foreign exchange swap

It recycled an additional $300 million of reserves as investment in foreign exchange swaps and options contracts, the fund said.

A foreign exchange swap consists of two legs:

The most common use of foreign exchange swaps is for institutions to fund their foreign exchange balances.

Open Market Operations consist of repurchase and reverse repurchase transactions, outright transactions, and foreign exchange swaps.

A foreign exchange swap should not be confused with a currency swap, which is a much rarer, long term transaction, governed by a slightly different set of rules.

The euro money market products are short term deposits, repos, EONIA swaps and foreign exchange swaps.

What has bankers perhaps most worried are the reverberations that the C.F.T.C. move might have in the $1 trillion market for interest rate swaps and foreign exchange swaps.

It also has beefed up its foreign exchange and bond trading, and has gone deeply into global stock brokerage and into interest rate and foreign exchange swaps.

The Bank provides an array of financial risk management products including foreign exchange swaps, currency conversions, interest rate swaps, interest rate caps and floors, and commodity swaps.

Letter to the Treasury Department re exempting foreign exchange swaps and forwards from regulation under the Commodities Exchange Act [PDF] - November 29, 2010.

Fixed Income: BNP Paribas' fixed income team helps companies hedge their exposure to foreign exchange, interest rate, and credit risks, primarily though the structuring and sale of derivative products such as interest rate and foreign exchange swaps, foreign exchange options and credit derivatives.