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The Investment and Finance Knowledge Base/ The Financial Encyclopedia provides up-to-date definitions and concepts and almost everything about finance, investment, financial markets, financial instruments and products including stocks, bonds, money market tools, active trading, mutual funds, hedge funds, funds of funds, derivatives, forex, banking, real estate and so on. Content is categorized into sections and subsections, each with its own focus and perspective. The encyclopedia contains more than 30,000 terms covering everyday jargon and terminology of the financial world.
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The Investment and Finance Knowledge Base/ The Financial Encyclopedia provides up-to-date definitions and concepts and almost everything about finance, investment, financial markets, financial instruments and products including stocks, bonds, money market tools, active trading, mutual funds, hedge funds, funds of funds, derivatives, forex, banking, real estate and so on. Content is categorized into sections and subsections, each with its own focus and perspective. The encyclopedia contains more than 30,000 terms covering everyday jargon and terminology of the financial world.
Random Definition
Swap Positioning:
A practice whereby an intermediary enters into one side of the swap
transaction, such as fixed rate payer (or floating rate payer) to a
client who wishes to be a floating rate payer (or a fixed rate
payer). Then the intermediary waits for a matching counterparty and
offloads the swap thereto. In other words, swap positioning involves
holding a portfolio of swaps usually by a swap dealer without
seeking to offset each swap with an identical
mirror swap. In this sense, the swap dealer becomes a
counterparty to every swap held in its portfolio The dealer
earns, for its services as a dealer, a pay-receive spread
(bid-ask spread) which is equal to ...
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Featured Definition
Mid-Swap: the reference rate which is used to calculate the premium that a bond buyer will pay. Adding a spread to a reference rate is one method to value a bond....