✨ Financial Instruments Notes




10 DECEMBER NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 4529

TRANSPOWER NEW ZEALAND LINES BUSINESS

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 1999

21. FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS (cont...)

The notional gross contract amounts of interest rate swaps outstanding at balance date are:

LINES BUSINESS GROUP
1999 1998 1999 1998
$000 $000 $000 $000
Interest rate swaps 1,255,094 992,119

Cross currency interest rate swaps

Cross currency interest rate swaps are used to convert foreign currency denominated debt issued by Transpower into New Zealand dollar denominated debt. Cross currency interest rate swap contracts eliminate foreign currency risk on the underlying debt by determining the New Zealand dollar equivalent of the final principal exchange at the time of entering into the contract.

The principal amounts of cross currency interest rate swaps outstanding at balance date are:

Cross currency interest rate swaps
Principal receivable 781,624 1,170,492
Principal payable (753,450) (1,142,138)

Forward rate agreements

Forward rate agreements are used to fix interest rates on Transpower's underlying debt for periods commencing in the future. In the normal course of business Transpower enters into forward rate agreements to fix interest rates on floating rate debt for intervals of three months.

The notional contract amounts of forward rate agreements outstanding at balance date are:

LINES BUSINESS
Forward rate agreements (25,000)
1998
(134,000)

Interest rate options

Transpower enters into interest rate options to manage interest rate re-pricing risk. Transpower purchases interest rate options to minimise the impact on finance costs arising from floating rate debt if interest rates were to rise in the future. In the normal course of Transpower's interest rate risk management the sale of interest rate options is restricted by the requirement to simultaneously purchase an interest rate option of the same notional value.



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