Pricing
Totem extends pricing data to 10-year repos
IHS Markit service set to help banks with funding and swaps valuation concerns
Ferc urged to prop up illiquid natural gas indexes
A lack of willing price reporters is eroding confidence in key benchmarks
A new nonlinear partial differential equation in finance and a method of its solution
In this paper, the author considers a special type of nonlinear PDE that arises by applying optimization to some financial problems.
Capital savings from new IM regime elude dealers
Slow model development and approval processes mean banks yet to see benefits expected under margin rules
Addressing the eurozone’s ‘lemons’ problem for NPLs
State-aided securitisation of riskiest tranches could prompt purchases of loans, write ECB staffers
XVA reaches far and wide
Sponsored Q&A: CompatibL, Murex and Numerix
Quants head for the shop floor
Demand for technical skills is growing, but roles have changed – and some schools are not keeping up
Pricing and hedging options with rollover parameters
This paper consists of a “horse race” study comparing (i) a number of option pricing models, and (ii) roll-over estimation procedures.
European banks tire of CVA guessing game
Continued political wrangling over Europe’s CVA exemption increases uncertainty for dealers
TriOptima adds MVA calculations to XVA service
Three firms have signed up to use the tool, which calculates MVA across 100,000 scenarios
Stability ahead? Oil prices to tighten as expectations wane
Forecast suggests drop in crude volatility in months ahead
INE oil future to launch ‘as soon as possible’ – CSRC
China's first oil future is still on the cards, but its viability as a new benchmark is far from certain
Brent evolves to retain lustre
Introduction of Troll marks attempt to keep Brent as benchmark of choice
Efficient pricing and super-replication of corridor variance swaps and related products
This paper proposes a method for overhedging weighted variance using only a finite number of maturities.