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Product Snapshot: CBOT 5-Year Interest Rate Swap Futures
CBOT 5-Year Interest Rate Swap futures fill a vital need for exchange-traded derivative contracts that reference intermediate-term swap rates. They offer institutional market participants a convenient means for acquiring and laying off exposure to plain vanilla swap rates
5-Year Interest Rate Swap futures provide a way to:
- Create synthetic portfolios that more accurately track actual portfolio exposures, when used in conjunction with other CME Group interest rate futures
- Facilitate the structuring of a variety of credit spread and bank credit yield curve trades.
Things to know:
- Trading takes place electronically on the CME Globex platform
- Virtually around the clock, around the world
- Complete price transparency and anonymity
- CME Clearing matches and settles all trades and guarantees counterparty credtworthiness
- Cash settled against the respective ISDA® Benchmark Rate
Benefits of trading CBOT 5-Year Interest Rate Swap Futures:
- Standardization
- Position scalability
- Trade scalability
- Administrative convenience and low operational cost
- Transparency
- High-grade credit exposure
- Capital efficiency