Brazen : big banks, swap mania and the fallout A. Rashad Abdel-Khalik
Material type: TextPublication details: Singapore ; World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., c2019.Description: xxvii, 523 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9789811203121
- 9789813275560
- 9811203121
- 332.10973 AB BR
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | |
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REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 332.10973 AB BR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Mar2020 | T0064381 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-510) and index.
Following the 2008 Financial Crisis, news broke that big banks in the US were collecting hundreds of billions of dollars from non-profit parties. These enormous sums represented annual settlement and termination payments for bilateral contracts known as Interest Rate Swaps (IRSs). Starting in the late 1990s, big banks targeted non-profits for massive sales of all types of such contracts. Non-profits ended up being perennial losers, eventually owing enormous sums of money to the banks for nothing received. --
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