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Re: clean market value of a vanilla swap

Posted by Luigi Ballabio on Apr 10, 2009; 8:53am
URL: http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/clean-market-value-of-a-vanilla-swap-tp7273p7277.html

On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 10:39 +0200, Ferdinando Ametrano wrote:
> Net Present Value stands for... oh well... net present value of all
> future cashflows: accrued amount doesn't enter into the calculation
> since it's not a cashflow.

Yes, that was clear (to Kevin too, I guess.) But since Kevin writes that

> > I think we need to deduct the accrued amount from the NPV to get the clean
> > market value so that we can calculate the price of the swap as 1-
> > clean_market_value/ notional.   this seems to be what Bloomberg does...

...my question is: did Bloomberg introduce a definition of "swap price"
that we weren't aware of? And if so, should we code it?

Luigi


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