We're pursuing a claim against our client's former solicitors for their failure to issue proceedings in time against a bank for mis -
selling of an interest rate swap product.
HYGH currently holds about $ 298 million in notional amounts
of interest rate swaps against a $ 255 million position in HYG, a near 50 - 50 split, BlackRock says.
Litigating, arbitrating and / or mediating a variety of complex disputes, from real estate disputes to settlement values of interest rate swaps
Instructed as part of a team by a retail client in a multi-million pound Chancery Division claim against a bank for alleged mis - selling of a series of interest rate swaps
This April saw the start of the compensation process by the banks (1) taking part in the review regarding the mis -
selling of interest rate swaps and other interest rate hedging products (IRHPs)(2).
The most common
type of interest rate swap is a plain vanilla swap, which involves one party paying a fixed interest rate and receiving a floating rate, and the other party paying a floating rate and receiving a fixed rate.
After Austria's state - owned railroad, in 2009, reported a $ 1.3 billion loss caused by writing down the
value of interest rate swaps, it successfully sued Deutsche Bank on the grounds that the lender had not disclosed the risks associated with the derivative.
In modern (financial) markets, «producers»
of interest rate swaps or equity derivative products will use financial futures or equity index futures to reduce or remove the risk on the swap.
Disputes arising out of hedging and derivative contracts including the mis - selling
of interest rate swaps, forex swaps and commodity swaps.
A (acting by its liquidator) sues B for the mis - selling
of an interest rate swap and is awarded # 500,000 or is offered the same sum as redress out of court.