Exotic options
Remembering the range accrual bloodbath
Flatter US yield curve spurs demand for a product with a painful history
Risky notes replace easy money for exotics desks
Dealers insist ‘it’s different’ as flat US curve revives bonds that sank the Street in 2008
Autocall concentration weighs on dealers
Hedging headaches force issuers to seek new structured product blockbusters
Autocall dealers wary of Nikkei volatility surge
Dealers caught in danger zone as losses lurk on upside and downside spikes
ε-monotone Fourier methods for optimal stochastic control in finance
In this paper, the authors give a preprocessing step for Fourier methods that involves projecting the Green’s function onto the set of linear basis functions.
Natixis’s €260m hit blamed on big books and Kospi3 product
Rivals say French dealer grew business too quickly – with leveraged version of Korean index one source of pain
Polynomial upper and lower bounds for financial derivative price functions under regime-switching
In this paper, the authors present a new approach to bounding financial derivative prices in regime-switching market models from both above and below.
Is AD the answer to quicker MVA calculation?
Quants propose faster technique for Simm-MVA based on algorithmic differentiation
Podcast: Antonov on MVA, algorithmic differentiation and model validation
StanChart quant proposes new technique to compute MVA quicker
Podcast: SocGen quants on exotics calibration, machine learning and autocallable pricing
Deep learning techniques are being explored by the quants to speed up exotics pricing
How old calibration techniques can be applied to exotics pricing
SocGen quants propose technique to more accurately calibrate exotic options
Bounding Bermudans
Thomas Roos derives model-independent bounds for amortising and accreting Bermudan swaptions
Swap 4175: how a hedged loan became a €600m dispute
City of Linz v Bawag case underlines risks in municipal derivatives
Transform-based evaluation of prices and Greeks of lookback options driven by Lévy processes
The authors develop a technique, based on numerical inversion, to compute the prices and Greeks of lookback options driven by Lévy processes.
CVA with Greeks and AAD
Reghai, Kettani and Messaoud present new technique to calculate CVA using adjoints
Insurers testing exotics for Solvency II optimisation
Dealers tackle uncertainty over basis risk
Path-dependent volatility
Julien Guyon on path-dependent volatility models
The credit market – Still many opportunities
Sponsored video: Societe Generale
Local correlation families
Local correlation families
Filling the gaps
Filling the gaps
The value of a variance swap – a question of interest
Pricing equity variance swaps is well understood in the case of deterministic interest rates, but particularly for longer-dated swaps the stochastic nature of the rate cannot be ignored. Here, Per Hörfelt and Olaf Torné derive the fair strike when both…
Expanded smiles
Implementing models with stochastic as well as deterministic local volatility can be challenging. Here, Jesper Andreasen and Brian Huge describe an expansion approach for such models that avoids the high-dimensional partial differential equations usually…