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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Basic question on Plain Vanilla Interest Rate Swap pricing
I'm new to quant and would like to understand on pricing AUD Plain Vanilla Interest Rate Swap. In post/article/book often explain for long end, we use SWAP RATE that are observed in market. But I'm ...
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Calculating Cross Currency basis swaps
I am trying to calculate cross currency basis swaps for personal use. I generally understand what they are (essentially swapping one currency for another currency on a floating interest rate basis) ...
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Why does the ultra long-end of a yield curve invert?
The shape of the yield curve (at least in the GBP Rates market) is upward sloping from the front end up to the long end (i.e. 30y), but then begins to become downward sloping as we go beyond 30y and ...
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IRS Valuation to calculate the expected exposure [closed]
I have several levels of fixed rate swap vs. Euribor 6 months from 2007 up to now. I would like to know how to calculate with these data the fixed and floating leg of the swaps.
This is a part of the ...
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Cross Currency swap - Bond Yields arbitrage
Could somebody explain me step-by-step how can I compute the cross-currency yield of a bond bought by a foreign investor and x-ccy swapped back into his domestic currency? I basically would like to ...
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Interest rate swap valuation date convention
When we value interest rate derivatives on any date $t$, we can estimate our future payments using some calibrated forward curve $f_s$, where $s$ is the spot date, and discount these back to $t$ using ...
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Interpolating the swap curve
Does anyone know how I can calculate the swap rate in between main tenors for specific dates? For example: what is the implied swap rate in 1 year, 60 days time.
Is there an easy way to do this in ...
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Bootstrapping zero coupon rates
How do we obtain discount rates to obtain zero coupon rates given only swap rates? what is the procedure? Also what exactly is curve calibration?
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ISDA SIMM swap sensitivities
Most of the commercial SIMM models require sensitivities to be passed in in CRIF format. The documentation mentions that "par sensitivities" need to be used. What exactly is a par sensitivity? When we ...
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Swap Pricing - Using forward rates vs using par bond after first floating payment
There seems to be two different methods I have come across for valuing a Interest Rate Swap - specifically the floating leg.
One method described by Hull: incorporates the cashflow from the first ...
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Price Alignment Interest(PAI) Convexity Effect
I've been looking at convexity adjustments in ED's for several years(more opportunities a few years ago then currently) and was wondering if my thinking on PAI impact on swaps convexity is correct.
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analytical formula for FV of fixed rate of a IRS [closed]
IRS plain vanilla
- expiry in 5 years
- principal is 1$
- semianual payment
How could the analytical formula be derived for the fair value of the fixed rate (initially no value of the swap)?
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daycount of the yield curve
Complete characterization of an interest rate requires a few elements:
day count
compounding frequency
the rate itself
start date and end date
That said, I notice that day counts are never displayed ...
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Bootstrapping spot rates based on swap rates using QuantLib
I am bootstrapping the shibor curve and fr007 curve using swap rates in China. I created my own index like following:
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Swaption valuation across time using vcub
On Bloomberg one has access to the rates vol cube with the VCUB function. For a given currency, today, one sees Black implied volatilities for swaptions of various expiries and strikes, for forward ...
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Multi-legged Swap pricing
can anyone guide me how to price a multi-legged swap and whether I need Monte Carlo / LMM based approach or if there is a closed form solution.
Receive leg
"Libor 3m +1%"
Payment leg
If Libor is ...
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In Arrears Swap - what accrual period applies?
In Arrears Swap, the floating rate is reset and paid on the same date.
What accrual period is applied to compute the payment -
If the dates are t1, t2, t3 ...tn.
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Calculate forward discount factors and forward reference rate when discount factors are known
I am trying to learn how to value interest rate swap through portfolio of FRA's(forward rate agreement).But I have got stuck in calculation of floating leg.
Here is the scenario as given below for ...
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What's the difference between instantaneous forward rates and observable forward rates?
Source:
http://docs.fincad.com/support/developerFunc/mathref/LIBORMarketModel.htm
"In contrast to models that evolve the instantaneous short rate (Hull-White, Black-Karasinski models) or ...
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Linear Interpolation around End of Month (EOM) for IRS with standard rolls
I have a USD IRS S/A v 3M LIBOR with the following dates:
Effective: 30th April 2018
Maturity: 28th April 2028
(Rolls day of month = 28)
Therefore stub period runs from 30th April 2018 to 28th July ...
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Difference between IRS and OIS
Is the understanding right that OIS can be accessed only by banks whereas IRS is for corporates.
Also, since corporates borrow at Libor + spread, to hedge Libor I use IRS.
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Bermudan Swaption
Is there an equation of the kind of call-put parity for Bermudean swaptions ? (maybe an inequality )
Is there an intuitive description of what would be an optimal exercise moment ? Intuitively I ...
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IMM Swaps - Accrual & Fixing Schedule
I am wondering how accrual periods & reset dates on Quarterly-IMM swaps are different to normal swaps (in terms of conventions). For example:
Normal Swap:
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Port a model dependent swaption sensitivity to a new model
I have a short rate model in which I have (among others) the following metric (for leverages) for a swaption : $$L = \frac{\frac{\partial}{\partial r}V_0^{\textrm{Swaption}}}{\frac{\partial}{\partial ...
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Curve Building + Swap Pricing [duplicate]
Assume Swap means a USD Swap with standard conventions (semi-annual fixed payments and quarterly floating payments, etc).
