CROSS CURRENCY SWAP:
The term cross currency swap means an agreement between two parties to exchange interest payments and principal on loans denominated in two different currencies. In a cross currency swap, a loan's interest payments and principal in one currency would be exchanged for an equally valued loan and interest payments in a different currency. This helps one to cross over to currencies as per their purpose of trade.
The main reason that why companies prefer the use of cross-currency swaps is mainly to take advantage of other comparative advantages. This can be explained by following example, as say if a U.S. company is in need to acquire some yen, and a Japanese company is in need to acquire some U.S. dollars, then these two companies could perform a swap. The Japanese company likely has better access to Japanese debt markets and could get more favorable terms on a yen loan than if the U.S. company went in directly to the Japanese debt market itself, and vice versa in the U.S. for the Japanese company.
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