Structure
A foreign exchange swap consists of two legs:
- a spot foreign exchange transaction, and
- a forward foreign exchange transaction.
These two legs are executed simultaneously for the same quantity, and therefore offset each other.
It is also common to trade forward-forward, where both transactions are for (different) forward dates.
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