The swap market provides a number of product variants that enable you to hedge against different company risks. You can flexibly define the basic categories, Interest rate swap and Cross currency interest rate swap using the parameters nominal amounts, interest, and maturity term. Since the system allows you to define the conditions yourself, you can represent the most up-to-date swaps in Treasury Management. You can take account of changes to the nominal amounts and interest rates as well as maturity term shifts into the future or notice alternatives.

1. On the initial screen, enter the following basic data for the transaction:

For more information on this, see Structure.

3. In Customizing, you can determine whether the name of the trader entering the transaction is shown automatically.You can also enter additional information, such as the contact person or a reference for the business partner.
4. You can also branch to other screens for general transaction management Administration, Other flows, Payment details, Cash flow, Memos and Status.
5. For more detailed information on the pushbuttons, see Condition details.
6. Both cash flows of an interest rate swap can be displayed individually or together and provide an overview of incoming and outgoing payments. For swaps with variable interest calculation, manual or automatic interest rate adjustments are carried out over the course of the term and the cash flow is gradually filled with the current values.
7. Press the button to create nominal amount increases or decreases during the term. Repayment structures are created via nominal amount decreases.

8. To save the basic data, choose SWAP ® Save.

For more detailed explanations of the terms, see Basic data.