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 19.3.11

By | 24 March 2020

Common [New] On Options pricing & booking screens, added a button to exercise the option [New] In portfolio view, added ‘Bulk Exercise’ view to exercise all today expiries in a portfolio [New] Added RSI and Williams %R Relative value measures [New] Added Risk transformation to convert sensitivities to FX points into IR Delta [Bug] SIMM… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 19.3.9

By | 9 March 2020

Common [New] Added unit premium in all relevant booking screens (options and credit) [New] Added support of date patterns in file names. Ex: File_[dd-MMM-yy].xml as of 05 Mar 2020 is converted into File_05-Mar-20.xml [New] Added ability to aggregate deals in one global generic deal. Available in ‘Portfolio Content’ as well as ‘Local Portfolio’ views EQ… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 19.3.8

By | 4 March 2020

Common [Bug] Some portfolio views could not be loaded EQ [New] Added equity spot contribution (real-time and historical) from World Trading Data provider [New] ‘ JPM Equity spot and vols’ view now allows to specify stickiness [New] ‘ JPM Equity spot and vols’ view now allows to calibrate dividends

CRZ Pricer Release 19.3.5

By | 25 February 2020

Common [New] Added a portfolio view to compute historical VaR/ES detailed risk explain [New] Added a portfolio view to change counterparty, agreement and CSA [New] Added a SIMM back testing portfolio view [New] In ‘Add Deals from file’ views, it is now possible to launch an existing portfolio view with the selected deals [New] In… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 19.3.4

By | 3 February 2020

Common [New] In Future payments view, added flow schedule details on interest payments [New] In portfolio views, it is now possible to use preset pivot table views [New] Added Theta & Carry measures (Greek outputs) [Bug] Coverage column in leg details was not updated when basis changes EQ/CO/FX [New] Added pricing & booking of gamma… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 19.3.2

By | 14 December 2019

Common [New] P&L reconciliation (between explained and realized) is now available on XVA [New] On Portfolio future payments view, added underlying and notional [Bug] It was impossible to save a portfolio view as an Excel file through the API EQ/CO [New] Added event weights market data analysis view [Bug] Fixed some stability issues on Local… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 19.3.0

By | 23 November 2019

Common [New] Improved performance when loading from database thanks to compression at transport level [New] It is now possible to save a portfolio view as an xml file when the deals are not persisted (deal id <0) IR [New] Added support of OIS Futures (including SOFR) [New] Updated ERIS swap futures according to their new… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 19.2.6

By | 31 October 2019

Common [New] For Historical VaR, added the ability define shocks and to specify them through from flat files. This is also available for capital measures requiring a value at risk: FRTB IMA, CVA IMM [Bug] Add deals from files views were failing to start FX/EQ/CO [New] Equivalent notional / Portfolio replication is now available on… Read More »

IBOR Transition Workshop

By | 19 October 2019

Being at the forefront of the IBOR indexes migration, CRZ Pricing is proud and delighted of being part of this groundbreaking, essential, comprehensive training course on IBOR transition. In collaboration with Dantum Consulting, the course is endorsed by CISI (6 CPD points) and covers the main aspects of this transition. Claim your 10% discount for… Read More »

CRZ Pricer Release 19.2.4

By | 4 October 2019

Common [New] Added a file aggregator view allowing to build a portfolio out of flat files of different formats [New] Incremental impact is now available on most portfolio views [New] Scenarios are now available also on non-linear portfolio views (Capital & Initial Margin, XVA to follow) [New] Added Generic scenario allowing to shift any market… Read More »