Bank of America creates innovative risk management strategies and products to help corporations and other organizations manage interest rate exposures in keeping with their overall financial objectives.

We work with our clients to develop strategies that meet the need at hand – from eliminating interest rate volatility to taking advantage of volatility to enhance yield. Derivatives are employed to change the nature of the underlying exposure, allowing a company to create a profile that would otherwise not be available to them.

Who can benefit

• Derivative products can be employed by large and mid–sized companies, financial institutions, governments, asset managers, hedge funds and individuals to manage exposure and take advantage of interest rate movements

Capabilities

Products and services

• Wide range of customized solutions to meet your organization’s financial objectives
• Ability to structure financial profiles to meet specific objectives and identify the lowest cost source of funds
• Ability to monetize the value of your company’s market view, either in an enhanced yield or a lower interest cost
• Tools to help assess alternative funding sources on an equivalent basis
• Derivative products covering the full range of structures: over–the–counter (OTC) swaps, basis swaps, options and structured transactions
• Sophisticated trading capability with strong market presence
• Expertise in addressing both the price exposure and tax and accounting ramifications of derivative structures
• Research analysts and economists covering financial, economic and political developments for more than 40 countries worldwide
• Seamless execution locally and globally
• Municipal derivative structures to enable municipalities and not–for–profit organizations to access the lowest cost of funds, while managing the interest rate risk safely and cost effectively
• Private website, bofa.com/capitalmarkets, for registered clients only, providing a variety of analytical tools, including graphs, historical pricing information, extensive economic research and trading and hedging ideas