Common Contracts
1 similar Total Return Swap Agreement contracts
Learning CurveTotal Return Swap Agreement • June 27th, 2004
A total return swap (TRS), sometimes known as a total rate of return swap or TR swap, is an agreement between two parties that exchanges the total return from a financial asset between them. This is designed to transfer the credit risk from one party to the other. It is one of the principal instruments used by banks and other financial instruments to manage their credit risk exposure, and as such is a credit derivative. They are used as credit risk management tools, and also as synthetic repo instruments for funding purposes. One definition of a TRS is given in Francis etal. (1999), which states that a TRS is a swap agreement in which the total return of a bank loan or credit-sensitive security is exchanged for some other cash flow, usually tied to Libor or some other loan or credit-sensitive security.
