Forward Rate Agreements (FRAs) Settlement Workout
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Apply your knowledge to calculate the FRA settlement amount.
Transcript
This workout tells us that a trader buys a three by 6 91 days, Actual 360 I-O-F-R-A at 3.1% on a notional of 150 million euros.
On settlement, the three month IO Rate is fixed at 2.85%. What we need to do Is calculate the FRA Settlement amount. We are also asked Whether the trader pays or receives This amount.
We've got the three by six FRA rate of 3.1%, The UIO Fixing of 2.85% 91 days in the period and the notional amounts of 150 million euros.
To work out the FRA Settlement amount, we need to take the UIO fixing of 2.85% minus The FRA rate of 3.1% and we are minusing the FRA Rate because as the trader has bought an FRA, they pay the FRA rate.
We then need to multiply this by 91 days divided By 360 and multiply by the underlying notional of 150 million euros.
And That gives us a settlement amount of negative 94791.67.
This is a negative amount, which means The trader pays This amount because as mentioned, the buyer of an FRA pays the FRA rate And receives the underlying UIO.
In this case, the UIO fixing is Lower Than the FRA rate, which results In a payment from the buyer Of the FRA.
Now, we're not quite done here because the settlement amount I've calculated does not reflect the fact that settlement with RAs Happens at The start Of the contract.
So We need to discount this amount and we do that by dividing by one plus The U IAL rate For the relevant number of days.
So I'm just gonna put brackets around my calculation and then discount this by dividing by one plus The U IAL rate Of 2.85%, but I need to multiply that by 91 divided by 360 And that gives us the correct settlement amount of 94113.66 Euros.