Financial and business terms. 2012.
Floating-rate contract — A guaranteed investment contract where the credit rating is tied to some variable ( floating ) interest rate benchmark, such as a specific maturity Treasury yield. The New York Times Financial Glossary … Financial and business terms
rate — The cost of debt service paid by a borrower or issuer to a lender or investor. The rate is expressed as an annual percentage of the amount borrowed. For some notes and bonds that pay interest semiannually, the semiannual interest due to the… … Financial and business terms
contract for difference — abbr CFD A term used in the Financial Services Act 1986 to describe cash settled (See cash settlement) instruments, e.g. FTSE 100 futures, FRAs, swaps and spread betting. Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein financial glossary * * * The exchange of… … Financial and business terms
Interest rate swap — An interest rate swap is a derivative in which one party exchanges a stream of interest payments for another party s stream of cash flows. Interest rate swaps can be used by hedgers to manage their fixed or floating assets and liabilities. They… … Wikipedia
Reference rate — A reference rate is a rate that determines pay offs in a financial contract and that is outside the control of the parties to the contract. It is often some form of LIBOR rate, but it can take many forms, such as a consumer price index, a house… … Wikipedia
Reference Rate — An interest rate benchmark upon which a floating rate security or interest rate swap is based. The reference rate will be a moving index such as LIBOR, the prime rate or the rate on benchmark U.S. Treasuries. Depending on the security or… … Investment dictionary
Long Inverse Floating Exempt Receipt - LIFER — A floating rate debt security traded among qualified institutional buyers (QIBs) and originated by German financial firm Deutsche Bank. The receipts pay a yield equal to a fixed base interest rate minus the floating rate of a benchmark (such as… … Investment dictionary
Adjustable-rate mortgage — A variable rate mortgage, adjustable rate mortgage (ARM), or tracker mortgage is a mortgage loan with the interest rate on the note periodically adjusted based on an index which reflects the cost to the lender of borrowing on the credit… … Wikipedia
Variable-rate mortgage — A variable rate mortgage or floating rate mortgage is a mortgage loan where the interest rate varies to reflect market conditions. The interest rate will normally vary with changes to the base rate of the central bank and reflects changing costs… … Wikipedia
London Interbank Offered Rate — The London Interbank Offered Rate (or LIBOR, pronEng|ˈlaɪbɔr) is a daily reference rate based on the interest rates at which banks offer to lend unsecured funds to other banks in the London wholesale money market (or interbank market). LIBOR will … Wikipedia
