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(IRS). A longer-term interest rate derivative.
Long Term Foreign Exchange.
An IRS is similar in its effect to a Forward Rate Agreement (FRA).
An IRS - like an FRA - is a contract for differences based on an agreed market interest rate.  


But the IRS usually has multiple future interest calculation and settlement dates, and is used by a corporate to hedge or transform longer term interest rate exposures. 


For example, an interest rate swap might be used to transform a longer term floating rate borrowing into a synthetic fixed rate borrowing.
=See also=
 
* [[Long term foreign exchange]]
(Whereas an FRA is for the shorter term and for a single settlement receipt or payment.)
 
Other forms of capital market swap have been developed for the exchange of many other different types of cash flows and are used widely to hedge or transform a wide variety of related underlying exposures.
 
== See also ==
* [[Accreting swap]]
* [[Amortising swap]]
* [[Cross-currency interest rate swap]]
* [[Forward rate agreement]]
* [[Forward start swap]]
* [[Notional amount]]
* [[Swap]]
* [[Swap rate]]


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Latest revision as of 10:03, 26 November 2014

Long Term Foreign Exchange.


See also