Depict the risks confronting an interest rate & currency swap dealer.
An interest rate & currency swap dealer confronts several distinct types of risk. Interest rate risk refers to interest rates altering unfavourably before the swap dealer can lay off along with an opposing counterparty the unplaced side of a swap entered with another counterparty. Basis risk refers to the floating rates of two counterparties being pegged to two distinct indices. In these circumstances, since the indexes are not absolutely positively correlated, the swap bank may not always attain enough floating rate funds from one counterpart to pass through to satisfy the other side, whilst still covering its wanted spread, or ignoring a loss. Exchange-rate risk refers to the risk the swap bank faces through fluctuating exchange rates throughout the time this takes the bank to lay off a swap it undertakes on contrasting counterparty before exchange rates change. In addition, the dealer confronts credit risk from one counterparty defaulting & its having to fulfil the defaulting party's compulsion to the other counterparty. Mismatch risk refers to the complexity of the dealer determining an exact opposite match for a swap it has agreed to take. Sovereign risk refers to a country imposing exchange limitations on a currency involved in a swap making it expensive, or impossible, for a counterparty to honour its swap obligations to the dealer. In this event, provisions exist for the early termination of swap that means a loss of revenue to the swap bank.