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 17.5.0

By | 3 December 2017

Pricing [New] Added TRY currency (IR flows and options) [New] Added Non-deliverable IRS on CNY [New] Added Non-deliverable CCS on RUB, PHP, IDR. Now supporting 27 currencies [New] Legs with notional exchange or non-deliverable future are supported in multi-leg and callable templates, thus allowing pricing of multi-callable cross-currency/ND/zero-coupon swaps [New] Added Non-deliverable CCS product template… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 17.3.3

By | 25 October 2017

Pricing [New] STIR futures convexity now takes the smile  into account [New] Added support of zero-coupon rates as stripping instruments [Bug] Fixed issues on NDFs Contribution [New] Made contribution from Excel publicly available (see ContributionExamples.xls in installation folder) Portfolio [New] Significant performance improvement on historical Var/ES. Risk explained P&Ls are used to identify worst case… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 17.3.0

By | 8 October 2017

Pricing [New] FRNs (floating rate notes) are now supported in CRZ [New] Deal status is linked to the market status: a warning/error is triggered in case any market data required for the deal pricing is out of date Portfolio [New] Added KVA (Capital Value Adjustment) for MR, CCR et CVA charges [New] Upgraded SIMM to… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 17.2.6

By | 13 September 2017

Pricing [New] Preparation for NDFs on BRL, CLP, CNY, COP, IDR, INR, KRW, MYR, PEN, PHP, RUB, TWD [New] Added mapping of credit curves of illiquid counterparties to Rating/Sector/Region (previously only Rating) [New] Added the ability not to include the futures convexity in the 3M yield curves [Bug] Unexpected stub due to rolls on 28/02 could cause… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 17.2.5

By | 3 August 2017

Pricing [New] Preparation for new currencies: HKD, SGD, MXN [Bug] Fixed synchronization issues on live markets Portfolio [New] Added FRTB Reduced SBM view (see BCBS document d408) [New] Improved market loading performance on views requiring calculations on a range of dates: hVar, FRTB IMA, FRTB CVA IMA, Historical price & greeks Market Data Analysis [Bug]… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 17.2.0

By | 6 May 2017

Pricing [New] Added support of Wrong Way risk on CVA: a correlation between exposure and time of default is defined at credit curve level Portfolio [New] Added BA-CVA (FRTB) view [New] Added Marginal Impact of Risk on FRTB-SBM view [New] Added dynamic chart linked to pivot table [Bug] FRTB-IMA marginal allocation was wrong Contribution [New]… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 17.1.0

By | 3 April 2017

Pricing [New] Added Eris style Swap Futures [New] Added Deliverable Swap Futures [New] Add FX Futures and FX Future options [New] Added CSA specification. Previously, only perfect CSAs were supported [Bug] Fixed incorrect stubs occurring at end of month Contribution [Bug] In IR Volatility|ATM, price displayed was wrong due to cash settled convexity not properly… Read More »

Cash-settled European Swaptions

By | 27 January 2017

The standard market formula used to price cash-settled swaptions is a copy of the physical delivery Black formula, where the classical annuity term is replaced with a single-factor one (discounting on the underlying swap rate fixing at maturity). As reported in Mercurio and OpenGamma notes, this formula is not arbitrage-free. In order to get a proper… Read More »