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Vanilla Vanillas Floating RateFloating rates Instruments and Swaps

In: Capital Market Finance

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  • Patrice Poncet

    (ESSEC Business School)

  • Roland Portait

    (ESSEC Business School)

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The first category of instruments with floating interest rates (floaters) is made up of assets like notes and bonds which distribute floating coupons. They are used to transfer liquidity (investment/financing). Their market values fluctuate around their nominal value. According to the rules that govern the calculation of coupons, these assets are said to have “forward-looking” (pre-determined) rates or “backward-looking” (post-determined) rates. The simplest floaters, vanilla floaters, are replicable by a sequence of spot short-term transactions on the money market. Interest rate swaps make up the second category of floating-rate instruments and aim to manage interest rate risk. An interest rate swap can be analyzed as a portfolio with two components of opposite sign, one usually a fixed-rate instrument and the other a floating-rate instrument. Its market value, which is initially nil, in general, remains very small over its life although it varies as a function of interest rates.

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  • Patrice Poncet & Roland Portait, 2022. "Vanilla Vanillas Floating RateFloating rates Instruments and Swaps," Springer Texts in Business and Economics, in: Capital Market Finance, chapter 7, pages 205-253, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sptchp:978-3-030-84600-8_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-84600-8_7
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