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Glossary
Banking
Asset Swap
In finance, an asset swap allows the holder of a fixed coupon bond to manage their duration by entering into a pay-fixed, receive-floating interest rate swap. In this way, they are swapping their fixed rate bond coupon to floating rate coupons, eliminating price sensitivity to interest rate changes and therefore reducing duration.