Corporates eye cross-currency swaps as Euribor sinks

Since the current period of low interest rates began, much of the discussion has centred on the difficulties the buy side faces in generating yield for investors. For corporate borrowers, though, it creates the potential for windfall savings in their debt service costs.

Not only can they finance themselves at historically low levels generally, but a recent cheapening of cross-currency swaps by up to 30% has enabled some to synthetically convert their debt into euros to take advantage of ultra