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Unwinding a Swap: a process of terminating a swap by marking it
to market and calculating its value in order to determine which
counterparty has a positive terminal value. This counterparty will
receive cash payment from the other counterparty whose terminal
value is negative. A major technical consideration in
unwinds is the
stub period. If this period is
at the beginning, then it needs to be handled separately. Suppose an
investor is a counterparty to a swap with a remaining life of three
years and eight months against six-month
LIBOR. This gives him six even periods (six months each) and one
partial (2 months). First of all, the value of the partial period
should be calculated separately...
Featured Definition
Mid-Swap: the reference rate which is used to calculate the premium that a bond buyer will pay. Adding a spread to a reference rate is one method to value a bond....