Interest-Rate Derivative

  

See: Interest Option.

There exists an enormous, deci-trillion bond market out there. (Read: enormous volumes of interest.) Many needs. Many wants. Many tolerances for risk. Many planners for the future.

In an entity that is so large, with lots of buyers and sellers trading all the time, it'd make sense that there exists a robust derivatives market for calls and puts and swaps in whatever forms, based on streams of interest payments.

Global. Capital. Markets.

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