Changes in interest rates can have a significant impact on the costs of financing. By using interest rate risk instruments, you can ensure stable financing conditions and thus more stable operating conditions.

SKB Bank offers you several instruments that can protect you against interest rate risk, and combinations of individual instruments are also possible. We will always offer you a solution tailored to your borrowing conditions.

Conditions for taking out insurance:

  • Signing of the Fundamental contract on transactions with derivatives.
  • Valid LEI number.
  • Signing of the Reporting arrangement (the EMIR regulation).
  • Approved overdraft limit for entering into derivatives.

Different financial instruments

Interest rate collar

An interest rate collar is a combination of the purchase of an interest rate cap and a simultaneous sale of the interest rate floor with the same characteristics as with the interest rate cap (nominal amount, reference interest rate, maturity).

With such a combination, the buyer can partly or entirely avoid the payment of the premium required for the purchase of an interest rate cap. The premium of the interest rate cap is reduced by the premium the buyer of the interest rate collar receives for the sale of the interest rate floor.

Interest rate swap

 

An interest rate swap is an agreement between the bank and the company on the swap of interest payments in the same currency, either at a fixed interest rate for obligations at a floating rate, or vice versa.

Applying this instrument, companies which normally borrow at a floating rate swap for the entire duration of financing/loan the reference interest rate (Euribor, Libor, etc.) for the fixed interest rate specified at the conclusion of the transaction.

It protects you against interest rate changes that are unfavorable for you as this instrument secures fixed financing costs.

Advantages:

  • You enjoy full protection against an adverse change in interest rate.
  • You can secure a fixed/known interest rate for the entire duration of financing.
  • No additional costs.

Disadvantages:

  • You do not gain in the event of a favorable change in interest rates.

Interest rate floor

An interest rate floor is an instrument hedging the option buyer against the falling of interest rates below the interest rate fixed at the time of trading (the strike interest rate).

The buyer of the interest rate option has the right to use the option in the case of an interest rate movement that is unfavorable for them and is obliged to pay the bank a premium for this right.

Advantages:

  • You enjoy full protection against an adverse change in interest rate.
  • The company itself determines the strike interest rate.
  • The company gains in the event of a favorable change in interest rates.

Disadvantages:

  • Payment of a premium.

Interest rate cap

An interest rate cap is an instrument hedging the option buyer against the rising of an interest rate above the interest rate fixed at the time of trading (the strike interest rate).

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