Summit to offer multi-asset exotics pricing

New York-based trading technology provider Summit Systems, a unit of the UK’s Misys, has developed a multi-asset derivatives pricing capability due for roll-out with version 3.5 of its flagship front-end trading system within the next two to three months.

This will allow Summit users to price up exotic over-the-counter derivatives that contain elements of interest rates, foreign exchange and equities.

The product, called multi-underlying structured trade, or Must, employs the market model Brace-Gatarek-Musiela (BGM), although users can also add their own proprietary models. The BGM model can represent a yield curve with directly observable forward Libor rates, and incorporates as many factors as required to price a trade. Summit’s Monte Carlo simulation implementation of BGM contains an extended variant that includes market variables such as foreign exchange rates and equity prices. Main factors are then calculated using principal component analysis with correlation matrixes.

“Must is an extremely powerful tool for traders whose business includes highly structured trades that are very difficult to enter – much less price – using traditional front-office trade-entry systems,” said Guillaume Aubert, director of business developments at Summit. “If you know you can accurately price anything and your trade creations are completely supported front-to-back, you have a real competitive advantage,” Aubert added.

Last month, Reuters signed a deal with US derivatives analytics company NumeriX, to offer a suite of exotic multi-asset class derivatives pricing libraries for customers of its Kondor+ flagship risk management system.