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Swap: AAA Banking

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1. Introduction to Swap

Swap is a contract between two parties to exchange periodic payments within agreed time line. Swap includes the contracts of exchanging baskets of securities or commodities. Concept of swap is simple; it’s no more complicated than swapping things among two parties. If one has commodity A and don’t need and other one have B commodity but not required. The best solution would be to exchange or swap these two commodities at reasonable predetermined price.

 Example ( How Swap works):
AAA bank has structure that is liability sensitive (means liabilities are re-priced faster than its assets). Because duration of its deposits is shorter than it’s loan duration. It leads to mismatch between its assets and liabilities.
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