Author Archives: Franck Albert

About Franck Albert

X-Pont (1994 promotion), Franck Albert is a former exotic options trader for HSBC in Paris and BNP Paribas in London. From January 2009 to April 2016, he has been head of the quantitative fixed income risk team at BNP Paribas London, before joining CRZ Pricing as co-founder.

CRZ Pricer Release 25.0.0

By | 23 January 2025

Common [New] Migrated to .NET 8 / C# 12. Expect 15% performance improvement (except I/O) IR [New] Added Cap/Floor periodicity field in Blotter/Market data analysis/SDR views. This is an additional parameter required for cap/floors vs OIS. Previously, it was assumed to be the same as the swap floating leg periodicity. [Bug] floating loan payment gap… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 24.1.6

By | 7 January 2025

Common [New] Added a portfolio reconciliation tool allowing to update the deals in database from a file [New] Flat file now supports all option payoffs, added payoffs with two strikes or digits IR [Bug] IR Vol smoothing relative value failed in version 24.1.5 [Bug] Repo trade could fail in version 24.1.5

CRZ Pricer Release 24.1.4

By | 28 November 2024

Common [New] Added bulk deal transformations (Reverse, Asset swaps, delta hedges, future underlyings) in portfolio content view [New] In cap & floor and asset option blotters, added the ability to calculate spread or fly ratios [New] In Historical VaR, it is now possible to exclude manually some dates from VaR contribution [New] Repo haircut can… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 24.1.2

By | 5 November 2024

Common [New] It is now possible to specify numerical precision in portfolio views [New] It is now possible to specify a result currency different from reporting currency in portfolio views IR [New] In swaption blotter, added the ability to calculate spread or fly ratios [New] In spot IR swap and Inflation swap market data analysis… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 24.0.19

By | 18 September 2024

Common [Bug] VaR optimization through risk-explained could be wrong (return results based on risk-explained instead of true PV) when there are several computation sets (Measures Granularity != None) IR [New] Callable deals now support exercise dates other than schedule dates. American options parsed from Bloomberg or ICE have a monthly exercise calendar [New] In ‘bulk… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 24.0.16

By | 14 August 2024

Common [Bug] Deleting market data in ‘Market Data Bulk Operations’ could fail (only in v24.0.15) EQ [New] Equity indices can now be decomposed into their constituents CR [New] Improved credit curve stripping in the case where recovery is different from ISDA recovery IR [New] Bond option now takes Z-Spread bond adjustment into account [Bug] Callable… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 24.0.13

By | 7 June 2024

Common [New] Flat File, added a QuoteType field for bonds, bond options and CDS indices [Bug] Add market data from files. One market data in error could cause other curves not to be contributed IR [Bug] Bond TRS price was wrong when first fixing date is in the past API [New] Bond price conversion methods… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 24.0.12

By | 24 May 2024

Common [New] Bond idiosyncratic adjustment is now available also for exotic bonds (determined thanks to Pricing Params > Adjust Securities) [New] Change of market structure (Save as market in Risk Representation) now also updates inherited markets [New] VaR optimization through risk-explained is now very reliable thanks to dynamic selection of worst scenarios  (used to be… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 24.0.8

By | 19 April 2024

Common [New] Add market data from files: one can now append existing secondary tables CC [New] Cryptocurrencies are now supported in FRTB Capital measures [Bug] Future options supported only monthly tenors CR [New] Added calibration of Seniority recovery ratios in credit curve contribution view [New] Added calibration of Seniority recovery ratios from ICE DataX files… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 24.0.7

By | 10 April 2024

Common [New] Realized P&L can now be calculated between two different sets at the same date [Bug] Realized P&L display of PVs before and after each effect could be wrong, it is now optional [New] Added support of new SDR formats (using UPI FISN) Assets [New] Added a scenario to transform volatility surface into RR/BF… Read More »