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Compare and contrast with the {{csaprov|Base Currency}} in the {{tag|CSA}}. Ideally, you’d want them to be the same. Ten points for style if you can think of a reason for having different ones. [[Goldman]] probably could. | [[Termination Currency - ISDA Provision|Compare]] and contrast with the {{csaprov|Base Currency}} in the {{tag|CSA}}. Ideally, you’d want them to be the same. Ten points for style if you can think of a reason for having different ones. [[Goldman]] probably could. | ||
So what is this all about, then? Well, swap transactions by nature are likely to have different currencies — cross-currency swaps are, anyway — and if (heaven forfend) you should be closing out a whole portfolio of them, then you will have boil everything down, at some point, to a single currency. Some are better than others — a G7 ones are more liquid and less volatile than others, and each counterparty will have a preference for its own home currency — an investment fund, the base currency of the fund. | So what is this all about, then? Well, swap transactions by nature are likely to have different currencies — cross-currency swaps are, anyway — and if (heaven forfend) you should be closing out a whole portfolio of them, then you will have boil everything down, at some point, to a single currency. Some are better than others — a G7 ones are more liquid and less volatile than others, and each counterparty will have a preference for its own home currency — an investment fund, the base currency of the fund. |