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Innovation in the US money markets over the past 10 years has spawned a rich variety of over-the-counter financial derivatives including interest-rate swaps, floating-rate agreements, caps, floors, collars, swaptions, cancellable swaps, putable swaps, captions and floortions. While the majority of the business in derivative products is done in dollars, the concepts are spilling over into the British, French, German and Japanese money markets as well.