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  2. Interbank lending market - Wikipedia

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    In July 2009 the Fed Chairman identified interest paid on reserves as the "most important tool" the Fed could use to raise interest rates. [2] Prior to March 2020 the reserve requirement for banks was 10%, but in March 2020 the reserve requirement was reduced to zero.

  3. Giro (banking) - Wikipedia

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    In the postal giro model, the paying party sends a request to pay the payee (called a giro transfer) to the giro centre, which verifies that the funds are available, debits the payer's accounts by the amount requested, and credits that amount to the payee's account. The giro centre then sends the giro transfer document to the payee, and an ...

  4. Actuarial notation - Wikipedia

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    By contrast, an annual effective rate of interest is calculated by dividing the amount of interest earned during a one-year period by the balance of money at the beginning of the year. The present value (today) of a payment of 1 that is to be made n {\displaystyle \,n} years in the future is ( 1 − d ) n {\displaystyle \,{(1-d)}^{n}} .

  5. Day count convention - Wikipedia

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    The need for day count conventions is a direct consequence of interest-earning investments. Different conventions were developed to address often conflicting requirements, including ease of calculation, constancy of time period (day, month, or year) and the needs of the accounting department.

  6. Risk-free rate - Wikipedia

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    The return on domestically held short-dated government bonds is normally perceived as a good proxy for the risk-free rate. In business valuation the long-term yield on the US Treasury coupon bonds is generally accepted as the risk-free rate of return. However, theoretically this is only correct if there is no perceived risk of default ...

  7. Accrued interest - Wikipedia

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    However ownership of bonds/loans can be transferred between different investors at any time, not just on an interest payment date. After such a transfer, the new owner will usually receive the next interest payment, but the previous owner must be compensated for the period of time for which he or she owned the bond. In other words, the previous ...

  8. Bootstrapping (finance) - Wikipedia

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    In finance, bootstrapping is a method for constructing a (zero-coupon) fixed-income yield curve from the prices of a set of coupon-bearing products, e.g. bonds and swaps. [ 1 ] A bootstrapped curve , correspondingly, is one where the prices of the instruments used as an input to the curve, will be an exact output , when these same instruments ...

  9. Bond convexity - Wikipedia

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    Convexity is a measure of the curvature or 2nd derivative of how the price of a bond varies with interest rate, i.e. how the duration of a bond changes as the interest rate changes. [3] Specifically, one assumes that the interest rate is constant across the life of the bond and that changes in interest rates occur evenly.