An Agreement to Exchange Interest Payments Based on a Fixed

question 14

Multiple Choice

An agreement to exchange interest payments based on a fixed payment for those based on a variable rate (or vice versa) is known as a/an:

• A) forward rate agreement.
• B) interest rate future.
• C) interest rate swap.
• D) none of the above

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