Discover the world of asset swaps, their key components, types, and applications in portfolio management. Learn how to manage ...

Trader’s Corner, a weekly partnership with Cost Management Solutions, analyzes propane supply and pricing trends. This week, ...

Angola recovered $200 million in collateral from JPMorgan following an improvement in bond prices. This development ...

More recent surveys estimate the market for credit-mitigating financial instruments to have grown to over $800 billion in 2000. The 1999 BBA survey found that about 40% of the transactions in this ...

This kind of swap is a "fair-value hedge." On the financial statement, note in the net assets both the increased fair value of the swap and the decreased value of the fixed-rate mortgage instruments.

It’s usually not a good sign when obscure financial instruments are making headlines. And that’s the case now as the political standoff over the U.S. government’s debt ceiling puts credit ...

The legislation will more tightly regulate so-called exotic financial instruments like credit default swaps. When did people start referring to certain investments as exotic?

Belize (2021): Belize executed a $553 million debt-for-nature swap, reducing its external debt by 10% of GDP. The agreement, facilitated by TNC and backed by “blue bonds,” committed Belize to ...

Those non-financial companies will be required to start clearing swaps in the third quarter of 2013 unless they qualify for an exception from mandatory clearing (the “Commercial End-User ...