Sentences with phrase «like interest rate swaps»

In one paper he co-wrote in the spring of 2002, just months after he joined Goldman Sachs to lead its effort to win investment banking business from European governments, Mr. Draghi argued that governments might use financial derivatives like interest rate swaps «to stabilize tax revenue and avoid the sudden accumulation of debt.»

Derivative transactions like interest rate swaps also serve the same purpose [of eliminating credit risks, MH & DB]» (Das 2006).

Not exact matches

That's because low interest rates, like sub-prime mortgages and credit default swaps, are the proper financial instrument in very limited circumstances.

It includes the previous, but it can also do things like derivatives, interest rate swaps, and credit default swaps.

Some markets, like interest rate and currency swaps, are OTC but (like foreign exchange forwards) are for many instruments normally very liquid and not terribly risky (and like the analogy to forwards, you also have ones that are thin, like long dated forwards or exotic currencies).

Large bond investors not restricted by the FPR like insurance companies have «asset swapped» into foreign issuers by purchasing their bonds directly and using currency and interest rate swaps to convert the cash flows to Canadian dollar.

More specifically, an interest rate swap looks a lot like a combination of FRAs and involves an agreement between counterparties to exchange sets of future cash flows.