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 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 »

CRZ Pricer Release 24.0.4

By | 12 March 2024

Common [New] In Market Data Bulk Operations, added Data Points counter on market data CC [New] Added discount references corresponding to collateral being a non-remunerated cryptocurrency (e.g. BTC0). Futures and Future Options CSAs updated to use these discount references [New] Future adjustment can now be multiplicative [New] Added a scenario to convert future adjustment between… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 24.0.2

By | 7 February 2024

Common [New] Realized P&L view now displays PVs before and after each effect IR [New] Added pricing parameter to make callable bond mature at next call date Asset [New] Asset vol calibration view now supports flat file input CC [New] Added cryptocurrencies as eligible reporting currencies [New] Cash-settled products now support exchange dependent fixing [Bug]… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 24.0.1

By | 23 January 2024

Common [New] Scenario selection is more user-friendly [New] Refresh Markets button now also refreshes market data in the past [New] Illiquid issuers with neither funding nor credit curve have now their discount curve mapped to rating credit curve and CDS proxy factors CC [New] Added the ability to extrapolate the crypto curve with a flat… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 23.0.14

By | 14 November 2023

Common [New] Auto add required missing fixings from Bloomberg [New] Added support of Eurex OTC Clear yield curves (csv files) Assets [New] In Autocall, added in fine payment and bonus coupon [New] Worst of/Best of options now support American barriers. Reverse Convertibles, Bonus & Airbag Certificates now accept a worst of version [New] Improved asset… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 23.0.12

By | 3 November 2023

Common [New] Reduced memory usage in exotic pricing resulting in 15% performance improvement [New] Significant improvement of auto-differentiation inversion algorithms: major performance improvement (x6) on risks on asset options with AFI smile [New] Market Data CRZ Flat Files now support unordered tenors and strikes [New] File Inputs allowing multiple files now support wildcards (*,?) Assets… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 23.0.10

By | 23 August 2023

Common [New] Script-based templates are now saved in database as templates instead of scripts (making them easier to use) [New] All views with input files now support archives (ZIP and GZ formats) [Bug] In Task scheduler, changing time was failing [Bug] Market closure task failed to be triggered by the task scheduler EQ,FX [New] Added… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 23.0.9

By | 21 July 2023

Common [New] Improved calculation time when historical ranges of prices are involved [Bug] VaR could fail to calculate (in rare cases where VaR = 0) [New] In Market Data Bulk Operations, added tools to copy/remove secondary tables [Bug] In contribution view, secondary table entries could get duplicated each time the file was saved

CRZ Pricer Release 23.0.8

By | 27 June 2023

Assets [New] Added pricing of Best-Of/Worst-Of options on FX and Equity baskets Common [New] Users can now share blotters [New] Added support for swaption feeds where ticker logic depends on expiry/underlying (New USD Swaptions in Bloomberg) [Bug] Bulk historical contribution (in the contribution dashboard) was failing on Bloomberg fixing tickers IR [New] In flat file,… Read More »