Swap Credit Risk and Swap Spread
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- Current Credit Risk: The situation where one swap party is owed a payment now and the other party cannot make the payment.
- Potential Credit Risk: The possibility that the other party may default in the future.
- The amount at risk for default is equal to the swap's market value at any given point in time.
- While swaps are over the counter, the parties can agree to a marking to market method for controlling credit risk.
- Swap spread is the difference between a swap's fixed rate and an equal maturity risk free rate, such as the yield on government debt with a same maturity.
- Swap rates can be quoted as a spread over equivalent risk free rates; this spread can be interpreted as a gauge of credit risk in the general market.
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