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Interest rate swaps provide counter-parties with the opportunity to exchange fixed-rate and floating-rate cash flows. Large financial institutions, such as banks, commodity market participants and ...

An interest rate swap is a deal between two investors. One has his money in a product paying a fixed rate of interest, such as a government bond; the other in a variable rate instrument that pays out ...