LIBOR rate
par rates of a set of Swaps which the underlying ...
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