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Fixed-for-Floating Swap

An interest-rate swap exchanging fixed-rate cash flows for floating-rate cash flows under agreed conventions.

Market use

Payment frequency, reference rate, calendars and day count define the cash flows.

What it means

An interest-rate swap exchanging fixed-rate cash flows for floating-rate cash flows under agreed conventions.

Example

The notional is generally used to calculate payments rather than exchanged in a standard interest-rate swap.

How to interpret it

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