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Risk management - hedging - interest rate risk - derivative instruments.

(IRD).

An interest rate derivative instrument or contract is one designed to hedge interest rate risk.

The cash flows and value of the interest rate derivative relate to an underlying reference interest rate.

Examples include forward rate agreements, interest rate swaps, cross-currency interest rate swaps, interest rate options and swaptions.


See also