Currency options
Crédit Agricole’s head of forex options departs
Andrew Soper leaves French bank to pursue other opportunities
Born again: Citi’s forex prime brokerage
After a $180 million gut-punch, the apex brokerage is now evangelising to amused rivals about the perils of mispricing
Skewing quanto with simplicity
George Hong presents an analytical method for pricing quanto options
Currency derivatives house of year: BNP Paribas
Risk Awards 2019: French bank hits options windfall in Turkey during currency crash
Japanese corporates boost forex hedging
Notionals traded highest since end-2012
New Chinese forex crackdown to hit corporate hedging
Despite new reserve requirement, dealers say ‘maturity’ in risk management is here to stay
Hunt for toxic flow hits one of banking’s old problems
Wider use of mark-out tools helps banks spot ‘bad’ trades – and also stirs debate on pay
LCH, CME or OTC? Forex traders weigh their options
Bilateral trading costs bite but dealers lukewarm on both firms’ plans for forex options clearing
Russian central bank slams ruling in $1bn Sberbank swaps case
Lawyers say shock court judgement in ruble options dispute “puts hundreds of contracts at risk”
Managing FX risk: How to prepare for the unpredictable
Sponsored feature: HSBC
Documentation concerns slow CNY forex derivatives growth
Foreign fund managers need clarity before market can take off, say banks
Natural hedges: swapping the City for New Zealand
After a decade in forex sales, Tony Beard now advises a Maori tribe on hedging
Currency derivatives house of the year: HSBC
Risk Awards 2017: Clever approach to options pricing buoyed UK bank during Brexit uncertainty
M&A mania: deal-contingents re-emerge but risks remain
Price of forex hedges plummets as dealers flock to offer high-risk, high-reward product
Shanghai to be first CCP to clear forex options
New service to debut in August, but liquidity risk has stalled other CCPs
Pricing options on trend-stationary currencies: applications to the Chinese yuan
This paper derives a closed-form version of a model with a trend-stationary, stochastic volatility exchange rate, using both a linear and quadratic trend.
Lenovo turns to dim sum market to reduce forex hedging costs
Rising cost of CNY forwards and tighter regulation encourage renminbi funding
Australia corporates revisit FX hedging after dollar slide
Currency risk management is now a major focus for Aussie firms
Swiss franc losses blamed on liquidity gap
Options portfolios were impossible to delta-hedge, traders say
Currency derivatives house of the year: BNP Paribas
Risk Awards 2015: French bank thrives on emerging markets and exotic risk
Risk solutions house of the year: Societe Generale
Risk Awards 2015: Bank arranged record margin loan in 30 days
Consultants fear mis-selling as forex brokers discover new options
Range accrual and Tarf variants too complex for UK SMEs, critics say
Options cutting costs for some cross-currency swaps
Dealers found a way to protect some cross-currency swaps from heavy new capital requirements last year, by adding foreign exchange options into the structure – but the powers of the technique are limited. Matt Cameron reports
