Fixed vs Floating Revisited
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Get Rid Of Your Escrows - Buy Through Maturity
The Beauty of Bank Swaps
What Strike to Buy
Hybrid Hedging Strategies - Something to Consider
Cap and Floor Pricer
Lower Your Swap Rate Today - Blend and Extend
Quarterly Interest Rate Webinar
Hedging Falling Rates
Forward Curve
Freddie Defeasance vs Yield Maintenance
Swaptions for Construction Loans
Swaps for Construction Loans
Corridors for Construction Loans
Collars for Construction Loans
Caps for Construction Loans
Negative Defeasance - Use it or Lose it
Rate Lock Remorse
Borrowers Could Float Lower, But You Don't Have To
Buy Out Your Floor Before the Fed Cuts
Cap Costs - More Room to Fall
Cap Strike Audit - High or Low?
Forward Curve Archive
Are Collars the Solution?
Replacement Hedge Strategies - Part Two
Replacement Hedge Strategies - Part One
When Should I Extend My Cap?
Cut Cap Escrows in Half
Buying Down the Swap Rate
Transitioning Swaps to SOFR
Defeasance Fees
Parties to a Defeasance and Their Roles
Mitigating Prepayment Penalties
LIBOR Transition – What Happens to Your Hedge by June 2023?
What Is a REMIC and How Does It Play Into My Defeasance?
If I Can Lock in Fixed Below My Floating Rate - Should I?
Can My Cap Provider Afford to Pay Me?
How to Easily Calculate Agency Yield Maintenance
Paid Off the Loan But What About the Cap?
Buying a Cap Below the Floor? Learn About the Flooridor
Buying Out the Floor
Negotiate Your Interest Rate Floor Before the Fed Cuts
The Pensford Defeasance Difference
The Defeasance Process – Required Items
Defeasance Kick Off – Delivering the Notice
Hedging Your Fixed Rate Financing With The Swaption Corridor
The Capped Corridor - An Alternative to the Vanilla Interest Rate Cap
Defeasance Without The Premium?
What Is a Long Form Confirmation?
Defeasance vs Yield Maintenance: Differences Explained
Where To Send Your Cap Payouts
Two Day Defeasance Closing Process
What About Collars?
Cashflow Constrained? Step Up the Swap
Don't Underestimate the Prepayment
Market Volatility & What To Do With a Worthless Cap
Term SOFR vs Daily Simple SOFR - What’s the Difference?
Fixed vs. Float Analysis
LIBOR vs SOFR
Negative Swap Spreads
Yield Curve Inversion Study
Hedging Prime
Fixed Below Floating – No Brainer?
Optimizing Debt Strategies
Refi Analysis
Cap Provider Rating Requirements – Update
Swaps 201 – Buying Out the Floor
Interest Rate Caps 101
Time Value Impact on Cap Pricing
Rating Requirement Impact on Caps
Cap Timeline
Synthetic Fixed Rate
Agency SOFR Caps
Swaps 101
Bank Swaps vs CMBS Swaps
Swap Invoice Explanation
Regional Bank Swaps
Forbearance and Hedges
Collars 101
Swaptions 101 - A Resource For Commercial Real Estate Borrowers
Corridors For Dummies
Prevent Prepayment Penalties From Increasing with Swaptions
SOFR Transition FAQs, Timeline and Events
Existing LIBOR Cap or Swap? What to know about the 2020 LIBOR Fallback Protocol
ISDA SOFR - The Fallback For LIBOR Caps and Swaps
SOFR Rates For Dummies - A Helpful Overview in Layman's Terms
What Is BSBY (Bloomberg’s Short-Term Bank Yield) Index?
What Is An LEI (Legal Entity Identifier)?
ISDA Negotiation - Why It's Important
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Fixed vs Floating Revisited
Over the past couple of years, many borrowers have opted for fixed rate debt to maximize proceeds and/or reduce interest rate exposure. However, long time readers may also recall the following...
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