Interest Rate Swaps

Course details

This course looks at interest rate swaps in detail. First, swaps in general are introduced, then we will be looking at the structure of the most common type of interest rate swap - the fixed or floating interest rate swap. We will also consider a variety of different structures, pricing and valuation, and applications - both risk management and speculative.

This course contains 20 lectures within 5 sections:

• Introduction to Interest Rate Swaps
• Risk Management of Floating Rate Liabilities
• OTC Clearinghouses
• Swap Pricing and Valuation
• Risk Management with Interest Rate Swaps