currency swaps
Currency swaps are financial agreements between two parties to exchange an agreed amount of one currency for another at a predetermined exchange rate, effectively enabling them to access funds in a different currency than their own.
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Related Concepts (28)
- arbitrage
- basis swaps
- capital markets
- capital structure
- cash flows
- central banks
- counterparty risk
- cross currency swaps
- debt management
- derivatives
- financial institutions
- financial stability
- floating-for-fixed swaps
- foreign exchange swaps
- funding costs
- fx risk
- hedging
- interest rate swaps
- international finance
- libor
- market liquidity
- maturity dates
- monetary policy coordination
- notional amounts
- risk management
- sovereign debt
- swap spreads
- yield curve
Similar Concepts
- credit default swaps
- currency appreciation
- currency arbitrage
- currency crisis
- currency exchange rate management
- currency exchange rates
- currency hedging
- currency manipulation
- currency risk
- currency stability
- exchange rate volatility
- exchange rates
- floating exchange rate
- foreign exchange
- forward contracts