Top India Mortgage Lender Executes Rare Trade to Hedge Rate Risk
- HDFC used trade to cut dependence on OIS to hedge rate risks
- Lender is the largest borrower in rupee bond market this year
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India’s largest mortgage financier used an unusual trade to hedge some of its borrowings against interest rate volatility as it sought to expand its range of tools to manage risk, according to people familiar with the matter.
Housing Development Finance Corp., the nation’s biggest rupee-bond issuer this year, used a so-called total return swap to hedge rate risks on a debt issuance which closed last month, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing private arrangements. The lender had been primarily using overnight-index swaps before, they said.