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Legally, a swaption is an agreement between the two counterparties to exchange the required payments.
The counterparties are exposed to each others ' failure to make scheduled payments on the underlying swap, although this exposure is typically mitigated through the use of " collateral agreements " whereby margin is posted to cover the anticipated future exposure.
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