scholarly journals Cross-Currency Interest Rate Swap Application in the Long-Term Currency Risk Management

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Piotr Wybieralski
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Interest Rate ◽  
Risk Estimation ◽  
Cash Flows ◽  
Currency Risk ◽  
Money Markets ◽  
Interest Rate Swap ◽  
Risk Hedging ◽  
Rate Swap

<p>Effective currency risk management using various derivatives is particularly important under increased market volatility. The risk is relatively higher for longer than shorter time frames. This study highlights the implementation of selected instruments for long-term hedging. It presents the application of cross-currency interest rate swap as a currency risk hedging tool used by Polish exporters, mainly manufacturers generating their revenues mostly abroad (in euro area), exposed to negative exchange rate fluctuations. The paper covers issues related to the pricing, market risk estimation and collateral required in the OTC market, as well as undertakes a sensitivity analysis in search for exchange rates at which margin call occurs. There is a comparative analysis and back test simulation conducted using market data from exchange and money markets. The study emphasized that the analyzed instrument meets the expectations in terms of hedging the company cash flows, as well as may generate additional benefits due to the still existing interest rate differential.</p>

scholarly journals Interest Rate Swap Market Complexity and Its Risk Management Implications

Complexity ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Steve Y. Yang ◽  
Esen Onur
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Interest Rate ◽  
Network Structure ◽  
Risk Sharing ◽  
Interest Rate Swap ◽  
Market Participants ◽  
Interest Rate Futures ◽  
The Interest Rate ◽  
Management Behaviors ◽  
Rate Swap

The primary objective of this paper is to study the post Dodd-Frank network structure of the interest rate swap market and propose a set of effective complexity measures to understand how the swap users respond to market risks. We use a unique swap dataset extracted from the swap data repositories (SDRs) to examine the network structure properties and market participants’ risk management behaviors. We find (a) the interest rate swap market follows a scale-free network where the power-law exponent is less than 2, which indicates that few of its important entities have a significant number of contracts within their subsidiaries (a.k.a. interaffiliated swap contracts); (b) swap rate volatility Granger-causes swap users to increase their risk sharing intensity at entity level, but market participants do not change their risk management strategies in general; (c) there is a significant contemporaneous correlation between the swap rate volatility and the underlying interest rate futures volatility. However, interest rate swap volatility does not cause the underlying interest rate futures volatility and vice versa. These findings provide the market regulators and swap users a better understanding of interest rate swap market participants’ risk management behaviors, and it also provides a method to monitor the swap market risk sharing dynamics.

Long Term Volatility of Interest Rate Swap and Macroeconomic Risk in Korean Market

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 255-273
Author(s):  
Byung-Jo Yoon ◽  
Kook-Hyun Chang ◽  
홍 민구
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rate ◽  
Yield Curve ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Interest Rate Swap ◽  
Macroeconomic Risk ◽  
Jump Model ◽  
Foreign Exchange Volatility ◽  
Korean Market ◽  
Rate Swap

This paper tries to empirically investigate whether macroeconomic risk may be statistically useful in explaining long-term volatility of interest rate swap (IRS) in korean market. This paper uses the component-jump model to estimate long-term volatility of IRS from 1/2/2003 to 1/31/2013. By using the component-jump model, the IRS volatility is decomposed into a long-term and a short-term component. According to this study, slope of yield curve and foreign exchange volatility as a proxy of macroeconomic risk have been significant in explaining long-term volatility of IRS.

Spillovers of international interest rate swap markets and stock market volatility

2016 ◽  
Vol 42 (10) ◽  
pp. 943-962 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hsiu-Chuan Lee ◽  
Chih-Hsiang Hsu ◽  
Cheng-Yi Chien
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rate ◽  
Stock Markets ◽  
Market Volatility ◽  
Stock Market Volatility ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Interest Rate Swap ◽  
Volatility Spillovers ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
Rate Swap

