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  1. Overview The market for swaps has grown enormously and this has raised serious regulatory concerns regarding credit risk exposures. Such concerns motivated the BIS risk-based capital reforms. At the same time, the growth in exotic swaps such as inverse floater have also generated controversy (e.g., Orange County, CA). Generic swaps in order of quantitative importance: interest rate, currency, credit, commodity and equity swaps.

  2. Size of SWAP market • Notional amount of OTC Interest rate swaps reported by the BIS globally was US $137 trillion at the end of June, 2004 vs US $57 trillion at the end of June, 2001. • Notional global currency swaps were US $7.9 trillion at June, 2004 vs US $4.3 trillion at June, 2001 • Credit linked contracts were up the most to US $5.9 trillion at June, 2004, from US $ 500 billion at June, 2001

  3. Interest Rate Swaps • Interest rate swap as succession of forwards. • Swap buyer agrees to pay fixed-rate • Swap seller agrees to pay floating-rate. • Purpose of interest rate swap • Allows FIs to economically convert variable-rate instruments into fixed-rate (or vice versa) in order to better match the duration of assets and liabilities. • Off-balance-sheet transaction.

  4. Plain Vanilla Interest Rate Swap Example • Consider bank that has raised $100 million by issuing 4-year notes with 10% fixed coupons. On asset side: C&I loans linked to LIBOR. Duration gap is negative. DA - kDL < 0 • Second party is credit union with $100 million in fixed-rate mortgages of long duration funded with CDs having duration of 1 year. DA - kDL > 0

  5. Example (continued) • Bank can reduce duration gap by buying a swap (taking fixed-payment side). • Notional value of the swap is $100 million. • Maturity is 4 years with 10% fixed-payments. • Suppose that LIBOR currently equals 8% and bank agrees to pay LIBOR + 2%.

  6. Realized Cash Flows on Swap • Suppose realized rates are as follows End of Year LIBOR 1 9% 2 9% 3 7% 4 6%

  7. Swap Payments End of LIBOR MCB MCB Year + 2% Payment Bank Net 1 11% $11 $10 +1 2 11 11 10 +1 3 9 9 10 - 1 4 8 810- 2 Total 39 40 - 1

  8. Off-market Swaps • Swaps can be molded to suit needs • Special interest terms • Varying notional value • Increasing or decreasing over life of swap. • Structured-note inverse floater • Example: Government agency issues note with coupon equal to 7 percent minus LIBOR and converts it into a LIBOR liability through a swap.

  9. Macrohedging with Swaps • Assume a FI has positive gap such that DE = -(DA - kDL)A [DR/(1+R)] >0 if rates rise. Suppose choose to hedge with 10-year swaps. Fixed-rate payments are equivalent to payments on a 10-year T-bond. Floating-rate payments repriced to LIBOR every year. Changes in swap value DS, depend on duration difference (D10 - D1). DS = -(DFixed - DFloat) × NS × [DR/(1+R)]

  10. Macrohedging (continued) • Optimal notional value requires DS = DE -(DFixed - DFloat) × NS × [DR/(1+R)] = -(DA - kDL) × A × [DR/(1+R)] NS = [(DA - kDL) × A]/(DFixed - DFloat)

  11. Pricing an Interest Rate Swap* • Example: • Assume 4-year swap with fixed payments at end of year. • We derive expected one-year rates from the on-the-run yield curve treating the individual payments as separate zero-coupon bonds and iterating forward.

  12. Solving the Discount Yield Curve* P1= 108/(1+R1) = 100 ==> R1 = 8% ==> d1= 8% P2 = 9/(1+R2) + 109/(1+R2)2 = 100 ==> R2 = 9% 9/(1+d1) + 109/(1+d2)2 = 100 ==> d2 = 9.045% Similarly, d3 = 9.58% and d4 = 10.147%

  13. Solving Implied Forward Rates* d1 = 8% ==> E(r1) = 8% 1+ E(r2) = (1+d2)2/(1+d1) ==> E(r2) = 10.1% 1+ E(r3) = (1+d3)3/(1+d2)2 ==> E(r3) = 10.658% 1+ E(r4) = (1+d4)4/(1+d3)3 ==> E(r4) = 11.866%

  14. Currency Swaps • Fixed-Fixed • Example: Canadian FI with fixed-rate assets denominated in dollars, partly financed with £50 million in 4-year 10 percent (fixed) notes. By comparison, U.K. bank has assets partly funded by $100 million 4-year 10 percent notes. • Solution: Enter into currency swap.

  15. Cash Flows from Swap

  16. Fixed-Floating + Currency • Fixed-Floating currency swaps. • Allows hedging of interest rate and currency exposures simultaneously

  17. Credit Swaps • Credit swaps designed to hedge credit risk. • Total return swap • A swap involving an obligation to pay interest at a specific fixed or floating rate for payments representing the total return on a specific amount. • Pure credit swap • A swap by which an FI receives the par value of the loan on default in return for paying a periodic swap fee. • Interest-rate sensitive element stripped out leaving only the credit risk.

  18. Swaps and Credit Risk Concerns • Credit risk concerns partly mitigated by netting of swap payments. • Netting by novation • When there are many contracts between parties. • Payment flows are interest and not principal. • Standby letters of credit may be required. • Greenspan claims that credit swap market has helped strengthen the banking system’s ability to deal with recession

  19. Pertinent Websites BIS www.bis.org Moody’s Investor Services www.moodys.com

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