Security

Complete overview of products and services included in the section Security

This list contains an overview of the products and services included in the Security section of Komerční banka. The product and service overview is arranged in alphabetical order.

• Cross Currency Swap

  Cross Currency Swap is an agreement on exchange of principals of two currencies and the interest costs relating to these. Party A undertakes to purchase funds in currency 1 from party B for a certain amount of funds in currency 2, on a fixed date and also undertakes to sell back the same amount of funds in currency 1 for a certain amount of funds in currency 2 at the same exchange rate and on a later fixed date, no later however than within one year from conclusion of the transaction. Over the course of the transaction, the parties mutually pay interest on the currencies, which they purchased from each other at the start of the transaction.

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• Currency Forward

  The Currency forward product is purchase or sale of one currency for another currency subject to a rate agreed in advance by the participating parties. Settlement of the transaction takes place with a forward value date (i.e. longer than 2 working days from the date the transaction is agreed).

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• Currency Option

  The Currency option product represents the right (option) to purchase or sell a specific amount of one currency for another currency subject to the foreign exchange rate agreed by the participants in advance on the agreed date.

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• Currency Spot

  A Currency spot operation is purchase or sale of one currency for another currency subject to a rate agreed in advance by the participating parties. Settlement of the transaction takes place as standard with a spot value date, i.e. two working days after the date the transaction is concluded.

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• Currency Swap

  A Currency swap (or also Foreign exchange swap) operation is a combination of two transactions, spot and forward. This product consists in sale of one currency for another currency with settlement no later than on the spot value date and buyback/resale with settlement on the forward value date. Both transactions are concluded at the same moment.

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• Forward Corridor

  Forward Corridor allows the client to implement a currency forward for an agreed nominal amount for a more advantageous exchange rate than usual for zero initial costs.

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• Forward Rate Agreement

  An FRA transaction(Forward Rate Agreement) is a contract between the bank and the client, the subject of which is an agreement on the future interest rate for a particular deposit or loan within a certain agreed future period of time, whereas no actual provision of a loan or acceptance of a term deposit occurs between the contracting parties, but only exchange of the difference between the interest agreed in terms of the FRA transaction (“FRA rate”) and the current market interest listed on the financial market in the agreed future period of time for the term deposit or loan, which precisely corresponds to the conditions of the FRA transaction.

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• Interest Option

  In general, an option represents the right to purchase or sell a defined instrument on the agreed date. In the case of an interest rate option, the instrument is understood to mean exchange of payments from the agreed fixed rate for payments from the determined reference interest rate. Interest rate option allows the buyer to hedge his or her position against increase or decrease of interest rates.

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• Interest Swap

  Interest rate swap is an agreement on exchange of cash flows denominated in one currency, which are derived from a fixed or variable basis. Party A undertakes to pay party B the agreed fixed interest on the agreed principal for the agreed period on the agreed maturity dates and at the same time, party B undertakes to pay party A the agreed variable interest on the agreed principal for the agreed period on the agreed maturity dates.

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• Mark-to-market Forward

  Mark-to-Market Forward allows the client to secure himself or herself against exchange rate risk and at the same time, limit the maximum risk of negative revaluation in the event of inauspicious development. The parties to the transaction agree on a forward exchange rate and on a rate limiting the maximum risk of negative revaluation.

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