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Trading Jargon - Interest Rate Swaps / Bond Trading
I was going through some reports but having hard time with the jargon. When I google them online I came across the page: http://volcurve.blogspot.com/2007/10/carry-and-roll-down-back-to-basics.html
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Interview question on interest rate spread trade
Consider this interview question:
Tell me how you'd construct a risk neutral cross country trade on the 2 year – 10 year interest rate spread in Germany and the U.S.
What does "risk neutral" mean ...
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Bloomberg SWPM: Day count to calculate discount factor for US0003M
I'm trying to replicate price I get for CCIRS in SWPM. This is USD3m float vs RUB 1Y. Second leg doesn't matter for my question.
Suppose today is 7th of Jan 2019, deal date. Settlement will happen on ...
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Basic question on USD Interest Rate Swap
I am just starting out as a rates and derivatives trader.
Can someone please recommend some books for trading USD interest rate swaps (including risk management)?
Any additional guidance would be ...
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Swaption annuity factor
In H. Corb's book about interest rate swaps and oder derivatives, the present value of an T into n payer swaption is given via
$A\sigma\sqrt{T}\left[\frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}}e^{-\frac{d^2}{2}}+d\,\...
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Arbitrage on Libor and swap market
I must be wrong here, but still want to know where I am wrong. I found the data of Libor rate and swap rate from this link: http://www.interestrateswapstoday.com/libor-rates.html
At the time, I read
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Quantitative impact of Dodd-Frank Act on risk management
The US Dodd-Frank Act (DFA) introduced mandatory central clearing of standard (e.g. plain vanilla) swaps for big financial institutions in the US in 2013.
It might be a broad question but: what have ...
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Black and Normal Model for Caplet using Python
I am able to Price Caplet using Black 76 model in Python. However, I am unable to price the same with Normal Model. Can anyone suggest what is missing ?
I am valuing caplet that caps interest rate on ...
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Why are interest rate swaps the most popular interest rate derivatives [closed]
Interest rate swaps are the most popular interest rate derivatives. Is there a reason why they are more popular than other interest rate derivatives (e.g. forwards, futures)? Is it because they were ...
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How are Interest Rate Swaps Quoted
Im not sure if this is the right place to ask this question or whether Personal Finance & Money would be a better place. Basically I know that initially interest rate swaps are quoted based on the ...
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Swap Curve and Forward Libor Rates
How does the (interest rate) swap curve incorporate forward libor expectations?
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heding bond risk with swap
How would a bond trader hedge his/her interest rate risk? A nature way is to hedge it with interest rate swap. Is this a choice in practice ? is their any risks associating with this hedging strategy. ...
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Hedging Ratios for Fixed Income Instruments
If you buy a corporate bond and you want to hedge the interest rate risk, how would you know how many interest rate futures/swaps to hedge the bond with?
The same with an MBS security, if you want to ...
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Bootstrap daily OIS forward rate
Can someone please show me how to derive the daily OIS forward rate in a OIS-fixed rate swap?
For example, if price a paying fixed rate/receiving OIS swap in Bloomberg SWPM, Bloomberg will be able ...
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Calculate tenor wise DV01 of a Swap in Quantlib Python, i.e. Key-rate Duration
Is there a way I can get DV01 breakup of a Swap across different tenors of the deal in Quantlib-Python. The question asked here, follows the basic method of re-valuing the swap by shifting the curve ...
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QuantLib in Python : Execution time with OISRateHelper compared to Swap/Deposit RateHelper
I have been working on valuation of interest rate swaps using dual curve bootstrapping. And for this I use OISRateHelper to create a discount term structure using OIS rates. The entire code below :
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Mid-curve swaption
I would like to know how the mid-curve swaption could inform us about forward volatility.
In my understanding it is a swaption on a forward starting swap.
Let us say the midcurve swaption expires ...
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Physical Delivery of Single Currency Fixed-Floating IRS
In trade data of South American single currency fixed-floating IRS (e.g. BRL with floating rate BRLCDI with deliverable USD) there are many physically settled IRS. What does physical delivery / ...
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Why is the annuity factor proportional to the CV01?
For an asset with par amount of one unit (with a semiannual payment regime) we have
$$\frac{C(T)}{2}\sum_{t=1}^{2T}d\Big(\frac{t}{2}\Big) + d(T) = 1$$ $$\implies\frac{C(T)}{2}A(T) + d(T) = 1,$$
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Turning an amortising swaption into a normal swaption
Is there a way to enter a trading strategy in which the notional of the cashflows of an amortising swaption become all the same?
For example, imagine the notional for the first four cashflows of an ...
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bootstrapping a basis curve to get a forward basis curve
suppose i have a trade whose payoff underlying is 3m libor minus 1m libor.
the standard approach is to bootstrap seperately 2 projection curves: a) a 3m projection curve, b) a 1m proj curve.
however, ...
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Collateralized / uncollateralized swap
Is a fully collateralized interest rate swap considered free of counterparty credit risk? Or close to risk free? Therefore discounted by the rate that best proxies the risk-free rate (which is the OIS-...
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Bermudan Swaptions [closed]
Can someone explain, in layman's terms, the mechanics behind Bermudan Swapttions ( without having recourse to pricing models )?
Why are they popular? when are they used ?
How are they hedged i.e ...
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What are advantages of expressing swaps this way?
On page 420 of Bailey's "The Economics of Financial Markets" textbook there is an example:
"For example, suppose that [in a plain vanilla interest rate swap] the company agrees to pay 9.25 per cent ...
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