Swap & Investment Advisory

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Swaps & Derivatives

Callowhill is skilled in structuring, negotiating and independently pricing a broad range of interest rate derivative and financial instruments. Our experience includes advising on the execution of new swaps, assignments and novations, terminations, and restructurings for singular, matched-hedges to complex hedging programs and portfolios. Callowhill’s derivative expertise and services include:

  • Educating the board & staff on type, use, risks, benefits, costs, etc. of derivative products

  • Coordinating negotiation & execution of Master ISDA, Schedule, CSA, Trade Confirmations, Novation and Termination Agreements

  • Coordinating developments & completion of identification certificates, as well as Dodd-Frank compliance requirements

  • Advising on and ensuring transparency with respect to pricing and profit taking

  • Using industry grade resources such as the Bloomberg Professional Services terminal to provide live pricing & interest rates

  • Concurrently modeling and pricing swap with counter-party to ensure fair & market pricing

  • Evaluating & negotiating swap spreads, well in advance of execution

Our swap & hedge structure expertise includes:

  • Float-to-Fixed

  • Basic Swaps

  • Constant Maturity

  • Cancellation Swaps

  • Swaptions

  • Caps, Collars, & Floors

  • Total Return & Hedged Total Return Swap Structures

Investments

Callowhill assists its clients in managing the investment of funds and reserves associated with their bond transactions and operations. Callowhill’s professionals have maintained a strong pulse on the providers in this space, monitoring their preferences and appetites, as well as market data used to evaluate the competitiveness of these products. Callowhill’s principals have conducted processes to secure investments for project funds, capitalized interest funds and debt service reserve funds. Our investment advisory services consist of investment planning, transaction management and execution (including bidding agent services) and support. We have also negotiated investment agreement terminations on behalf of our clients.

Investments evaluated include:

  • Repurchase Agreements

  • Forward Delivery Agreements

  • Guaranteed Investment Contracts

  • Certificates of Deposit

  • Treasury & Agency Portfolios

  • Money Market Funds

 
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