Swaption
Quants tout alternative carry trades for the ‘new normal’
Low rates and flatlining yield curves leave investors seeking carry in swaps and swaptions
IBA launches Sonia Ice swap rate
Test version of key benchmark is latest phase in switch from Libor to sterling risk-free rate
Benchmark reform goes non-linear
Terminating Libor will bring great challenges to the pricing of non-linear rate products
Swaption compensation consensus proves elusive
ECB-sponsored recommendations fail to rally market behind compensation exchange solution
Lagging futures market holding back swaptions RFR transition
“Elephant in the room” is hindering non-linear growth and swap market liquidity, say rates traders
Ice swap rate adds safety net with Tradeweb quotes
Inclusion of dealer-to-client prices will boost publication rate in stress periods, IBA claims
US benchmark switch splits swaptions market
Some users ignore new guidance to nominate SOFR for swap discounting
Swaptions compensation method divides market
US and European firms back redress payments, but disagree over how they would work
EBA relaxes modellability hurdles for market risk capital
Flexibility granted for assessing NMRFs on options, but constraints remain on committed quotes
Discounting delay risks swaptions mess – Eurex
Swaptions hurdles seen as yet another reason to keep June €STR switch date
Libor webinar playback: spotlight on derivatives
Panellists from Deutsche Bank, LCH, Numerix and Tradeweb on transition timelines, volatility and discounting
Swaps benchmark vanishes as traders flee firm price venues
Dollar Ice swap rate fails to publish in March rout; patchy Sonia Clob prices could delay term rates
CDX volumes roar upward on coronavirus panic
Notional traded volumes hit multi-year highs in each of the last three weeks
Fed funds swaptions offer SOFR alternative
Investors dry-run systems using familiar overnight rate, as markets wait for SOFR liquidity to build
Dealers cast doubt on swaptions compensation plans
Redress scheme for victims of post-Libor valuation change may fail due to “cherry-picking” fears
Goldman, JPM kick off SOFR swaptions
US dealers spearhead non-linear trading but patchy liquidity weighs on vol market ambitions
Bank disruptors: Crédit Ag taps AI to lure swaptions business
Machine learning model predicts client demand with high accuracy, giving traders an edge in pricing
One-dimensional Markov-functional models driven by a non-Gaussian driver
The aim of this paper is to move away from a Gaussian assumption and to provide new algorithms that can be used to implement a Markov-functional model driven by a more general class of one-dimensional diffusion processes.
The swap market Bergomi model
The combination of two popular volatility models sharpens the hedging of exotic rate derivatives
Interest rate derivatives house of the year: Goldman Sachs
Risk Awards 2020: US bank leads the way on SOFR, and gets creative to facilitate US insurer hedging
Derivatives house of the year: Bank of America
Risk Awards 2020: New home in Paris has brought more European clients to the Street’s most consistent markets franchise
Credit derivatives house of the year: Barclays
Risk Awards 2020: UK bank showed flow strength in Thomas Cook default – and product range is growing
Ice swap rate adds RFQ data; adopts Sonia
Industry backs overhaul of term swap rate to curb non-publication and hasten Libor switch
Opening the buy-side liquidity pool
Vikash Rughani, business manager at triReduce and triBalance, outlines a new approach enabling buy- and sell-side participants to optimise the transition of legacy Libor over-the-counter swaps contracts to alternative reference rates