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Comparing Eurodollar Strips to Interest Rate Swaps

While interest rate swaps and strips of eurodollar futures can serve as substitutes for each other, use of futures necessarily fosters some

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Accounting and Economics: Will the Twain Meet For Mortgage Originators?

nable financial analysts to understand and assess the economic health and prospects of reporting institutions. In the U.S. the Financial Acc

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Hedging With Swaps

A fairly common reason that shortcut treatment is denied, particularly if the swap happens to be a seasoned instrument at the time the hedge

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Documenting Interest Rate Hedges

The most frequently used interest rate derivative is the interest rate swap, and when used in it’s most common application — to swap from va

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Partial Term Hedging-The Eurodollar Alternative

Futures, however, have some rather unique institutional features. First, they are traded on an exchange so that parties to a trade are essen

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Impact of Accounting Rules on the Market for Swaps

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) only recognizes hedges as being ineffective for accounting purposes when the hedge gains or

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Hedging Portfolios

This work-around may still be problematic in that the various hedging relationships may not all be satisfied using the same hedge effectiven

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