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate volatility spillovers across the interest rate swap markets of the G7 economies, and then the authors investigate whether spillovers of swap markets contain useful information to explain subsequent stock price movements. Design/methodology/approach This study uses the short- and long-term swap spread volatility of the G7 countries to explore the spillover effects of international swap markets, and then investigates the relationship between swap and stock markets. The authors use the generalized VAR approach suggested by Diebold and Yilmaz (2012) to study spillovers of international swap markets. The Granger-causality tests are employed to examine the linkage of interest rate swap and stock markets. Findings This paper shows that a moderate spillover effect exists for the short- and long-term swap markets. Moreover, the results show that the short- and long-term swap markets of France and Germany have a larger impact on other countries’ swap markets than that of other countries’ swap markets on the French and German swap markets. Finally, the results indicate that the total volatility spillovers for the long-term swap markets have a larger influence on the total volatility spillover index of stock markets and the global stock market volatility than that of the short-term swap markets. Originality/value Prior literature has used impulse response and variance decomposition analyses to investigate international swap markets linkages. However, the results depend on the ordering of variables. This study uses the framework of Diebold and Yilmaz (2012) to overcome the ordering issue, and thus the authors can compute directional spillovers. This paper is the first study to explore the linkage of the total volatility spillover of swap markets and the stock markets.

Covered Interest Rate Arbitrage Trading and Negative Spreads of Interest rate Swap in Korea

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-75
Author(s):  
Seungyeon Won
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rate ◽  
Capital Market ◽  
Foreign Investors ◽  
Interest Rate Swap ◽  
Arbitrage Trading ◽  
The Interest Rate ◽  
Korean Market ◽  
Swap Spreads ◽  
Rate Swap

This paper empirically shows that the long-term persistence of negative swap spreads, which was unique phenomenon only in Korean interest rate swap market, could be caused by the covered interest rate arbitrage trading by foreign investors in Korean market. It concretely shows the fixed rates of currency swap, whose decreases expand the incentive for arbitrage trading by foreign investors, to positively influence the interest rate swap spreads. The empirical results suggests that the foreign factors might make more effect on the interest rate swap market than the spot bond market, resulting in the negative interest rate swap spreads. The results implies that, the asset pricing for interest rate swap needs to consider the foreign factors under the circumstances of open capital market.

xVA: DEFINITION, EVALUATION AND RISK MANAGEMENT

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (01) ◽  
pp. 2050006
Author(s):  
LIXIN WU ◽  
DAWEI ZHANG
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Interest Rate ◽  
Liquidity Risk ◽  
Credit Default Swaps ◽  
Interest Rate Swap ◽  
Funding Liquidity ◽  
Credit Default ◽  
Risk Neutral ◽  
Default Risks ◽  
Rate Swap

xVA is a collection of valuation adjustments made to the classical risk-neutral valuation of a derivative or derivatives portfolio for pricing or for accounting purposes, and it has been a matter of debate and controversy. This paper is intended to clarify the notion of xVA as well as the usage of the xVA items in pricing, accounting or risk management. Based on bilateral replication pricing using shares and credit default swaps, we attribute the P&L of a derivatives trade into the compensation for counterparty default risks and the costs of funding. The expected present values of the compensation and the funding costs under the risk-neutral measure are defined to be the bilateral CVA and FVA, respectively. The latter further breaks down into FCA, MVA, ColVA and KVA. We show that the market funding liquidity risk, but not any idiosyncratic funding risks, can be bilaterally priced into a derivative trade, without causing price asymmetry between the counterparties. We call for the adoption of VaR or CVaR methodologies for managing funding risks. The pricing of xVA of an interest-rate swap is presented.

FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES - INTEREST RATE SWAP

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 161-168
Author(s):  
Zoran Ivanović ◽  
Elvis Mujačević
Keyword(s):  
Cash Flows ◽  
Basic Form ◽  
Over The Counter ◽  
Interest Rate Swap ◽  
Market Participants ◽  
Forward Contract ◽  
Financial Derivative ◽  
Future Cash Flows ◽  
Interest Payments ◽  
Rate Swap

Swap as a portfolio of forward contract is a financial derivative traded on the over-the-counter market. In its basic form, swap is based on the exchange of future cash flows between two market participants in accordance with the agreed terms. The cash flows that are exchanged are the interest payments and in some circumstances even the notional amount, and transactions are carried out in a period of two to thirty years. Swaps first appeared in 80's, and have evolved from back-to-back loans.

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