Template:M tldr isda a swap as a loan: Difference between revisions

“[[End-user]]” swaps are implied [[Margin lending|margin loan]]<nowiki/>s from a [[dealer]] to a [[customer]] — customers use swaps to change their overall market exposure whereas dealers hedge to zero-out their overall position — customers have only market exposure; dealers have only customer credit exposure — this is economically the same as a margin loan — floating and fixed rates do not exist independently of principal debt investments — derivatives are tools to hypothetically separate them, but they must eventually be anchored to real-world investments, and these must be financed — even an [[interest rate swap]] is a [[synthetic]] fixed-interest [[Margin lending|margin loan]] made against a [[Debt security|bond]].