Sentence examples for swap payments from inspiring English sources

The party wondered if that qualified as "subordination" and would prompt swap payments.

There was an important catch: the swap payments were not based on what the county actually had to pay.

The new law eliminates the tax-free aspect to this transaction, because it treats the swap payments as dividends.

But some regulators fear that such a large write-down could trigger credit-default swap payments, potentially sparking a broader panic.

The question now is whether the restructuring will trigger credit default swap payments on an estimated 3 billion euros in claims.

This week, two undisclosed parties asked the International Swaps and Derivatives Association to rule on whether various aspects of the Greek debt exchange would necessitate swap payments.

They aimed for a voluntary debt exchange that would not initiate the default swaps, fearing that payments on the swaps might set off destabilizing chain reactions through Europe's financial system.

For example, a company that has issued debt on which it pays a floating rate of interest might decide that, in order to guard against a change in interest rates, it wants to swap its variable payments for someone else's fixed rate of payments.

This market allows people to "swap" fixed interest payments for floating ones.

It is thought the move will be particularly beneficial for those with existing secure incomes who want to swap small annuity payments for a single lump sum.

If a deal is reached, it would involve a complicated asset swap and cash payments from Alibaba and Softbank — and bring Yahoo as much as $10 billion in cash to invest to reinvigorate its main business in the United States, people briefed on the talks said.