Suppose bank A and bank B enter into a plain vanilla interest rate swap in which bank B pays bank A fixed-rate payments on a certain notional amount and in return, bank A pays bank B variable-rate payments on the same notional amount for 5 years.

In that swap, bank A is the swap ____________, trying to hedge against the risk of interest rate going _____________ and bank B is the swap ____________, trying to hedge against the risk of interest rate going _____________.

buyer; up; seller; down

buyer; down; seller; up

seller; down; buyer; up

seller; up; buyer; down

buyer; down; seller; down