Print | Email article to a friend | Last updated: March 31, 2015. Oxytocin is a hormone that acts on organs in the body (including the breast and uterus) and as a chemical messenger in the brain controlling key aspects of the reproductive system including childbirth and lactation, and aspects of human behaviour.
2. something that is exchanged. 3. (Banking & Finance) finance Also called: swap option or swaption a contract in which the parties to it exchange liabilities on outstanding debts, often exchanging fixed-interest-rate for floating-rate debts (debt swap), either as a means of managing debt or in trading (swap trading)
An agreement between two parties (known as counterparties) where one stream of future interest payments is exchanged for another based on a specified principal amount.Interest rate swaps often exchange a fixed payment for a floating payment that is linked to an interest rate (most often the LIBOR).nterest rate swaps are simply the exchange of one set of cash flows (based on interest rate specifications) for another. Because they trade OTC, they are really just contracts set up between two or more parties, and thus can be customized in any number of ways.