Asset swap

The term asset swap has a number of different meanings:

In accounting, it refers to an exchange of tangible for intangible assets.
In finance, it refers to the exchange of the flow of payments from a given security (the asset) for a different set of cash flows.
In corporate transactions, it refers to two companies swapping different businesses of similar value with each other.

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