Month: June 2014

Currency swaps are only slightly more difficult to value than plain vanilla interest rate swaps; once again, as with all derivatives, the formula for the value is: \[Value\ =\ PV(what\ you\ will\ receive)\ –\ PV(what\ you\ will\ pay)\] Because the swap is equivalent to two bonds (one long, one short, one in one currency, one…

Remember that the price of a swap is the fixed rate on the swap.  A currency swap can take one of three forms: Each side pays a fixed rate: one in one currency, the other in a different currency.  In this case, there are two prices for the currency swap: the two fixed rates (which…