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Overview

A Forward Rate Agreement (FRA) is the simplest form of an Interest Rate Swap (IRS), essentially a single period IRS. The major difference is that FRAs do not accrue interest income. Since FRAs are single period instruments, the payoff is known well before maturity. The price of an FRA remains constant after the Dated Date of the floating leg, so there is no need for the legs to accrue. This document covers the details of Accounting, Data Management, and Performance for FRAs.

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Eagle has modeled FRAs as three rows in Data Management, each with its own Security Alias (10), linked by a common Primary Asset ID (14). Eagle  Eagle Accounting must be set up to allow duplicate IDs for swaps by following the steps here: in Allow Duplicate Cross Reference Identifiers Processing Notes.

Refer to Multi-Leg SWAPIDs Processing Notes for information about the unique SWAPID identifiers that are automatically created for the contract and each leg of a multi-leg swap.

FRAs should be set up and viewed using Issue Viewer or Security Reference Manager > Add > Derivatives > Interest Rate Swap, or Reference Data Center.

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