Blossary – Financial Derivatives

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Contracts between two or more parties where the underlying assets include stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies, interest rates and market indexes.

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equity derivative

A derivative instrument with underlying assets based on equity securities. An equity derivative's value will fluctuate with changes in its underlying asset's equity, which is usually measured by ...

Credit Default Swap

A swap designed to transfer the credit exposure of fixed income products between parties. A credit default swap is also referred to as a credit derivative contract, where the purchaser of the swap ...

Interest Rate Swap

An agreement between two parties where one stream of future interest payments is exchanged for another based on a specified principal amount. Interest rate swaps often exchange a fixed payment for a ...