Blossary – Financial Derivatives

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Contracts between two or more parties where the underlying assets include stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies, interest rates and market indexes.

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Interest Rate Swap

An agreement between two parties where one stream of future interest payments is exchanged for another based on a specified principal amount. Interest rate swaps often exchange a fixed payment for a ...

Credit Default Swap

A swap designed to transfer the credit exposure of fixed income products between parties. A credit default swap is also referred to as a credit derivative contract, where the purchaser of the swap ...

equity derivative

A derivative instrument with underlying assets based on equity securities. An equity derivative's value will fluctuate with changes in its underlying asset's equity, which is usually measured by ...