Should healthcare organizations alter their legacy fixed-pay swap positions and define whether and how swap products might be used?

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Many healthcare organizations continue to have significant legacy fixed pay interest rate swap portfolios. Most of these existing swap positions are long-dated structures that were put in place before the credit crisis and have remained in place largely due to the unacceptable termination costs.

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“Companies never choose to die, and yet many by not evolving are enabling that kind of fate.”