Uses of interest rate swap

An agreement between two parties (known as counterparties) in which one stream of future interest payments is exchanged for another stream, based on a specified principal amount. Interest rate swaps often involve exchanging a fixed payment for a floating payment, which is linked to an interest rate. A company typically uses interest rate swaps to limit or manage its exposure to fluctuations in interest rates or to obtain a marginally lower interest rate than it would have been able to get without the swap.

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